Full Sail University

Full Sail's bachelor's and associate's degrees for creative minds include computer animation, digital arts and design, entertainment business, film, game development, recording arts and show production and touring. Regardless of which program at our school you choose, one of Full Sail's fundamental goals is to encourage the union of art and technology.

State of the Art Facilities - The most effective method of learning is to spend time using the same equipment and programs you will use in your career in the entertainment media industry. Full Sail's campus includes more than 100 studios, production suites, sound stages and computer labs, where students learn to create websites, animation sequences, 3D graphics, computer generated models, characters, visual effects and interactive games.

Accelerated Education - Full Sail runs on a modular schedule with new classes beginning every month. Students attend classes and labs 5 to 6 days, 35 to 40 hours each week. By doing so, students will typically earn a bachelor's degree in less than 21 months.

Industry Professionals - The typical Full Sail instructor has spent years working in the entertainment and media production industry doing the type of work that he/she now teaches at Full Sail. Collectively, instructors have earned hundreds of movie, record, game, television and web credits, as well as GRAMMY® and EMMY Awards and nominations.

Associate of Science in Graphic Design

Graphic design is everywhere--from magazines, clothing apparel, and billboards to websites, corporate branding, and logo design. Over the course of 13 months, you'll study subjects and techniques such as:

• Color theory
• Corporate branding
• Design and art theory
• Logos and symbols
• Typography
• Page layout
• And much more

Develop a personal portfolio that represents your design strengths to employers, and be prepared to begin your career and lead the way to the future of graphic design.

Bachelor of Science in Computer Animation

Full Sail's Bachelor of Science in Computer Animation program features intense, real-world training, getting students ready to make a mark on the growing 3D animation industry. Learning how to bring creations to life in the same software package used for major motion pictures and top selling video games. Courses include:

• Animation production
• Character design and creation
• Art history
• Demo reel creation

Full Sail graduates have helped to create the visuals for animated films such as Ant Bully, Pixar's Cars and The Incredibles and blockbuster films like X-Men 3.

Bachelor of Science in Digital Arts & Design

Much more than a design school or an art school, Full Sail's Bachelor of Science in Digital Arts and Design program is carefully created to be a complete digital education.

Courses are designed to prepare students for a career in digital art and design:

• Digital art production
• Digital publishing
• Interactive media design
• 3D computer graphics
• DVD authoring
• Web design
• Digital video editing
• Multimedia production

Students also are trained on a wide variety of industry standard software packages by professional instructors with experience in the field.

Full Sail grads have created websites and motion graphics for a variety of companies, musical artists and feature films - from WebMD to Kodak, ABC to Nike, Lord of the Rings Online to Punch-Drunk Love and Madonna's Re-Invention tour.

Bachelor of Science in Game Art

Get ready to bring game characters to life. Start with fundamental principles of:

• Computer-generated models
• Characters
• Animation

Our program focuses on practical applications of 3D computer graphics and mirrors the processes used in the game industry to create cutting-edge game projects.

Develop your talents while learning techniques like transferring real-life objects and motions into sketches and story-boards--then use these blueprints to create virtual models, animated characters and game levels.

Bachelor of Science in Game Development

Full Sail's Bachelor of Science in Game Development program helps get students on the road to a career developing, designing and programming games for consoles and computers.

Courses go in depth on subjects like pre-production and how to create game docs, programming and implementation, game play and level design, and how to design intelligent artificial intelligence.

Working in a real-world production environment with a team of programmers, artists and designers, students develop an entire playable video game from start to finish.

Full Sail graduates have worked on games like Madden NFL 2007, Call of Duty 2, The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar and The Godfather.

Bachelor of Science in Web Design & Development

Become a part of the new age of information as we help you discover the secrets of web development in all of its many forms. Using the most current technology in the industry, discover the building blocks of development including:

• XHTML
• CSS
• XML
• Flash and ActionScript
• Server-side languages
• Database structures
• JavaScript

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