
484B: Visual Thinking and Organization for Animation (Drawing). 483AB: Advanced Computer Animation Maya. FT 488A: Interactive Animation is required in third year but may take it in second year if you have enough computer experience and are not enrolled in 483A (Maya). FT 484A: Visual Thinking and Organization for Animation. FT 483A: Advanced Computer Animation Maya. The required courses outside of animation (one approved directing course and one approved media studies graduate seminar) can be taken any quarter. All students must take 489A in Fall Quarter even if they are taking 483A. There are three options for the computer flight (1) 483ABC Maya, (2) 489ABA or (3) some combination of 483 and 489 but you must have a completed computer film finished to complete the computer animation requirement. If not, admission to the computer courses will be on a case-by-case basis and you may have to wait until your third year (with a finished C481C/181C film) before you can enroll in the computer courses. Note: You can automatically take the computer class only if you have finished your C481C/181C film by the end of summer. FT 152: Film and Television Sound Recording. FT 480B: Timing (or FTV 485 Legal Issues in Animation). FT 482B: Advanced Animation (Character Animation). FT 484B: Visual Thinking and Organization for Animation. If you have completed C481ABC/181ABC and have finished your first film as an undergraduate, you can start as a second-year student, but you will need to take the Seminar during the winter quarter. FT 484A: Visual Thinking and Organization for Animation (Drawing). FT C481A/181A: Introduction to Animation. To graduate, an animation student will need to have finished: Do not wait until your last quarter to fulfill requirements.
Availability of courses is not guaranteed. 482A: Advanced Animation (Writing for the Animated TV Series).482A: Advanced Animation (Character Animation).
188A: Real Time Animation: Puppetry Arts. 152: Film and Television Sound Recording. ** Courses are sometimes taught as a core course for MA students and may not be available that particular quarter to MFA students. OR another approved course from the Production area (Directing). FT 210: Viewing and Reading Media (to be taken in the Fall of the first year).
These two classes from the Cinema Media Studies Program (CMS):
489A: Computer Animation for Film and Video OR. 484A: Visual Thinking and Organization for Animation (drawing). Minimum course load is 12 units per quarter At least five graduate numbered courses (200,400,500 Level). Minimum total of 72 units (18 classes) for the degree. Minimum six quarters graduate residence in the department maximum 12 quarters residence. MFA: Film and Television, Area: Animation