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Digital Arts at Kent
Welcome
to Digital Arts at Kent — the portal to our undergraduate and postgraduate opportunities
in digital arts and multimedia.
Our very successful BSc in Multimedia Technology & Design gives you the opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge in areas such as web-design, interactive applications and e-commerce, as well as a broad grounding in visual image, 3D modelling, special effects and compositing. You will gain a good understanding of the underlying digital technologies as well as developing your design skills. If you wish, you can take this degree with a year in industry.
If your interests lie more with design than the technology, our exciting new
BA in Digital Arts provides students with practical skills, creative thinking
and design expertise in the digital arts, opening up career opportunities in a range
of areas within the creative industries.
In the first year, our programme offers a broad grounding in digital media, including
website design, digital photography, moving image, graphic design, and special effects.
In the following years you go on to explore digital filmmaking, 3D modelling and
animation, compositing, digital portfolio production and design for print.
Alternatively, if you are more interested in applying digital media techniques to dramatic productions, why not consider our BA in Drama & Multimedia?
For those seeking a career in 3D animation, we offer an MSc in Computer Animation. This postgraduate degree is oriented towards current industrial needs, technology and practice and aims to be a direct route into a desirable and high-profile creative industry. The course is a collaboration with Michael Eames, Head of Animation at Framestore CFC, the largest visual effects and computer animation company in Europe; its numerous international awards include Oscars, BAFTAs and Emmys.
Or you may be more interested in a career as a Technical Director, concentrating on 3D model building, texturing, lighting, rendering, procedural animation (cloth, hair, fur, dynamics), advanced compositing, high definition digital effects and so on. If so, then you should consider our new MSc in Digital Visual Effects.
Our new MA in Architectural Visualisation is offered and jointly taught by Kent School of Architecture and the School of Engineering and Digital Arts. This MA will enable students to develop at an advanced level the skills, knowledge and understanding of digital simulation and 3D modelling which will equip them to become highly skilled professionals in architectural visualisation.
Alternatively, you may like to undertake research leading to an MSc, MPhil or PhD, Digital Media Research Degree.
State-of-the-Art Facilities
Over
the last few years the School has invested over £250,000 to provide state-of-the-art
multimedia equipment and facilities. The specialist equipment includes capture devices,
digital cameras, lighting, radio microphones, sound mixing and video editing suites.
The multimedia laboratories in the School are equipped with the latest versions of professional software packages, such as Illustrator, Photoshop, Director, Dreamweaver, Flash, Premiere, After Effects and Maya.
Excellent Ratings
Research in the School was rated as internationally excellent in the most recent Research Assessment exercise. Equally, our teaching was regarded as excellent after a visit by independent assessors from the Higher Education Funding Council.
In both the 2005 and 2006 independent National Student Surveys (NSS), our School topped the list of all similar departments nationally in terms of students' satisfaction with their courses.
The latest Guardian league table puts the Department top of its tarif band and fifth overall.
Award Winning Students
Our students have been sucessful in winning international awards. Below are some recent examples:
Liz Valentine
Museum of Canterbury Digiguide – EuroPrix Quality Seal 2007 for outstanding creativity and innovation in the category: Mobile Contents.
Best of Festival in the Student Interactive Multimedia Competition, at the American Broadcast Education Association, Las Vegas, 2007. Her entry, “Museum of Canterbury Digiguide” also won 1st place for Authorship Projects in all five categories: Content, Design, Technology, User Interface, and User Experience.
Liz was also winner of the EuroPrix Thesis Award 2004, for Manhandling Joysticks & Pushing Buttons. (~3.7MB)
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Joseph
Waghorn
Bodmas' Brain Buster – EuroPrix Quality Seal 2007 for outstanding creativity and innovation in the category: Online/Interactive DVD.
Paul Turner
His Creative Toolbox won third prize for Authorship Projects in the category, Content, at the American Broadcast Education Association, Las Vegas, 2007.
Creative Toolbox also won the EuroPrix Quality Seal in 2006 for outstanding creativity and innovation in the category: Broadband/Online.
Liz
Canning
Confused Zoo – EuroPrix Quality Seal 2006 for outstanding creativity and innovation in the category: Interactive CD/DVD.
Rob Walker
Winner of the Computer Animation category 2005, Moving Image & Music Award, Germany, for his creative visualisation entitled Rauschfaktor.
Industry Links
A
panel of industrial experts works closely with the School to advise on the development
of teaching and research. Member organisations on our industrial panel include:
Mentoring gives students the opportunity to meet experts first hand. In 2004, for example, TV director David Moore (The Forsyte Saga, Poirot, Tom Brown's Schooldays) held a master class in video editing. In 2005, the award winning documentary director, Jane Milton (C4 The Trust, C4 The Practice, BBC's Children's Hospital) presented a series of workshops on documentary film-making and guest lectures were given by Jonathan Smith, freelance documentary director for C4 and the BBC, and Neil Bell, BBC South East's sports video journalist.
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