Game Arts Option - 3D Digital Design BFA

The game arts degree offers an innovative and adaptive curriculum that prepares you for a career in emergent fields associated with games culture, exposing you to the advanced technologies, interactive interfaces, and explorative processing necessary in game arts. While technologies constantly change, this option focuses on teaching lifelong skills of critical and design thinking and collaboration through a game arts focus.

In your 3D game design courses, you will explore:

• 3D modeling
• Sculpting
• Lighting
• Materials
• Effects
• Real-time game engines
• AR, VR, and XR
• Pre-visualization
• Virtual production

In this video game art degree, you will have opportunities to regularly collaborate with game developers. The game arts option complements RIT’s nationally recognized game design and development BS, offered by the Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences and ranked 4th nationally among Princeton Review’s “Top 50 Game Design Programs: Undergraduate Category” (2022).

Access to Invaluable Digital Design Industry Technology and Resources

RIT provides game art design majors with resources and facilities where they can get hands-on experience with real-world industry technology.

• MAGIC Spell Studios, a state-of-the-art media production facility, is a creative hub where artists and programmers work together to research and develop imaginative game projects.
• Computer labs in the College of Art and Design will provide you with access to professional-level 3D and animation software.
• RIT’s virtual production curriculum is driven by the use of large LED walls installed in MAGIC Spell Studios and made possible with support from an Epic Games grant.
• The Strong National Museum of Play, the world’s largest collection of historical materials related to play, is located 15 minutes from campus.

Game Arts Degree Careers

You will graduate well-positioned to pursue careers in the game arts industry. Alumni and faculty are the creative minds behind the environments, characters, and objects in games you know and love. Graduates have been hired by leading studios to work on games for all platforms. Hiring partners include Bethesda, Insomniac Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment, and Workinman Interactive.