This concentration, created in consultation with UNM alumni employed at the world's most prestigious gaming and special effects studios, offers a broad range of skills that tech companies are looking for. Working across the disciplines, you will be trained in essential software and computer programming, while taking classes in drawing, screenwriting, business practices, and video production. Acquiring a wide-ranging knowledge of aesthetics, narrative, and the digital media landscape, you will become the versatile and collaborative artist that tech companies want to hire. The concentration culminates in a yearlong capstone project in which students, working in groups, take a leading role in the creation of an original game or animated movie. A program in the visual arts that focuses on the study of the history, development, theory, and criticism of the film/video arts, as well as the basic principles of film making and film production.