Animation is a process that involves a broad set of skills, practices and technologies that communicate through motion, design and visual narrative. Students studying animation at CMU will develop the artistic vision and technical skills necessary to produce powerful visual stories, in a positive, supportive and creative community. The animation program provides students with a broad exposure to animation as an industry and as an internationally celebrated artform. Students can choose to work in a variety of media from hand-drawn animation, to traditional stop-motion techniques, to 3D computer animation. The topics they study will include character design, storyboarding, modeling, character and effects animation, and more. As students progress they are encouraged to focus on specific areas of interest while contributing to a variety of advanced production opportunities.