1996年四川美術學院于全國八大美術院校中首先籌備開設動畫專業(yè)，1999年正式設置四年制本科動畫專業(yè)并成立影視藝術系（現(xiàn)影視動畫學院）。2005年影視動畫學院（以下簡稱學院）實施開門辦學，與重慶廣電集團聯(lián)合搭建實驗教學平臺，通過“四個引入”機制開啟國內“?！薄懊健辟Y源整合實驗教學模式，形成了“課程項目化、實驗實戰(zhàn)化、作品產品化”的核心教學理念，2007年獲批“教育部第一批高等學校特色專業(yè)建設點”、“教育部人才培養(yǎng)模式創(chuàng)新實驗區(qū)”。通過實驗教學形成了“出人才、出原創(chuàng)”的特色，實現(xiàn)研發(fā)、創(chuàng)作動畫片856集（原創(chuàng)9000分鐘）的規(guī)?；敵龊娃D化，服務于行業(yè)，特別是重慶文化創(chuàng)意品牌打造和發(fā)展。學院目前在讀學生共942人，其中研究生44人，本科生898人。學院擁有在編教職工45人，其中教授2人、副教授14人、講師7人，助教8人，外聘兼職教師65人，行政及教輔人員11人。影視動畫學院積極廣泛吸收相關行業(yè)中的優(yōu)秀人才來院任教，充實教學師資力量，已先后聘請了50余位國內外著名的專家和學者介入教學活動。辦學十余年來，影視動畫學院已創(chuàng)作出一批具有影響力的作品和影視動畫產品，培養(yǎng)了畢業(yè)生近3000余名。

Sichuan Fine Arts Institute offered the animation major in 1996 prior to other 7 fine arts colleges in China and it opened up the four-year undergraduate program of animation in 1999 and established the Department of Film & Television Art (present Film-Video-Animation School). The Film-Video-Animation School (hereinafter referred to as “the School”) began running classes in an open-door way in 2005. By cooperating with Chongqing Radio and Television Group, it has set up experimental teaching platform and ushered in a new mode combining “school” and “media” resources through “four introduction”, forming the core teaching principles of “project-based course, practice-based experiment and product-based works”. It was approved to be the “first batch of construction sites of characteristic university majors” and “trial plot of innovative personnel training mode” by the Ministry of Education in 2007. Its experimental teaching mode has taken shape of its own features of “cradle of talents and original creativity”. With the creation of 856 episodes of animated cartoons (totaling 9,000 minutes of original scenarios), the School aims to serve the industry, especially the building and development of Chongqing cultural creative brands. The School now has 942students at school, 44 of which are graduate students and 898 are undergraduates; and 45 permanent teaching staffs, which include 2 professors, 10 associate professors, 21 lecturers and 8 teaching assistants; and 65 part-time teachers and 11 administrative and teaching auxiliary staffs. The School is enthusiastic about bringing in excellent talents. To enrich the teaching faculty, the School has employed over 50 famous experts and scholars at home and abroad. Since its foundation, the School has created numerous influential works, movies and TV cartoons and fostered nearly 3,000 graduates.

2011年學院廣播電視編導碩士學位點升格為戲劇與影視學一級學科，含動畫（含影視動畫藝術、動漫產品設計、互動媒體設計、影視動畫編導方向）、戲劇影視美術設計、影視攝影與制作專業(yè)，是重慶市省級重點學科、重慶市特色學科專業(yè)群、重慶市一流專業(yè)建設點、重慶市屬高校應用轉型發(fā)展試點。學科獲得第六屆高等教育國家級教學成果一等獎、重慶市高等教育教學成果一等獎和三等獎、重慶市省屬高校優(yōu)秀創(chuàng)新團隊，重慶市省級教學團隊，教育部人文社科三等獎、重慶市科學技術進步獎、重慶市社會科學獎，全國美術作品展覽銅獎、國際動畫節(jié)優(yōu)秀獎，中國電視金鷹獎三等獎等，學院團隊完成國家科技部課題3項、省級重大科研攻關課題1項、省級重點課題1項、省級及橫向課題30余項，在研省級課題10多項。

2011 Graduate School of Radio and TV Broadcasting Master's Degree Upgraded to a First Class Discipline in Drama and Film and Television Studies, which also covers the animation (film and TV cartoon art, animated product design, interactive media design and film and TV cartoon writing and directing), drama and film art design, and film and television production art. It is a provincial key discipline of Chongqing, characteristic discipline of Chongqing and Chongqing municipal trial plot for transformation development of higher education, with many remarkable honors like the first prize in the 6th National Higher Education and Teaching Achievements, the first and third prize in Chongqing Higher Education and Teaching Achievements, Chongqing Provincial University Outstanding Creative Team, Chongqing Provincial Teaching Faculty, the third prize in section of Humanities & Social Science awarded by the Ministry of Education, Chongqing municipal award for making progress in science and technology, Chongqing municipal social science award, bronze medal in the National Artworks Exhibition, honorable mention on international animation festival and the third prize in the China Golden Eagle TV Art Award. The School has accomplished 3 researches of the Ministry of Science and Technology, tackled 1 provincial major scientific research project and 1 provincial major research and more than 30 provincial and crosswise projects. Now, the School is busy with over 10 provincial researches.

學院在發(fā)展中，立足四川美術學院美術學、設計學優(yōu)勢跨界新科技，拓展學科新空間，融合新科技推助藝術教育與行業(yè)對接升級轉型，突破“動畫=影視動畫片”的狹窄認識，樹立以需求為導向的“全要素動畫”專業(yè)新內涵，構建了面向時代需求的全新一主流——?戲劇影視美術、動畫（三維、二維）；多支流——戲劇視覺藝術、影視制作技術與藝術、動漫產品設計（讀物設計、動漫產品）、游戲互動設計；新溉區(qū)——視覺創(chuàng)意的新型技術實現(xiàn)方向：VR應用藝術、藝術復原、全媒體視效演展藝術的特色學科專業(yè)群體系。在產學研模式的推動下，學科共建了國家級動畫實驗教學和產業(yè)基地、重慶動漫影視高清數(shù)字技術支持平臺、重慶動漫產業(yè)人才培訓基地等多個文化創(chuàng)意與人才提升社會公共服務平臺。學科立足專、學、術并舉緊貼社會多領域需求，以“實踐實驗”為推手圍繞西南建設人才需求，培養(yǎng)專門型（藝術創(chuàng)作型）、研究型（學科學術理論型）、運用型（文化創(chuàng)意產業(yè)運用型）等復合式影視數(shù)字創(chuàng)新和產業(yè)運用人才。

During the process of development, the School, relying on its advantages in fine arts and design, expands new space for the majors, pushes the upgraded and transformed connection of art education and the industry with new technology, gives new conception to the demand-oriented “total-factor animation”, and establishes a system of characteristic majors including a totally new mainstream meeting the needs of the time – drama and film art, animation (3D and 2D); many branches – drama visual art, film production technology and art, animation product design (reading material design, animation product) and interactive design in games; new irrigation area – way to achieve new technology in visual creativity; art in VR application, art restoration and all-media visual effect, performance and exhibition art. Driven by the enterprise-college-researcher cooperation mode, the School has set up many social public service platforms for cultural creativity and personnel promotion like the National Base of Experimental Teaching and Industry, Chongqing Animation and Film HD Digital Technology Support Platform and Chongqing Animation Talent Training Base. The School pays equal attention to specialty, learning and skill to satisfy the needs of many fields and is committed to fostering versatile talents for specialization (artistic creation), research (academic theory), application (cultural creative industry) in response to the demand for talents in southwestern China through “Practice and Experiment”.