Digital Film and 3D Animation Technology

• Engineering Council accredited degree

• Creating and editing digital video ( standard and HD ) on industry standard software

• 3D Modelling, Computer Animation, Dynamics, Texturing and Lighting

• 2D Graphics post production work (such as anime manga): compositing, image correction, motion graphics (backgrounds, title sequences etc.)

• Provides a wide range of areas for students to investigate and then encourages them to take one area further as part of a personal project in the final year

• Culminates in a year long project merging filmed footage with 3D objects (matchmoving). Gives students an insight into the production and post production processes in Film and TV 

• View our resources includingRare Motion Capture Studio

• AwardAccredited by the IET (Full IEng)
  

Read BSc(Hons) Digital Film and 3D Animation Technology course information (PDF, file size: 578.36KB)

• "liked the fact that the course gave me both practical and intellectual knowledge about the world of film and visual special effects. Helping me to understand and develop some of the key skills and techniques needed to work within professional Film and Television production companies."
• "learning the pipeline behind a visual special effects shot was really useful to give me an idea of the kind of roles available in industry"  Robin Brown – Rotoscope Artist

• "I found the nature of the assignments we were given was flexible enough to allow me to develop my skills in the areas I wanted to pursue" Joe Whittingham – Vehicle Artist THQ 

More about the Faculty

You will study the technology of post production and visual special effects: Editing, 3D Modelling, match moving and compositing. The BSc(Hons) Digital Film and 3D Computer Animation Technology course is a part of an existing set of Film Production Technology awards. The film industry is a large and exciting industry with opportunities for technical specialists. It is a part of the Entertainment Programme that contains other awards such as Film Production Technology, Music Technology and Computer Games Design.

The first year of the course focuses on digital film, you will learn digital video production alongside scriptwriting techniques and get your first taste of 3D modelling scene creation, lighting and materials.

In the second year the course concentrates on Computer animation and 3D technology. You will learn about key frame animation and technical aspects of the integration of film footage, computer generated graphics, incorporating virtual set design, chroma-key and alpha channels.

The third year of the course concentrates on visual special effects and 3D technology using Maya. It is at this point you will take the 3D technology further as camera matching is introduced in order to achieve more complex special effects as used in the industry today.

Detailed course description (PDF, file size: 47.85KB) .

When you graduate you will be able to approach film/video production houses with a broad knowledge and skills-set competing for jobs in computer animation, visual special effects and integrated 3D technology. If you are interested in other approaches to computer animation, including 2D drawing (anime menga), claymation, experimental animation as well as digital, also consider our BA(Hons) Design Animation course.

• Film Production Technology
• Digital Film and Post Production Technology
• Computer Games Design 

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