MA Digital Effects

Postgraduate

In Bournemouth

£ 8,000 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Bournemouth

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This is a truly international course, attracting students from all over the world with a diverse range of cultures and identities. It will provide you with a strong theoretical and technical underpinning for the principal areas of study thanks to lecture series on filmmaking techniques, green screen, MOCAP, computer graphic principles, the fusion of art and technology, personal research, and applied digital effects theory and practice.
We accept students from a broad range of art-based subject areas including fine art, photography, architecture, filmmaking, fashion design, and graphic design. We will also consider applications from non-art based subjects such as computer sciences or engineering, as long as good art skills can be demonstrated. Knowledge of digital effects and computer graphics are not a pre-requisite for entry, as everything is rapidly taught from basics. A strong set of traditional art and photography skills are however highly beneficial, and demonstration of all art-based skills should be done at application stage in the form of a digital portfolio.
MA Digital Effects and the National Centre for Computer Animation is the UK’s only officially recognised Houdini Certified School. This incredible software is now at the forefront of the VFX Industry, and knowledge of it is a must for anyone wanting to progress their careers in this field.
Digital Effects is one of three Master's degree pathways created by the National Centre for Computer Animation NCCA. All pathways share a great deal of core teaching, but also have specific pathway teaching. If your primary area of interest is mostly illustration or figurative character-based, then our 3D Computer Animation Programme may be a better choice for you. If your application portfolio is mostly technical or programming-based work without much in the way of original artwork, then our Computer Animation & Visual Effects Programme may be the better choice. Our assessment panels will...

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Bournemouth (Dorset)
Fern Barrow, Talbot Campus, BH12 5BB

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  • Animation
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  • 3d training
  • Art
  • 3D
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  • Technology
  • Industry
  • Production
  • Art Photography

Course programme

Course details On this course you will usually be taught by a range of staff with relevant expertise and knowledge appropriate to the content of the unit. This will include senior academic staff, qualified professional practitioners, demonstrators, technicians and research students. You will also benefit from regular guest lectures from industry. Core units Digital Effects Nucleus: An opportunity to experience a digital effects project based on a set brief. This covers 3D digital effects, 2D compositing effects and practical video acquisition effects. Digital Effects Tools: Technical and theoretical teaching for the Digital Effects Nucleus unit. You'll be taught about the craft and tools of digital effects work, get an opportunity to judge your work so far and learn to record digital effects production. Digital Effects Techniques: You'll produce a short piece of Digital Effects work showing your technical abilities to date. The unit offers a chance to merge your learnt skills, and to plan a specific technical direction to prepare you for your Masters Project. Moving Image Practice and Theory: The image theory elements of the programme. It includes lectures on digital cinematography, supporting screenings of films and animations, lectures on art, science and technology and a series of presentations by visiting speakers from the digital effects, computer animation and computer games industries. You'll be assessed through a written report and a short written essay examining digital effects tool production in digital and analogue movies. Group Project: Gain a deeper understanding of digital effects disciplines and contribute to a significant piece of group work in terms of scope, design and aesthetic. You can work with students from across the NCCA Master's programmes, such as 3D animators and MSc Computer Animation and Visual Effects students. Personal Inquiry: A tutorial-supported research unit. You'll get an opportunity to research areas that interest you that may be outside of the normal boundaries of the programme. You'll be assessed at a Research Symposium, where you'll present your research to students and staff. Master's Project: The Master's Project unit has no teaching and is dedicated to your final project. We'll expect your project to be ambitious, with a high level of finish. You'll show a bold and confident approach to production management and the design and execution of Digital Effects. This is normally an individual project, but students are increasingly realising the benefits of working in a group to achieve an impressive final result. The programme ends with a degree show in London, if you pass your Project. This show gives you an opportunity to show your Project to industry professionals and potential employers, alongside friends, family and past graduates. Programme specification Programme specifications provide definitive records of the University's taught degrees in line with Quality Assurance Agency requirements. Every taught course leading to a BU Award has a programme specification which describes its aims, structure, content and learning outcomes, plus the teaching, learning and assessment methods used. Download the programme specification for MA Digital Effects. Whilst every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the programme specification, the information is liable to change to take advantage of exciting new approaches to teaching and learning as well as developments in industry. If you have been unable to locate the programme specification for the course you are interested in, it will be available as soon as the latest version is ready. Alternatively please contact us for assistance.

MA Digital Effects

£ 8,000 + VAT