Minor in Virtual Production

Virtual production has become common in entertainment media production for films, television and commercials. Its use is expanding into other areas including architectural/engineering visualization, manufacturing, product design, simulation and training, and live performances for music, theatre and broadcast. The curriculum includes virtual production techniques, storyboarding, visual computing, lighting and cinematography. On completion of the minor, students will be prepared to fulfill such roles in production as technical artists, lighting specialists, technical designers, digital asset artists in a virtual art department, virtual imaging technician/grip, pipeline technical directors and virtual production technical generalists.

Curriculum

Three Required Courses, 9 Credit Hours

Course	Title	Hours
VIST 172	Foundations of Visual Computing 1,2	3
VIST 225	Virtual Production Techniques 1	3
VIST 429	On Set Virtual Production 1	3

Select two of the following (6 hours): ¹

VIST 272	Visual Computing 2
VIST 325	Pre-Visualization and Storyboarding for Virtual Production
VIST 327	Virtual Cinematography and Lighting
VIST 419	Motion Capture Animation
VIST 425	Art Direction for Virtual Production

Select one of the following (3 hours):

VIST 370	Interactive Virtual Environments
VIST 372	Creating Digital Environments
VIST 401	World-Building in Games
VIST 432	Applied Perception
VIST 465	Video and Time Based Media
VIST 470	Digital Rendering
VIST 476/CSCE 447	Data Visualization
VIST 477/CSCE 446	Virtual Reality
VIST 480	Game Level Design
VIST 487/CSCE 443	Game Development
VIST 494	Internship

Total Semester Credit Hours: 18

¹ Must make a grade of C or better.

² Only offered in the Fall semester.

Apply

Applicants must have a 3.0 or better overall GPA and have completed less than 70 hours to be considered for the program. To apply, please email Johnna Lee at johnna2018@tamu.edu.