Course Summary
Course Category: CAO (Higher Education - HET)
This unique course is the first 3D animation undergraduate degree in Ireland. It will allow you to understand the highly artistic and technical practices that are involved in creating characters, stories and worlds using advanced digital technologies.
Learn both advanced technical and creative skills to understand 3D animation pipelines, including character, design, world building, animation principles, lighting, rendering along with other specialised areas.
This course is running in partnership with Creative Futures Academy (CFA).
Course Details
What will you study?
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Film Transitional Studies
Screen Studies
Cinematography for Digital Film
New Media Production
Important
- Colleges may add/remove modules to keep the course updated and to meet demands.
Progression to CAO Courses
The Student - Career Interests
This course is typically suited for people with the following Career Interests:
Creative
Creative people are drawn to careers and activities that enable them to take responsibility for the design, layout or sensory impact of something (visual, auditory etc). They may be atrracted to the traditional artistic pursuits such as painting, sculpture, singing, the performing arts or music. Or they may show more interest in design activities, such as architecture, animation, or craft areas, such as pottery and ceramics.
Creative people use their personal understanding of people and the world they live in to guide their work. Creative people like to work in unstructured workplaces, enjoy taking risks and prefer a minimum of routine.
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Career Progression
Our graduates will be equipped with the creative, technical and production expertise to be able to choose from multiple pathways on graduation, either directly into the animation, film & tv, games, motion graphics and the visual effects industries, to engage and create using new immersive technologies or to post graduate studies. This course will lead to a career in the dynamic Irish or International animation industry.
