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Digital Effects and Animation Technology

The Digital Effects and Animation Technology Program will teach students the creative and technical skills needed to embark on an entry-level career in the fast developing field of computer graphics for video, film and computer games production. These skills include storyboarding, 3D modeling and animation, non-linear video editing, compositing and 2D animation. Students receive hands-on training in a state of the arts lab with 24 hour key card access.

This is a two year full time program which culminates in an Associate of Applied Sciences degree. Any questions? Call or email us today. hindmap@piedmontcc.edu Phone number - (336) 694-5707

What’s in the Lab? Our lab contains 20 graphics workstations (half Mac OSX and half Windows 2000) With the following software programs: Adobe Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, Premiere, Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Media Cleaner 5, Discreet 3D Studio Max, Alias Wavefront MAYA, Macromedia Dreamweaver and Flash

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ASSOCIATE IN APPLIED SCIENCE DEGREE
General Education Requirements CL LB CLIN CR
You are required to take a Social/Behavioral Science Elective and a Humanities/Fine Arts Elective.
ENG 111 Expository Writing 3 0 0 3
ENG 115 Oral Communication 3 0 0 3
MAT 115 Mathematical Models 2 2 0 3
Major Course Requirements CL LB CLIN CR
DEA 111 Introduction to DEAT 2 2 0 3
DEA 112 2D Design and Animation I 2 3 0 3
DEA 212 2D Design and Animation II 2 3 0 3
DEA 213 3D Design and Animation I 2 3 0 3
DEA 214 3D Design and Animation II 2 3 0 3
DEA 220 DEAT Compositing 2 3 0 3
DEA 221 DEAT Modeling 2 3 0 3
DEA 230 Implementation Project I 2 6 0 4
DEA 231 Implementation Project II 2 6 0 4
DEA 240 DEAT Portfolio Review 2 4 0 3
Other Major Hours Required CL LB CLIN CR
18 Semester Credit Hours Required
ART 121 Design I 0 6 0 3
ART 122 Design II 0 6 0 3
FVP 220 Editing I 2 3 0 3
FVP 221 Editing II 2 3 0 3
ITN 120 Intro Internet Multimedia 2 2 0 3
ITN 220 Adv Internet Multimedia 2 2 0 3
Other Required Courses CL LB CLIN CR
Four Semester Credit Hour required.
ACA 111 College Student Success 1 0 0 1
COE 112 Co-op Work Experience I 0 0 20 1
COE 115 Work Exp Seminar I 1 0 0 1