CGI, digital arts and visual effects at Solent
The CGI, digital arts and visual effects industries have seen a huge boom in opportunities for jobs, as technology becomes more accessible and the entertainment and film industries expand.
Do you want to bring your artistic skills to life? Solent’s CGI and visual effects degree helps to develop artists for a competitive, high-tech industry that offers challenging and creative careers.
Every screen – mobile, TV, film and cinema – contains animation, and if you love bringing characters to life, using hand-drawn traditional animation styles through to stop-motion and CGI, you can become a highly trained and multidisciplined animation professional.
Studying at Solent, you will learn the full production process – from first draft storyboarding to advanced filmmaking techniques, with an understanding of the industry pipeline – and develop your own portfolio ready for when you graduate.
Our degrees bring the latest cutting-edge techniques and industry-standard software into the curriculum, as well as offering you the flexibility to apply your learning in almost any field.
You’ll be informed by highly experienced industry professionals who bring their wide range of knowledge into their teaching and enable you to benefit from a range of guest lectures through industry connections.
Ranked in the top 50 schools in the world by The Rookies (2021)
Courses
BA (Hons) CGI and Visual Effects
With great industry connections and fully up-to-date facilities, this flexible course can help you get your dream job in any of the 3D or visual effects industries.
BSc (Hons) Computer Games Programming and Design
Bring your games ideas to life with this industry focused degree, allowing you to specialise in design, development or programming, and get practical studio-style experience on real games projects.
BA (Hons) Digital and Game Art (Top-up)
Draw upon your previous studies and explore your interests to develop your own specialism within the wide subject area of digital art, including game art, in this career-driven top-up degree.
Digital Arts Foundation Year
Explore your creativity and develop the core skills and knowledge to progress directly on to one of Solent's highly-regarded digital arts, animation, or CGI and VFX degrees.Facilities
Our industry standard facilities means you can work to professional standards, build you portfolio and get the skills you need to be ready for industry.
For CGI, VFX and digital arts you can take advantage of: the virtual production studio, with green-screen and Mo-Sys tracking facilities; our in-house Dolby Atmos cinema; a specialist media production store with access to thousands of cameras and other items; computer suites with dedicated high-spec PCs and industry-standard software; a motion capture suite; Oculus Rift, Oculus Go, HTC Vive and Microsoft HoloLens VR/AR equipment; Shotgun for asset management; a portable green-screen; HDRI chrome/grey balls; a portable Faro LIDAR scanner, Insta 360 Cameras; and 3D printing. For animation, our industry-standard facilities include traditional light-boxes, special effects workshops and green-screen rooms. Students are also given free access to the Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office and a full suite of Autodesk software.
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