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The Creative Media Institute at New Mexico State University offers the Bachelor of Creative Media, available in either Digital Film Making or Animation and Visual Effects. The curriculum focuses on the art, craft, and business of storytelling. Students choose an area of emphasis, but they study all aspects of digital filmmaking and digital arts, whether they are aspiring writers, animators, directors, editors, or cinematographers. Theory and practice are integrated at every step as students manipulate text, sound, and images using industry-standard technology. CMI houses a state-of-the-art digital projection screening room, post-production lab, animation lab, and production space.

Vermont State University’s Bachelor of Fine Arts in Animation & Illustration provides motivated, talented visual artists the training in drawing and visual storytelling to develop a unique “visual voice” that prepares them for a myriad of careers in the animation and illustrator field, including picture book illustration, storyboarding, animation (2D and 3D), editorial illustration, character design, visual game design, rigging, 3D modeling, and illustrating graphic novels. Through hands-on coursework that demands original thought, and use of industry standard software, the program stimulates critical thinking and instills a passion for visual storytelling in animation and illustration.  Students in the Animation & Illustration program come away with a strong, diverse portfolio of relevant workplace experience. During junior and senior years of study, students participate in Animation Illustration Workshop, a series of practicum-based courses in which they provide animation and illustration services for local and regional businesses and develop personal projects. Classroom work is oriented towards authentic application; solutions designed to go into the real world and serve true purpose. 

We build worlds with characters to create stories that come to life. Our bachelor’s degree in digital animation has 4 core pillars: Drawing, the use of digital tools, production of animated short films, and a comprehensive professional training. Our degree uses the language of animation to create media products that can fulfill a variety of functions in society, whether it’s informing, educating, or entertaining. These products can take the form of animated fictional short films, instructional support clips, informative animations for digital media, visualization of architectural projects, process simulation, among others. They can also be used to enhance the image and give more depth to any private and state company, as well as Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). Professionals who graduate from our Digital Animation degree will be able to work in both national and international media industries, keeping high work standards, and will also be ready to become entrepreneurs within their sector groups and/or create their own studio/agency.

The Anhembi Morumbi University, founded in 1971, offers undergraduate, technological, and postgraduate programs in various fields, including Health Sciences, Tourism and Hospitality, Business, Law, Arts, Architecture, Design, Fashion, Communication, Engineering, Technology, and Education. It has five campuses located in the regions of Avenida Paulista, Vila Olímpia, Mooca, São José dos Campos, and Piracicaba. The university boasts state-of-the-art laboratories and unique features such as internationalization. Since 2006, it has sent thousands of Brazilian students abroad for courses and has welcomed hundreds of foreign students to its campuses, creating multicultural environments for learning. Anhembi Morumbi also contributes to the democratization of Higher Education by offering digital courses with multiple centers both within and outside São Paulo. Additionally, students engage in practical learning from their very first day of classes. Currently, Anhembi Morumbi is part of the Ânima Ecosystem.