Bachelor of Fine Arts in Animation

The Animation program has a national reputation and graduates have excellent job placement working within their disciplines. Students have won many prestigious awards, such as Student Academic awards and Emmys. Internships, Study Abroad programs, and field trips are a bridge to professional practice that allows students to visit artist, film, and gaming studios. Animation students at BYU get to work on collaborative projects with other disciplines and utilize software, studios, and other resources to complete their projects. Students are given opportunities to develop portfolios as they work on personal work, group projects, and major films that will help prepare for a successful career as an artist in Animation. In this major, students study figure drawing, traditional and digital animation, illustration, art history, and other topics.The Animation BFA program is a limited enrollment program requiring departmental admissions approval. Interested students should declare pre-major intent and complete DESAN 101. Based upon review of work completed in DESAN 101, students will be promoted to pre-BFA Animation status. Successful applicants will go on to complete the foundational courses before applying for admissions to the Animation BFA major through a portfolio review in June.Only students granted pre-BFA status are to complete the foundational courses and then may apply for the BFA professional program through a portfolio review in June.

Submit full documentation of all required transcripts. Some U.S. applicants may have completed foreign high school or college work. This work will need evaluation by a third-party credential evaluation company