ABOUT THE COURSE
Want to develop your artistic talent and sharpen your technical skills within the digital world? Solent’s digital arts top-up degree is perfectly suited to students who want to upgrade existing HND-level or equivalent qualifications into a full honours degree.
Building upon classical art training, creative problem solving and ideas generation, this one-year course will help you develop a set of core skills that underpin a specialisation of your choice.
You’ll get to work in a variety of media, experiencing both 2D and 3D tools. This will help you produce products to industry formats and standards. You’ll also have the opportunity to develop production skills that diversify your portfolio and broaden your career prospects. This is achieved by choosing specialised optional units. These are then combined with the core project units to help turn you into a multi-skilled, well rounded and highly creative graduate who can quickly adapt to the creative workplace.
Dedicated studio spaces and exposure to a high-end suite of industry tools, software and techniques - together with tutoring from industry experienced staff - will help you identify and hone your skills. You’ll also be supported in developing your game production, business and entrepreneurial skills, as well as working with coders and artists in the Video Games Academy.
The course team has a continued commitment to industry engagement, sourcing real world briefs and clients to help students graduate with not only a solid theoretical understanding of the field, but also with practical, tested and industry relevant experience. This will help build a creative and professional edge over your peers, as well as a solid portfolio of diverse works to aid in securing employment.
YOUR FUTURE
Although this top-up aims to give students a taste in a wide spectrum of digital art, there is vocational emphasis with core units such as the major project. You will be required to analyse your skill set against the requirements of your chosen career and then focus on addressing identified gaps:
Possible career directions include:
- Video games artist
- Roto artist
- Animator
- Motion graphics artist
- 3D designer
- Architectural visualiser
- Digital sculptor
- CGI illustrator
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