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Navigate the world of art and pursue your dreams with confidence
Rome University of Fine Arts (RUFA) is where creativity finds its home and artistic talents flourish to perfection. RUFA is a source of inspiration, providing a one-of-a-kind mix of traditional and innovative approaches to the world of fine arts.
The Rome University of Fine Arts is known for its belief in the transformative power of art. The institution is committed to cultivating creativity, nurturing artistic talent, and providing opportunities for students to explore and hone their unique creative voices. The university caters to its students’ diverse interests and ambitions with various programs and courses offering, spanning the areas of arts, design, fashion, media arts, audiovisuals, and communication.
The Rome University of Fine Arts has a distinguished faculty of artists, designers, and scholars who guide students in their artistic exploration and growth. The campus provides modern facilities and resources, including studios, workshops, exhibition spaces, and digital laboratories, to push the boundaries of creativity. Collaboration and interdisciplinary learning are encouraged, fostering a high-spirited community of artists.
Explore endless possibilities and elevate your artistic aspirations to new heights. Create a world where imagination has no limits, and creative brilliance shines.
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Studying Multimedia and Game Art in our three-year course means exploring this new world. But before that, it means acquiring the methodological and technical-instrumental skills necessary for the design of interactive and multi-platform products.
You will be capable of establish yourself as a computer animation and Visual effects designer in films, television, audio effects and web productions. You will master digital techniques and optimize your manual skills, cultural awareness and creative abilities.
You will learn how to integrate theoretical knowledge with specific technical skills and advanced experimental research, in order to design installations and multimedia environments, set-ups of urban, public and private spaces and large cultural events. Spaces and installations that are created around the multimedia idea and take advantage of new technologies for art.
Learn to master the world’s most popular vector graphics software. The Adobe Illustrator intensive course offered by RUFA is designed to become more familiar with the software and create drawings in vector graphics, professional layouts, photocompositions and other graphic products.
All you need to know about InDesign in one short and comprehensive course: develop new skills and advance your career. The intensive Adobe InDesign course offered by RUFA is designed for those who want to improve and specialize in the field of digital graphic communication.
The intensive After Effects course offered by RUFA is dedicated to those who want to create motion graphics and special effects respecting the professional standards of video production.
The intensive Rhino 3D and V-Ray course offers students a perfect combination to plan, represent and present their own architecture or design product.
3ds Max is the modeling, 3D animation and rendering software par excellence; used not only in the architectural sector, it represents the connection backbone for importing / exporting graphic material between the various 2D and 3D software. V-Ray is the most used rendering engine in the world thanks to the computing power that allows you to obtain very high quality images in a short time.
Before entering the job market you will gain an in-depth knowledge of contemporary plastic arts. Contemporary and classical studies, the analyses of aesthetic principles, the search for a perfect balance between form and substance: these are the key elements of the course and the first step towards the future of a sculptor.
The Master in Fine Arts is the natural continuation of the Bachelor of Arts in Painting and Visual Arts and Sculpture and Installations. Nevertheless, it may also be attended by students who come from other educational backgrounds and who wish to complete their studies by studying contemporary art.
This one-week intensive program is intended for adult learners who want to discover and explore the city, the culture, and the art of Rome through an original perspective.
You will recount the world through the eye of the camera. You will learn to script-write, direct, film, post-produce and edit diverse visual structural formats.
You will enrich your theoretical and practical training with the study of specific subjects such as film, screenwriting, photography, editing, sound, multimedia products, phenomenology of the image and sociology of art.
The Master in Cinema and New formats production aims at training professionals able to cover different roles within this new sector: production secretary, production inspector, production manager, general organizer, production delegate, marketing manager, development manager, acquisition manager, sales agent, creative producer, executive producer, independent producer.
This intensive workshop will provide you with the knowledge you need to make digital cinema without being bogged down by the methodology, logistics, and costs of traditional cinema productions.
RUFA Graphic Design graduates tackle this job market thanks to the many skills they acquired during the programme they attended at the Academy, which covers the many different aspects of visual communication.
The course combines digital techniques with traditional colouring methods, creating the DNA of communication for the 21st century. A three-year course for all of those who want to entertain, illustrate, tell stories, and provide emotions by transforming their personal message into visual images.
As a designer you will design our habitat: a hybrid and contemporary aesthetic experience that is both innovative and sustainable. By guiding trends and styles, you will become the interpreter of the community in which you live, helping to build its deeper meaning.
The new three-year RUFA course is the first course in Italy that takes a transdisciplinary approach to integral ecology in the creative design of the entire fashion supply chain and aims to provide solid technical skills, while stimulating a critical reflection on cultural and business models of the fashion system, with a view to sustainability, inclusion and circularity.
You will learn to design, develop and merge the scene and the costume, the place and the world, the moment and the semblance. You will develop the magical artistry that makes every performance possible by skillfully blending architecture, history and visual arts.
We will teach you how to paint both drawing on tradition and mastering the techniques of the present. You will create your own art, future and career in one single project.
You will perfect your knowledge reaching the very heart of communication design. You will learn to master the fields of visual design, from advertising to the highly structured world of multimedia communication, combining design techniques and digital innovation.
You will further refine your training to achieve an advanced technical and design specialization. Throughout your studies you will be supported by a well-structured, constantly updated set of collaborations, internships and job placements with leading players in the world of Italian set design.
