BA (Hons) Visual Effects

Course Description

This course not only provides students with professional skills in key areas of the visual effects production pipeline such as previsualization, modelling, rigging, scripting, tracking, technical animation, effects animation, lighting, look development, and compositing, but it also allows students to delve deeper into their own specialism. Work collaboratively in teams with students from various animation courses on industry-led briefs and short films to get experience with the wider pre-production and production pipelines and to replicate professional practice. In addition to dedicated studios with industry-standard VFX software, you have access to specialised camera and grip equipment, motion-capture studios, and a fully equipped sound stage with a green screen and motion-control cameras. Students will graduate prepared to work in this expanding sector. Visual effects jobs are in great demand; according to the Department for Digital Culture, Media, and Sport, the creative industries contributed £111.7 billion to the UK economy in 2018, a 43.2 per cent growth in real terms since 2010.