MFA Digital Arts and New Media. This is an interactive perspective. Right now the crossover between the arts and virtual reality is incredible. You need to b

MFA Digital Arts and New Media. This is an interactive perspective. Right now the crossover between the arts and virtual reality is incredible. You need to be able to: dress a set, light it, do sound design, puppetry (avatars/rigging), sculpt / model, paint, and code. Artificial intelligence for agents and their behaviors. Narrative to tie it all together. Oh -- and to take risks, withstanding brutal critiques while taking the advice that helps and ignoring the advice that doesn't. To document the entire process, present it in public, and speak about it with alacrity. How to research new methods & materials, and adapt them to your practice. I'll take a second to plug all the programs at UC Santa Cruz -- Department of Computational Media, Center for Games and Playable Media, Digital Arts and New Media MFA.