The aim of the Master in Design Management is to train professionals with different roles in this evolving framework at large private companies, SMEs, public administration, and non-profit organizations: Research and Service Designer, Service Design Strategist, User Interface Designer, Experience Designer, Brand Strategist, Business Designer, Project Manager, Content Designer, Designer for sustainable social change, Organizational Change Manager, Digital innovation and new business consultant.
The scope of this program is to prepare students for the demands of their multidisciplinary and multicultural Foundation Year program. This practice-based course is intended to develop practical, theoretical, critical, and presentation skills.
The Foundation Year enables participants to build the foundations to undertake any Bachelor of Arts program. In this context, students can put themselves to the test, improve their language knowledge, get to know a National academic excellence and create professional relationships with the lecturers.
The intensive art drawing course is designed to meet the needs of those approaching drawing for the first time, but also for those who want to acquire new techniques and greater familiarity by working on existing bases.
You will practice physical and mental exercises to learn how to hold the space, including some derived from yoga, several trust exercises, endurance exercises, and meditation techniques.
The course includes special visits and a unique guided tour Museo Maxxi where you will have the chance to do your own performance in front of the audience at the museum.
You will discover how to express your creativity, learning many techniques and enhancing your curiosity to get to know and tell the world around you: you will gain an attentive and personal view, which will give you the opportunity to emerge in the field of the contemporary image.
Acquiring and developing the professional techniques of photography: this is the aim of the intensive course specially structured for those who are approaching the world of photographic visual arts.
The course allows to know the potentialities of the photographic language, teaching how to use it in order to express one’s own creativity, also through the method of direct experience.
This workshop will allow you to enter a timeless dimension, in which interior design is elaborated through pre-digital techniques and the use of materials, colors, and shapes.
You will be immersed in a unique place, working in a real material library on the main floor of a 16th-century palace in the very center of the eternal city.
The Master in Art Curating and Management aims to train professionals to work in the contemporary cultural and art system, at national and international level, and in different roles: independent curators, art critics and journalists, contemporary art museum supervisors in research offices and archives, art foundation consultants, gallery assistants and gallery managers, advisors for auction houses and collectors, coordinators and curators of art archives, organizers of contemporary art festivals and exhibitions.
Asset creation On-campus
Think Tank’s mentorship is designed to help artists that have previous training and/or experience brush up on their skills and produce a viable demo reel. Each student is assigned a personal, state-of-the-art workstation. During your time on campus, you will have access to 4-months of guidance from an industry professional to create and polish your demo reel.
Vancouver, Canada
12 Months
February | June | October
International Students: $50,800 CAD
Canadian Students: $38,400 CAD
asset creation Online
Asset Creation is a term used in the CG industry for the creation of all bits and pieces, both big and small, used in Film and Games. This Asset Creation program is designed to train working artists in the CG Industry for the roles of Props & Environments for Film, Characters & Creatures for Film, Environments for Games as well as Characters & Creatures for Games.
Online
16 Months
February | June | October
$15,840 CAD
If you pay for all 4 terms upfront, you will receive 5% off.
Mentorship
Think Tank’s mentorship is designed to help artists that have previous training and/or experience brush up on their skills and produce a viable demo reel. Each student is assigned a personal, state-of-the-art workstation. During your time on campus, you will have access to 4-months of guidance from an industry professional to create and polish your demo reel.
Vancouver, Canada
4 Months
February | June | October
International Students: $16,500 CAD
Canadian Students: $12,500 CAD
Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia and Game Art
Master of Arts in Computer Animation and Visual Effects
Bachelor of Arts in Cinema
Master in Cinema and New Formats
Master of Arts in Film Arts
Bachelor of Arts in Design
Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design
Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design – Comics and Illustration
Bachelor of Arts in Set Design
Bachelor of Arts in Sustainable Fashion Design
Master of Arts in Multimedia and Design
Master of Arts in Visual and Innovation Design
Master of Arts in Set Design
Master in Art Curating and Management
Master in Design Management
Bachelor of Arts in Painting
Bachelor of Arts in Sculpture and Installations
Master of Arts in Fine Arts
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Christian Angeli
Audiovisual and Show Documentation Techniques- Christian is a director specializing in Italian Literature and creates art documentaries for RAI, including the award-winning “Mendini: the Theater of Objects.” He also directs social documentaries, more than 70 episodes of “Prima della Prima” on opera, and various theater productions. Directed the film “In the Flesh” and the short film “Fare bene Mikles.”

Cinzia Capparelli
Photography – Cinzia specializes in fashion, portraiture, and advertising. You work with a continuous tension towards experimentation, with the care of light and vision, in search of meditative empathy with the subject. She has published her photographic services in magazines such as Vogue, L’Officiel, Elle, Vanity Fair, Skira, and Manfredi Editore.

Sergio Basso
Filmmaking and Cinematography – Sergio Basso is a film and theater director, screenwriter, and video game writer. He has received awards at international festivals for his “Elementary loves” films and “Tell me who I am.” He also writes TV series and articles for Il Corriere della Sera and has experience in cross-media platforms and animation, winning the Annecy Festival. Directed documentaries for Chinese state television, CCTV 6, and worked on the writing team for the video game “Aftermath.”

Emanuela Camacci
Visual Techniques and Technologies, Sculpture Techniques – Emanuela Camacci is a talented sculptor from Rome. She received her sculpture training from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and honed her mosaic art skills in Costantino Buccolieri’s lab. Her works have been displayed globally in exhibitions and land art projects, and she has been awarded for her public art installations. Her work reflects emotional life and explores the relationship between sculpture, architecture, and the environment.

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