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Academics - Why DMAE? Digital Media Arts & Engineering
Master's Degree
Mission
The goal of the DMAE major (SDMAE) is to be one of the top graduate-level interactive, media and entertainment technology programs in the world. You will work on complex team based projects solving problems using professional tools and pipelines. This initial program is designed to teach leadership, creativity, technical prowess and design excellence in digital media. Earn a Master of Science in Digital Media Arts & Engineering (MS DMAE) today!
Why should I pursue a master's degree in the field?
- Develop specialist skills in a focus area
- Work with teams in a studio environment on consequential projects
- Refine and hone technical and creative skills
- Maximize your career potential in a competitive field
- Discover your leadership potential
- Accelerate your career
Academics
Earn a Master of Science in Digital Media Arts & Engineering for a 22 month, twelve course, 45 credit-hour intensive initital graduate level program. The development of these courses ensures that Louisiana can provide the skill sets conducive to digital media and software development industries. By addressing immediate industry needs where the knowledge demands on the workforce are increasingly becoming more technical in nature, we combine artistic and scientific training. With complex software tools such as Maya, Nuke, Unity and Houdini, the most sought after employees are able to flank both the technical and creative sides while still being able to specialize.
Undergraduate Minor
LSU’s DMAE Minor offers an interdisciplinary academic program to help students learn the skills they need for careers in the field of video game development, film, animation, web development and digital media.
Participating Departments
The Digital Media Arts & Engineering minor is a collaborative endeavor with seven campus units at LSU. These include:
- School of Art
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Department of English
- Manship School of Mass Communication
- School of Music
DMART Minor (21 hours)
- DMART is an arts oriented program
- Six credit-hours of required course work
- Twelve credit-hours of electives including three art courses in digital media and one technological course in digital media
- Three credit-hour capstone class
DMAET Minor (21 hours)
- DMAET is an technology oriented program
- Six credit-hours of required course work
- Twelve credit-hours of electives including three technology courses in digital media and one art course in digital media
- Three credit-hour capstone class
Equipment
Available for Classwork
This is a list of the most used software and hardware and is being added to regularly. The DMAE lab is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We also have license servers set up for the majority of software to access on a personal computer from home from a VPN connection.
Software
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Animate
- Adobe Audition
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Adobe Substance Designer
- Adobe Substance Painter
- Adobe Substance 3D Stager
- Adobe Substance 3D Sampler
- Adobe XD
- Autodesk Maya 2025_1_ML
- Box for file access
- Chaos Player
- Epic Unreal 5.3.X
- Epic Unreal 5.4.X
- Lastest Git
- Latest P4V (Perforce)
- Latest Rider
- Google Chrome
- Firefox
- Marmoset Toolbag 4.06
- Microsoft VS Code
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2022
- Motion Builder 2025
- Pixelogic Zbrush 2024.4.1
- SideFX Houdini 20.0.724
- Steam, Vive & Oculus drivers
- SoundQ 2023.5.31
- Unity 2022.3.8f1 LTS
- YoyoGames GameMaker 2024.6.4
- Nuke 15.1
XR Brain Bar
- Motive 3.0
- Live FX (Assimilate)
- NVidia Quadro Sync
- 2 x Blackmagic Design UltraStudio HD Mini
Hardware
- Oculus Quest 3
- HTC Vive
- State-of-the-art Alienware workstations
- Dual 4K Monitors
- Cintiq Touch Screens
- 4K cinema projector
- Access to supercomputer
- 1500 square foot Optitrack motion capture system
- 84 Roe BPv2 LED Volume
- Red Komodo & Komodo-X 4K Cameras
- Audio Recording Studios
- DJI Matrice 300 RTK Drone with L1 and P1 camera and lidar attachment
- Arago photogrametry system
- Faro Focus Premium lidar scanner
- Faro Freestyle II handheld scanner
*Adobe CC licenses are only valid on campus in the labs. Houdini, Maya, Nuke, Zbrush and Substance use license servers and can be accessed off campus. GameMaker requires a login username and password that you can request. More information can be found in the classroom GitHub repository.