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For 75 years, the UCLA Animation Workshop has nurtured creative and skilled artists amid the medium's growing popularity and commercial influence. Dedicated to pushing boundaries in animation education and practice, the Workshop fosters individual expression—embracing diverse approaches from conceptual to cartoonish, narrative to abstract, traditional to digital, mainstream to avant-garde. The program operates without a prescribed aesthetic, upholding its "one person, one film" philosophy that empowers students to chart their unique artistic paths.
Within the cutting-edge Walter Lantz Digital Animation Studio, graduate students master transformative CG technologies revolutionizing the field. Admission to specialized animation courses requires faculty approval, guaranteeing tailored mentorship throughout the three-year MFA journey. Filmmakers retain full ownership rights to their completed projects.