Video Games and Virtual Environements

HIGHER GRADE EDUCATIONAL CYCLE

These studies provide the skills to establish the mechanics of interactive games in a wide range of applications. Students usually work in a multidisciplinary team composed of graphic and audiovisual designers, illustrators and artists, programmers and computer engineers, composers, and musicians, all coordinated by a producer to define the interactive game mechanics in accordance with current safety, occupational health, and environmental protection regulations.

Informació acadèmica

PROGRAM DURATION

The program lasts 2,000 hours (1,720 hours in an educational center and 280 hours in a workplace), distributed over two academic years.

Subjects – Teaching Hours

Computer media 99 h
Training and career guidance 99 h
History of animation 99 h
Animation projects 231 h
Integrated project 99 h
Professional project management 165 h
Principles of Visual Representation and Expression 99 h
Image theory 66 h
Photography 99 h
Animation techniques 198 h
Drawing applied to animation 132 h
Audiovisual language and technology 132 h
Script and narrative structure 66 h
Practice phase in companies, studios, or workshops 284 h
Programming language 132 h

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Completing this training cycle provides access to professional opportunities such as:

Producing independent animated films or participating in audiovisual or multimedia productions.
Creating sets, backgrounds, objects, and characters.
Developing keyframes to define visual representation.
Producing in-between drawings.
Modeling and representing elements that make up 2D or 3D animation.

ACADEMIC PATHWAYS

Graduates of this program obtain the title of Higher Technician in Plastic Arts and Design, specializing in Video Games and Virtual Environments which allows access to:

Any official university degree (preference is given to higher education cycles in related fields).
Higher artistic education programs in Design at the university level.
Higher artistic education programs in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the university level.
The professional workforce.

ADMISSION

Direct admission

Applicants holding any of the following degrees or certifications are eligible for direct admission:

High School Diploma – Experimental Arts Track
High School Diploma in Other Modalities, if Three Subjects from the Visual Arts Pathway Have Been Completed
Diploma in Plastic Arts and Design
Advanced Diploma in Plastic Arts and Design
Higher Vocational Training in a field equivalent to Plastic Arts and Design (for Access Exam Purposes)
Bachelor’s Degree in Design, Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, Fine Arts, Architecture, or Engineering
Diploma in Industrial Design
Advanced Degree in Plastic Arts, or Advanced Degree in Design, or Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage
Degree in Applied Arts and Artistic Trades in Any of the Specializations Established in the Curricula of 1963, 1984, or 1986
Exemption Resolution Recognized by the Directorate General of Vocational Training

Admission with Specific Exam

Applicants must take the specific part of the entrance exam if they:

Hold a High School Diploma.
Hold a Higher Vocational Diploma in a field equivalent to Plastic Arts and Design.
Have passed the Higher Vocational Training Access Exam.

Applicants Without Academic Qualifications

Applicants who do not hold any of the degrees or certifications listed in the previous sections may access higher-level cycles in Plastic Arts and Design if they pass both the common and specific parts of the higher-level entrance exam.

To take the exam, applicants must be at least 19 years old or turn 19 in the same year the exam is held.

Important Information About Admission Exams

Before applying and enrolling at the institution, students without direct admission must register for the entrance exam (common and/or specific). These entrance exams follow a schedule independent from the institution’s application and enrollment calendar.

ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES

To enroll in the cycle, applicants must submit an admission request to the school, specifying the program they are applying for as their first choice.

When the number of applications at the school exceeds the available places, applicants are ranked according to the following criteria:

Entrance exam grade
Average grade of the academic record (which grants exemption from the entrance exam)
Grade of the specific part of the entrance exam
Applications that still have the same score after applying these criteria are ranked using a tie-break number obtained by lottery.

Note: Registration for and passing the entrance exam does not automatically imply pre-enrollment or enrollment at the school.