For anyone applying for the BFA in Animation you must submit via the email provided below, the following portfolio requirements. The first deadline is January 15th, the second is March 1st, of the year you plan to attend. Late submissions will still be considered.
If you are not accepted into the BFA program by Fall of the year you are starting, you will have another opportunity to apply to the BFA program after your first year in the program. Any student not admitted into the BFA program can still earn a BA in Animation. Speak with the advisor for more information.
Requirements for animation majors
- Please submit only digital work in the form of digital file images in either .jpg or .png file formats for images and .mov files for movies. Providing links to a personal YouTube or Vimeo channel for movie files is also acceptable.
- Minimum 10 works/ maximum 15 works.*
- Digital slides accepted on Google Drive or Dropbox. Please provide a link.
- Digital slides must have a corresponding slide list with the following information: the title of the piece, medium, size of the artwork, and the date of completion.
- Letter of Intent addressed to Selection Committee (Explaining what concentration you wish to study (2D Animation or CG Animation, who you are, contact information, etc)
There can be multiple images on a single page, but nothing too small, please. Sketches and exploratory work, along with the final piece is encouraged. Rendered drawings are not as important. Here is a list, in order of importance, as to what we would like to see, specifically, for the Animation BA and BFA programs:
- Animation reel or animation tests
- Figure drawings/ gesture drawings (or sketches of people doing things around you)
- Animal drawings or sketches
- Sketchbook pages that you like
- CG models (figures or objects)
- Paintings and architectural renderings
- Character designs
- Caricatures or illustrations
Email these items to: animationportfolio@lipcomb.edu.
