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Emily Carr University is BC’s premier learning institution for media arts.
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Our Film + Screen Arts Major is dedicated to the hands-on exploration of contemporary digital media, and historic analogue and mechanical processes and practices. Our 2D and 3D Animation Majors offer in-depth training in analogue, digital, and experimental animation principles, and expose you to every aspect of animation production.
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With our New Media + Sound Major, you’ll learn everything you need to know to produce visuals and sound for interactive environments, new media performance, instrument design, computer music, web projects, robotics and wearable electronics.
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ECU students are connected with communities of in-demand professionals, working researchers and cutting-edge companies. We prepare you for professional practice in film, animation and media, and for graduate work at the university level.



Projects that Emily Carr grads have worked on:
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• Da Vinci’s Inquest (CBC)
• Aquaman
• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
• Transformers: The Last Knight
• Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 2
• Power Rangers
• Paddington 2
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Awards earned by projects ECU grads have created or worked on:
• One daytime Emmy
• Three Clio Awards
• Five Vimeo Staff Picks
• Six Comm Art Awards
• Cannes Grand Prize Winner, Best Short Film (Amanda Forbis, animator/animation director, for When the Day Breaks)
• Canadian Screen Award for Best Animated Short (for When the Day Breaks, Amanda Forbis, animator/animation director)
• Grand Prix Zagreb (for When the Day Breaks, Amanda Forbis, animator/animation director)
• Two Oscar nominations (When the Day Breaks, Wild Life)
Some of what you'll learn:
• 2D and 3D character animation
• 3D modeling and texturing
• Concept art + storyboards
• Character design + layout
• Set design
• Experimental and documentary filmmaking
• Sustainable practices
• Critical Analysis
• Film Theor
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Facts + Figures:
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92% of graduates are working and directly supporting growth in British Columbia’s creative sector
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29% of those are creative entrepreneurs who own their business, are self-employed or are themselves employers
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76% of ECU grads who maintain a creative practice outside of a full-time job earn an additional income of up to $25,000 a year