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School of Film and Animation

Democrat and Chronicle features the work of artist Clara Riedlinger, adjunct faculty in the College of Art and Design.

RIT’s School of Film and Animation has a growing reputation in Hollywood and has been recognized by the entertainment industry for its high-achieving alumni who graduate with expertise in cutting-edge technology.

Each fall semester, RIT in LA students attend classes and gain work experience while living on the West Coast. Students come home with experiences that will help pave the way to a career in the entertainment industry.

The Associated Press publishes a piece co-authored by third-year photographic and imaging arts student Natasha Kaiser, discussing the effect of climate change on wine production in the Finger Lakes region.

By leaning into their authentic approach to the craft, Sean Malony ’12 (film and animation), Max Lopez ’12 (film and animation), and Cami Kwan ’15 (film and animation) carved out their niche in the industry.

The School of Film and Animation's Radical Cinema Workshop class gives students an opportunity to focus on experimental and alternative filmmaking methods.

If festivalgoers have trouble exploring the more than 430 exhibits at this year’s Imagine RIT, they can now enlist the help of AI by using the Imagine RIT Bot—a generative AI chatbot that’s like ChatGPT with a focus on answering questions about the Imagine RIT: Creativity and Innovation Festival.

For his final capstone project, Snyder, a Rochester Native, directed a short film called Turn Table. The film spins a tale of a young man with Down syndrome who goes into a record store to find an album but keeps getting pulled in many directions by different people who don’t quite understand him.

Flip Phillips, professor in the School of Film and Animation, and Philip Szrama, assistant professor in the School of Design, speak to VFX Voice about new AI tech used for virtual production.

Student’s access to state-of-the-art facilities and software, impressive faculty with industry experience, and a wealth of opportunities for hands-on learning before graduation has earned RIT’s School of Film and Animation (SOFA) more recognition as one of the top animation schools in the nation.

The inaugural Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies symposium, hosted on March 28, will feature original work by individuals from across the RIT community.

Students from various majors across RIT made a website providing wall-to-wall coverage of the 2025 Special Olympics New York Winter Games. This was the fourth year RIT partnered with Special Olympics to document the events.