Online Multimedia Associate's Degree

This program is also offered in the classroom or through a blended-learning format.

Create Masterful Works of Digital Art with our Online Multimedia Program

With the online Multimedia program from Rasmussen College Online, Photoshop is just one of the many design tools you'll learn to use, making it possible for you to create your own masterpieces. Since the inception of digital design, the art world has changed drastically. The job market is now filled with lucrative employment opportunities for creative Multimedia Artists.

The Multimedia industry is thriving like never before. With the online Multimedia program from Rasmussen College Online, you'll be prepared for profitable careers in Publishing, Advertising, Video Game Design, or e-commerce. Our Multimedia program will prepare you to make money doing what you love best -- creating visually captivating works of art. It's a financially rewarding career, which allows you to express your creative talents. Start your professional art career today, with the online Multimedia program from Rasmussen College Online!

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What You Do in Multimedia Technologies
What You Will Learn


Earning an Online Multimedia Degree is Possible with Your Busy Life

By attending our Multimedia program online, you will have no set class schedule, giving you the ability to study whenever it's convenient, and you can take your courses anytime from anywhere you have access to the internet - at home, work, the library, or even on vacation. That way, you can take care of all of your responsibilities while gaining an education that will help you advance in your career.

Call us at (888) 549-6755 for more information about our online Multimedia Associate's program. One of our Admissions Representatives will be able to answer all of your questions.

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What You Do in Multimedia Technologies:

Once you have completed your Multimedia degree online, you will have gained all the skills you need to perform successfully in an interesting career within the computer industry. Below are just some of the tasks that Multimedia professionals perform:

  • Design complex graphics and animation
  • Create designs, drawings, and illustrations for product labels, cartons, direct mail, or television
  • Create storyboards for animation to map out key scenes and characters
  • Assemble, typeset, scan, and produce digital camera-ready art or film negatives and printer's proofs
  • Convert real objects into animated objects through modeling, using techniques such as optical scanning
  • Create and install special effects as required by the script, mixing chemicals, and fabricating needed parts from wood, metal, plaster, and clay
  • Create pen-and-paper images to be scanned, edited, colored, textured, or animated by computer
  • Create 2D and 3D images that depict objects in motion or illustrate a process, using computer animation or modeling programs
  • Develop briefings, brochures, multimedia presentations, web pages, promotional products, technical illustrations, and computer artwork for use in products, technical manuals, literature, newsletters, and slide shows
  • Implement and maintain configuration control systems
  • Make objects or characters appear lifelike by manipulating light, color, texture, shadow, and transparency, or manipulating static images to give the illusion of motion
  • Participate in design and production of multimedia campaigns, handling budgeting and scheduling, and assisting with such responsibilities as production coordination, background design, and progress tracking
  • Script, plan, and create animated narrative sequences
  • Use models to simulate the behavior of animated objects in the finished sequence
  • .and more

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Multimedia Technologies Job Titles:

Our Career Services staff is dedicated to helping you find a job within your chosen field. By earning your Multimedia degree online, you could find a position such as a:

  • Technical Director
  • Animator
  • Render Tech
  • Modeler (Poly & NUMBRS)
  • Storyboard Artist
  • Texture Artist
  • Character Rigger
  • .and many, many more!

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What You Will Learn:

As a graduate of our online Multimedia program, you will earn the same degree as students who attend our traditional, on-campus classes. Our curriculum explores Interesting topics that will help you support and contribute to the field of Multimedia.

  • Computer Graphics
  • Introduction to Multimedia and Computer Graphic Arts
  • Typography
  • Digital Publishing
  • Color Theory and Techniques
  • Audio/Video Editing
  • Digital Media Production
  • Web Authoring and Design
  • Digital Media Assembly
  • Career Development
  • Success Strategies
  • …plus, much more

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To learn more, call one of our Admissions Representatives at (888) 549-6755 or you can request more information online.