- 2D & 3D Graphic Artist and Animator
- User Experience Designer
- Graphic User Interface Designer
- User Experience Tester
- Sound Designer
Digital Art and Design Careers
Make a living AND make a difference.
Digital Art and Design graduates thrive in creative, fast-paced work environments. The skills you ll gain in the program can be applied to a geographically diverse, broad-spectrum landscape that serves many purposes, including: entertainment, advertising, retail, information and education. With substantial flexibility in the degree of specialization/generalization built into the curriculum, you ll be able to develop portfolios in one or more of these professional media markets: Interaction Design, Motion Design, Visual Development, 3D Game Art, 2D and 2D Animation.
Possible Careers:
Interaction Design (web, mobile app, AR, VR, mixed)
Video and Motion Graphics (tv, web, film, corporate)
- 2D/3D Motion Graphics Animator
- Videographer
- Social Media Designer
- Storyboard Artist
- Sound Designer
2D Production Art
- 2D Character Concept Artist
- 2D Character Designer
- Motion Designer
- Storyboard Artist
- Graphic User Interface Designer
3D Game Art
- Concept Artist
- Texture Painter
- Soft & Hard Surface Modeler
- Layout (setting up environments)
Visual Development for Games & Animation
- 2D/3D Character Concept Artist
- 2D/3D Prop & Environment Concept Artist
- Storyboard Artist
2D Character Animation
- Storyboard Artist
- Character/Background Designer
- Character Animator
- Layout (setting up scenes)
- Sound Designer
Where KCAD Digital Art and Design alumni work:
- Disney Television Animation (Glendale, CA) Storyboard Director
- YouTube (Mountain View, CA) Visual Designer
- EPIC Games (Raleigh, NC) Concept Artist
- Idol Minds Game Development (Westminster, CO) 3D Artist
- R/GA (New York, NY) Interaction Designer
Where KCAD Digital Art and Design alumni have attended graduate school:
- Academy of Art University (San Francisco, CA) Master of Fine Arts
- Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing (Indianapolis, IN) Master of Science, Media Arts and Science
- School of Visual Arts (New York, NY) Master of Fine Arts
- Vancouver Film School (Vancouver, Canada) Post-Graduate Certificate
Resources
- Alliance for Media Arts and Culture Job Bank
- Bureau of Labor Statistics Multimedia Artist Career Information
- CollegeGrad Multimedia Artists and Animators Career Information
- International Digital Media and Arts Association Job Postings
- ONet OnLine Multimedia Artists and Animators Career Information
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