Visual effects artists are experts in believable illusion who create images that are impossible to shoot in the real world. As members of motion picture, television, animation and emerging technology production teams at studios large and small, visual effects artists enable filmmakers to achieve their most ambitious visions.
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- Compositing supervisor
- Computer graphics supervisor
- Digital compositor
- Digital effects animator
- Digital environment artist
- Digital matte painter
- Lighting artist
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- Location/stage supervisor
- Look development artist
- Matchmover
- Modeler
- Pipeline/workflow technician
- Previsualization artist
- Shader writer
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- Surfacing artist
- Technical animator
- Technical director
- Texture artist
- Visual effects cinematographer
- Visual effects producer
- Visual effects/animation art director
Annually, more than 500 national and international companies and organizations recruit SCAD students and alumni. Over the past four years, an average of 8 out of 10 SCAD alumni responding to a survey were employed in their fields or had been admitted to graduate school within six months of graduation.
Employers of SCAD alumni include:
- Activision
- Blizzard Entertainment
- Blue Sky Studios
- CafeFX
- Charlex
- Curious Pictures
- Digital Domain
- Electronic Arts
- Industrial Light & Magic
- LAIKA
- LucasArts
- Midway Games
- Motion Theory
- PDI/DreamWorks
- Pixar Animation Studios
- Reel FX
- Rhythm & Hues Studios
- Sony Pictures Imageworks
- Tippett Studios
- Walt Disney Feature Animation
