Bachelor of Fine Arts in

Game Art

Online

Play your way into your future. The ability to combine imagination, technology, and creative thinking and turn it into an unforgettable virtual experience is a powerful thing. As a game artist, you’ll have that power to deliver a transformative experience to someone’s life in a format they choose, but you get to create.

Program Highlights

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

Online BFA Degree Requirements

To ensure our online Game Art students get a well-rounded education, RMCAD has designed an online curriculum that expertly merges artistic and technical courses to teach the true mechanics and analysis of game design, while making sure students are also introduced to everything from the graphics of game art to creative and technical writing. After all, a good video game tells a story. So learning to construct good narratives and build game strategies is essential.

CLASSROOM TOOLS

Our proprietary online learning management system gives students a structured yet flexible learning environment. You’ll receive continuous collaboration and consistent communication from RMCAD’s online faculty, who are also practicing industry professionals. Essential classroom tools for Game Art students are a solid grasp of computer technology and a vivid imagination. Your stylus will become an extension of your hand as you learn to explore the depths of your creativity.

GAME ART CAREERS

When you graduate with a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from RMCAD’s Online Game Art Program, you won’t have limited career options. RMCAD graduates are making their mark in the industry launching careers as:

3D Modeler
Level Designer
Concept Artist
Animator
Lighting Artist

And we’ll be there for you after graduation to help you find your path to success with a network of industry contacts that believe in the talent an RMCAD graduate brings to the table.

As a student in the Online Game Art Program, you’ll explore everything from 3D sculpting and modeling, to the strategy and psychology of gaming. Online instructors who are practicing industry professionals will teach you essential technical skills to help you bring your creations to life.

You’ll graduate ready to take on the exciting gaming industry with confidence and the ability to deliver exceptional visual narratives that will set you apart as an artist.

The creation of something that allows people to expand their imaginations and escape for a moment into worlds that would not exist but for your vision is a kind of magic. Make your own magical future with a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Game Art from RMCAD!

Game Art

Student Work

Get to know our Grads

Irene Skupsky

Class of 2019 / Fashion Design

I design for the powerful woman who wears garments with more coverage to inspire her.

Anna Vo

Class of 2019 / Fashion Design

My only advice is: be confident and no matter what mistakes you made just keep going and you will go through it.

TJ Howell

Class of 2019 / Fashion Design

This is my final hoorah so it’s very important that this kind of shows who I am as a designer and what my aesthetic and who I am most importantly.

Haley Long

Class of 2019 / Fashion Design

What makes me proud to be a RMCAD graduate is the fact that I’ve been challenged so incredibly much here and that it’s actually been applicable outside of RMCAD.

Candace Feren

Class of 2019 / Fashion Design

I’m proud to be a RMCAD graduate because there’s so many amazing staff here. They support you, challenge you and really push you to get where you need to be.

Mark Fitzsimmons

Class of 2018 / Fine Arts

RMCAD gave me the space to experiment. All of the instructors I had let me take not only what I wanted but what I needed from the class I was in.

Gregory Hayes

Class of 2006 / Fine Arts

Ten years later I’ve developed a skill from my professor’s random act of kindness. That little bottle was the start of me dripping paint.

Jenny Morgan

Class of 2003 / Fine Arts, Illustration, Illustrative Design

RMCAD was really influential for me, the teachers I had were extremely impactful and I still keep in touch with them. I think a smaller school like RMCAD can be really beneficial in terms of making connections and keeping those connections.

Kevin Tydlaska

Class of 2017 / Photography

“RMCAD did the biggest thing for me that every artist needs to experience—it checked my ego…you’re always going to learn, and someone always has something to teach you.”

Tya Alisa Anthony

Class of 2015 / Photography

My message is to be a humanitarian, to pull our moral imagination back to center.

Daniel Chavez

Class of 2006 / Interior Design

A lot of my technical experience is 100% Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design.

Rebecca Kaufman

Class of 2002 / Interior Design

Rocky Mountain was one of the first colleges I looked at – loved the program, loved the area, and I never looked back.

Paul Sullivan

Class of 2003 / Illustration

There is a lot I learned at RMCAD that I use in my career every day.

Lindsay Gruetzmacher

Class of 2010 / Illustration

RMCAD was great because it gives you a guideline for how to work in teams. How to create artwork for someone else, not just yourself.

Phil Montaño

Class of 1988 / Graphic Design, Illustrative Design

You can come back here and know they’re going to have the curriculum and programs you need to succeed.

Nick Spriggs

Class of 2003 / Graphic Design, Illustrative Design

I think often of my foundation work at RMCAD. Some of those lessons stay with me today.

Daniyil Onufrishyn

Class of 2012 / Graphic Design, Illustrative Design

It [RMCAD] taught me a lot about being a designer and being a better thinker – being more well-rounded.

Bill Gillies

Class of 2012 / Graphic Design, Illustrative Design

I wanted to immerse myself in an environment that would teach me, and that was what RMCAD was offering.

Cassidy Dwelis

Class of 2016 / Game Art

I wanted to be a part of the pre-production that goes into game making-things like the animation and the concept work and all of the actual game building. That’s why I chose RMCAD, because it was really the only school that taught the art side of the game art program.

Dalton Frizzel

Class of 2016 / Fine Arts

That moment was when everybody started to understand my work without me having to say anything, that was a moment where I started to feel like I was connecting with something.

Nina Caballero

Class of 2017 / Art Education

I think what’s really rewarding about teaching is when you finally see a person’s face light up.

Brian Nugent

Class of 2004 / Animation

What’s really nice about the RMCAD community is that it is a community. We’re all good friends and we keep in contact. A lot of the people that I was here with are working in the industry, so that says how important those relationships are.

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