{"id":8402,"date":"2015-09-08T15:50:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T19:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts\/?p=8402"},"modified":"2024-01-30T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T18:16:10","slug":"digital-arts-graduate-works-for-nintendo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/digital-arts-graduate-works-for-nintendo\/","title":{"rendered":"SPC digital arts grad works for Nintendo, Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg College alumni, Taylor Hajash, is a successful independent third-party\u00a0 video game developer for Nintendo and Microsoft.\u00a0He attributes his success to the knowledge\u00a0\u00a0he received\u00a0from St. Petersburg College&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/digitalarts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Arts, Media and Interactive Web Design program<\/a>. Hajash\u00a0acknowledges that compared to other universities, SPC is the most affordable and gives students the skills they need to succeed.\u00a0 Watch his success story.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Start Your Success Story: Taylor Hajash\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UN5eRllpZmY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Industry skills in digital arts<\/h2>\n<p>SPC&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/asdigitalmedia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Digital Arts, Media and Interactive Web Design<\/a> graduates are prepared to leverage their careers in the digital media industry. Students learn\u00a0how to design and produce digital media and multimedia projects with state-of-the hardware and software; in addition to management skills\u00a0to oversee multimedia projects and\u00a0production analysis.\u00a0Each graduate leaves SPC with an industry-standard digital portfolio and specialized certifications. Some of the\u00a0certifications include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/GraphicDesignCertificate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Graphic Design Certificate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/MediaProductionCertificate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Media Multimedia Presentation Certificate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/VideoProductionCertificate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Media Video Production Certificate<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bls.gov\/ooh\/arts-and-design\/home.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor statistics<\/a>, in 2012 the median pay for multimedia experts was $61,370. After completing the program, SPC graduates are prepared for careers as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Film and Video Editors<\/li>\n<li>Camera Operators<\/li>\n<li>Multimedia Artists and Animators<\/li>\n<li>Web Developers and Designers<\/li>\n<li>Broadcast and Sound Engineering Technicians<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Allow SPC to advance your career in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/asdigitalmedia\/#tab=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">digital arts industry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg College alumni, Taylor Hajash, is a successful independent third-party\u00a0 video game developer for Nintendo and Microsoft.\u00a0He attributes his success to the knowledge\u00a0\u00a0he received\u00a0from St. Petersburg College&#8217;s Digital Arts, Media and Interactive Web Design program. Hajash\u00a0acknowledges that compared to other universities, SPC is the most affordable and gives students the skills they need to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/digital-arts-graduate-works-for-nintendo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SPC digital arts grad works for Nintendo, Microsoft<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8402"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13383,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402\/revisions\/13383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/arts-humanities-design-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}