Learn to design and program
what you imagine:
music,
games, worlds, experiences.
Bachelor's Degree in Creative Computing
RVOE SEP Federal No. 20254141 December 4, 2025 On-Campus Mode Available for cycles August 2026 and January 2027 Mode In-person Duration 8 semesters (4 years)
The Bachelor's Degree in Creative Computing trains the profiles that the creative industry needs most and finds least: professionals who master both visual and technological languages. You will learn to create immersive experiences, visuals for live shows, video games, augmented reality installations, and generative AI systems using the same tools employed by the world's largest animation studios. CENTRO is the only Houdini Certified university in Latin America and offers you the option of a dual degree at NABA Milan.
- Houdini Certified School: The only Houdini-certified university in Latin America; the software used by the world's largest animation studios to create visual effects.
- Dual degree: Complete 2 years at CENTRO and 2 years at NABA Milan, earning a dual degree in video games and VFX.
- Active industry instructors: They don't teach you theory — they teach you what they're working on this week in real projects.
- Global talent framework: 9 CENTRO graduates on the Framework Talent List, a global reference organization for audiovisual experiences at festivals like Coachella.
style="position:absolute;inset:0;width:100%;height:100%;object-fit:cover;">Roberto Cabezas
Director of Creative Computing
He is a transmedia software developer, researcher, and educator.
His work and research focus on applied Artificial Intelligence, data visualization, affective and cognitive computing, algorithmic creation, procedural animation, computational simulation, and philosophy of technology.
He has collaborated with Microsoft, Meta, Fundación BBVA, CONAHCYT, and Santander. He holds a PhD in Music Technology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Join our #Creative Community
Is this program for me?
- If you spend hours on YouTube watching how the visual effects in your favorite movies are made.
- If you've tried making your first game, animation, or music even though no one asked you to.
- If you're interested in technology but don't want to spend your career writing code without a creative purpose.
- If you believe that programming and creating are not opposites, but the same thing.
What will I be able to work on?
- Interactive and immersive experience design. Video games and mixed realities.
- Animation and Motion Capture. Creation of visuals and control systems for live shows. Software development for multimedia entertainment.
- Generalist for multimedia projects (CG Generalist). Prototyping and Creative Coding at tech startups. Electronic music and video art creation.
- UI/UX design and web development. Physical computing and interaction.
Frequently Asked Questions
Learn moreWhy CENTRO?
- • You become part of a creative and interdisciplinary community alongside students, faculty, and professionals from all programs.
- • You learn by doing: you will carry out professional-level projects to include in your portfolio.
- • You access an innovative academic program that connects science, technology, design, and entrepreneurship.
- • You participate in intensive workshops, masterclasses, and project reviews with nationally and internationally renowned professionals.
- • Support to participate in international competitions.
- • Access to a job board with openings from Mexico's most important companies.
- • You collaborate with the industry through the projects of CENTRO Estudio
Accreditations
Houdini Certified School
The only Houdini-certified university in Latin America; the software used by ILM, Pixar, Epic Games, and Blur Studio to create visual effects.
Global talent framework
9 CENTRO graduates on the Framework Talent List, a global reference organization for audiovisual experiences at festivals like Coachella.
Pixera
Pixera is a multi-award-winning system for real-time media processing, compositing, and management, built around the central theme of usability.
Supreme
First commercial made by AI between two Latin American countries, made by students of Computación Creativa CENTRO, The Affair Creative Partners and Icon Photo Films, for Suprema.
Syntopia
Sintopia is an immersive experience created for El Palacio de Hierro, also on display at the Franz Mayer Museum as part of the exhibition Japan, from myth to manga, organized in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
Crystalline
Do we really think something is beautiful or have we simply been constantly told throughout our lives that this is how we should perceive it? Cristalino seeks to delve into the existence of aesthetic pleasure through the uncomfortable, abject, grotesque and bizarre.
Re_Sign
re_sign is an immersive environment that transforms fragments of real-time news into a visual and sound experience. Through artificial intelligence and language models, it converts information into atmospheres that constantly breathe, react and transform.
