3D Modelling Design The Glasgow School of Art

Overview

The 3D Modelling Design programme at The Glasgow School of Art provides graduates with a highly relevant skill set in practical software and immersive systems (Augmented and Virtual Reality) development, an understanding of how people and technology interact, combined with the creative insight essential to help create the future in immersive systems.

This is a technology-focused degree with a strong art-school foundation, combining rigorous taught components with studio based learning and critical thinking. 3D modelling is a core discipline for the development of content for Immersive Systems and an essential skill in related digital games, animation, VFX and related domains. Students will specialise in 3D modelling while gaining a broader range of technical skills.

The programme provides students with the opportunity to:

• Develop a robust and broad base of technical and conceptual and critical knowledge for a career in 3D modelling, digital games, application development or related areas of computing;

• Examine and explore the theoretical and practical grounding in the specialist areas of 3D Modelling and Games & Virtual Reality;

• Design and develop innovative and creative immersive applications utilising a range of software tools and hardware devices;

• Cultivate, through practice, a set of general transferable skills for creative industries, including communication and collaboration, awareness of ethics in practice and global citizenship, lifelong learning, interpersonal skills, and the skills for autonomous and team- based practices

• Develop an understanding of the professional practices, standards and terminologies within immersive systems disciplines and related professions.