About Gnomon School of Visual Effects

Gnomon is a for-profit researcher in Hollywood, California. The college focuses upon artistic and puzzling training for careers in the visual effects and games industries. Founded in 1997, by Alex Alvarez, Gnomon was originally created to meet the training needs of industry artists, Gnomon has evolved into a more all-encompassing art school, offering structured programs and individual courses to those looking to become professional artists working on films and games. In March 2011, Fast Company Magazine included Gnomon in its list of the 10 Most Innovative Companies in Film.

Gnomon offers two-, and four-year (three-year optional by waiving summer break) training options in Entertainment Design and Digital Production, as without difficulty as individual and online courses, various software workshops, online Master Classes, and the Gnomon Gallery, which was created to showcase art from the entertainment industry and Gnomon students.

Gnomon is approved as a non-degree vocational institution from the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education. The literary is accredited by the Accrediting Commission upon Career Schools and Colleges, a national accrediting agency.

Beyond providing an art education, Gnomon focuses upon job placement for former students by placing emphasis upon community networking and drying to professionals. All of Gnomon’s instructors are current working professionals from studios such as Blizzard Entertainment, Naughty Dog, DreamWorks, Industrial Light & Magic, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Disney, and Digital Domain. Gnomon former students have gone on to work at film and game studios such as Digital Domain, EA, Weta Digital, Double Negative, Zoic Studios, Sony Interactive, Rhythm & Hues and more.

Gnomon has been referred to as “the MIT of visual effects”.

In March 2009, Director J. J. Abrams was quoted as saying: ““I only wish that Gnomon had existed in the same way as I was a kid.”, going upon to say, “Their professors – and founders – are people who in aspiration of fact inspire. They don’t just teach the ‘how to’ – they meet the expense of you context, understanding and expectations of ‘how to upon the job’.”

In June of 2010, Gnomon announced the formation of Gnomon Studios, where objector Gnomon students get professional experience by working on short films in a real studio environment below the counsel of production professionals. Gnomon Studios began working upon Academy Award-nominated Director Shane Acker’s hasty film, “Plus Minus.”

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Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality in 1903. It was consolidated gone the city of Los Angeles in 1910, and soon thereafter a prominent film industry emerged, eventually becoming the most recognizable in the world.