With Animation, Film and New Media Development you will develop new techniques and applications for animation, film and new media. Whether you're designing innovative interactive applications or new visual possibilities that digital technology creates, your products will make a difference.
The course is made up of musical education, music production and music technology. You also acquire knowledge and skills related to production processes, cooperation, research & development, reporting, publishing and presenting.
This course brings the age-old traditions of storytelling, theatre and game playing together with the latest technological developments. You will learn how to develop new forms of games: games with content and artistry. Approximately half the classes focuses on technology. The other half focuses on art in general and theatre in particular. During many of the classes, you will work on the development of a concrete digital end product. Your point of departure in this is a story, a message or a content.
With Game Art, you are graphic designer or game artist for games for the gaming industry. You design the graphics of interactive console and PC games, web games and games for mobile phones.
You are trained for work in a multidisciplinary game team, within which you have your own clear role. Along with knowledge in the area of game and level design, as a graduate you have sound knowledge of design, modelling, texturing, animation, technology and production. You work with professional game engines and development software. As a game designer, you learn to combine all the disciplines in a design team in such a way that the playability of a game reaches a high level.
As an interaction designer, you will look forward to the future possibilities of technology. You will develop and create extremely diverse applications, ranging from interactive works of art and VJ applications, through to advanced websites, CD-Roms, DVDs, software applications, educational and other games.
You are trained as a sound designer. A sound designer designs a total sound concept, for example for a feature film, computer game or theatrical performance. You learn to think in terms of concepts, composition and production. The education therefore consists of musical training, music production subjects and subjects in the area of tone and sound. You learn to use hardware and software in the area of music and sound. You also acquire knowledge and skills related to production processes, cooperation, research and development, reporting, publishing and presenting.
Linh is a student from Vietnam. He is in the third year of his study Audio Design at Utrecht School of the Arts (HKU).
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