Date: Saturday, July 11, 2026
Time: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. PDT
VFS All Access Pass is your exclusive backstage access to our #1-ranked 3D Animation & Visual Effects program and an opportunity to experience your future in 3D & VFX for the entertainment and game industries. You’ll attend an Industry Talk on career-building, experience Houdini and character animation demos, and more.
EXPERIENCE ALL THAT THE PROGRAM OFFERS
Learn about the program’s three specializations (3D Animation, Modeling, and Visual Effects), how you’ll graduate with a powerful portfolio, and how you can join an alumni that has worked on Project Hail Mary, Off Campus, Battlefield 6, and many more.
EXPERIENCE A CHARACTER ANIMATION DEMO
Instructor Jay Jessani leads a demo on the specialized art and process of bringing animated characters to life. See what it takes to animate characters for film, TV, & games and explore the principles used to entertain audiences and create emotional connections with characters across generations.
EXPERIENCE A HOUDINI DEMO
VFS is a Houdini-certified school! Get a detailed look at this powerful software, how it’s used to create explosive effects, and how VFS has integrated this tool into its curriculum to give our students a competitive edge.
INDUSTRY TALK: BUILDING A CAREER IN ANIMATION & VFX
Colin Giles will lead an industry roundtable with 3D Animation & Visual Effects alumni (stay tuned for this announcement!) to discuss their VFS student experience, career avenues for animators post-graduation, and how they’ve built their own successful careers as industry animators. Q&A to follow.
MEET THE HEAD OF VFS’S SCHOOL OF ANIMATION
Meet Colin Giles – Animator, Director, and Head of VFS’s School of Animation – with credits including Sausage Party, Eight Crazy Nights, and commercial content for Cartoon Network, Ford, the NBA, and Starbucks. Discover how Colin has created award-winning curriculum for VFS’s School of Animation through production-based & collaborative training models.
*Light food & drink will be provided.
