Look closely and you'll see the world runs on animation. Just about everywhere you turn, you find animation in some form, whether in a commercial, at a sporting event or in movies and television. 

“The interesting thing is, it’s hard to understand how pervasive animation is -- it’s everywhere," said Augusta University's Scott Thorp. "Anything that moves, any media that you interact with, likely has animation inside of it. When you think of commercials, you have Monday Night Football, all that stuff moving on the screen is what our students will do.”

Thorp is chair of the Department of Art and Design at Augusta University and an artist himself. He said in Georgia right now, there are more jobs than animators in just about every aspect of the industry.

“When you think about videos, instructional videos, flight simulators, surgical simulations, metaverse, animation -- it's there," said Thorp.

This boom is also why Augusta University recently announced plans for a major expansion of its animation program housed on the historic Summerville Campus.