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Texas A&M Gains Stature Among Top Video Game Design Schools
Texas A&M's Department of Visualization is widely known as a fertile training ground for future Hollywood special effects professionals.
Visualization students Alex Parker, right, and Brian Smith create video games in the Learning Interactive Visualizations Experience Lab.
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Widely known as a fertile training ground for future Hollywood special effects professionals, the Department of Visualization at Texas A&M is rapidly gaining stature among the nation’s leading programs in video game design.
Since the Master of Science in Visualization program was founded at the College of Architecture in 1989, leading visual effects and animation companies like Industrial Light & Magic, Pixar and DreamWorks have snapped up its graduates. As it turns out, those graduates and their digital manipulation skills are also in increasingly high demand among companies looking to create the next “Minecraft,” “Halo,” or “Super Mario Brothers.”
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This article originally appeared in ArchOne.
