U-tad launches its first Degree in visual effects

The University Center for Technology and Digital Art U-tad The new academic year begins with ten new undergraduate degrees, higher-level and postgraduate training cycles in the field of engineering, video games, visual effects, animation, cybersecurity and digital design.

Among its new degrees is the first and only Official Degree in 'Visual effects' from Spain, which responds to the high demand for profiles with specific knowledge in this discipline as there is currently a large deficit of professionals. With the digital transformation of audiovisual content, visual effects (or VFX) have become a fundamental basis for practically all audiovisual productions, whether to create impossible worlds, to recreate the past or to eliminate everything that does not want to be shown.

Likewise, the new Official Degree in 'video game engineering', the first to be taught by a Spanish university, offers specific training to be a video game programmer, a profile that requires a solid foundation of software engineering fundamentals, but also knowledge about the creation of video games. This need to have programmers specialized in this sector and who also know the specific functioning of a video game is a traditional demand of video game developers.

In addition, U-tad launches seven new postgraduate degrees in the field of animation, digital design and cybersecurity: Master in 'Preview and layout' (focused on layout and preview for video games), Master in 'Motion graphics' (real-time graphics with Viz Artist), Master in 'Concept art' (pre-production of graphic universes for video games, cinema and animation), Master in 'Story art' (aimed at future storytellers), Master in 'Modeling' (character modelers in video games, movies, series or advertising spots), Expert in 'Comic' (professional comic creation), Expert in 'Ethical hacking' (specialized in cybersecurity).

Cycle training has also been reinforced with the new program in 'Administration of networked computer systems', which forms one of the most in-demand professional profiles today: those in charge of configuring, managing and maintaining computer systems (network infrastructure, servers and databases), guaranteeing the functionality, regulations and integrity of said business infrastructures.

Javier G. Algarra, academic director at the U-tad University Center, recognizes that “as a leading university specialized in the training of professionals for the digital content industry and with a strong relationship with the business fabric of our country, the launch of these new degrees, some pioneering in Spain, responds to the objective that we have at U-tad of training the profiles that the Spanish digital ecosystem demands, where changes occur at a speed that few educational centers can attend, through quality training, and closely linked to the needs of the digital industry in Spain”.