School of Virtual Reality and Film Technology is a specialized school established through the merger of the former School of Virtual Reality and School of Film Technology, aiming to deepen the interdisciplinary construction of film art and technology in the strategic layout of the film industry development in the era of convergence media. In 2018, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the school and the New Zealand Media Design School jointly launched the animation major (film and television special effects direction), and set up digital media technology, virtual reality technology, data science and big data technology, animation (digital effects direction, physical effects direction,virtual effects direction), animation (Sino-foreign cooperation education: film and television special effects direction) and other majors. At present, there is one national first-class undergraduate major construction site and four provincial engineering laboratories.