About Our Program

The Multimedia Art & Technology program at Cañada college has been training students in multimedia related fields since 1998. The program has grown to include several degree options including its most recent addition of the 3D Animation and Videogame Art track that was designed to meet the industry demands of the Bay Area.

The program now counts with two full-time faculty and six part-time faculty members. Each of them bringing a wealth of information and expertise from their fields.

The classes are taught both in the morning and afternoon time slots as well as various evening courses to accomodate our students with full time jobs. The program is designed to serve the needs of our wide range of students.

We have two state of the art studios, one is cross platform, half of it is Windows and half of it is Apple, and the other one is al Apple. We really want to prepare our students in a dual platform environment so they can be ready for whatever situation they meet when they go out into the work world.

All the machines are loaded with the latest versions of Adobe CS3 Web Premium software, as well as Corel Painter IX, Maya 8.5 in our new Studio, powerful Final Cut Studio and audio applications such as ProTools and other system specific support software. 

The studio is set up with a top of the line projection and audio system and the students have access to laser and inkjet color printers as well as a fast black and white printer where they can print their work. We also count with great peripheral equipment to digitize images and Wacom drawing tablets for all the computers in the rooms. In addition we have digital still and video cameras available to students to do their work.