Visual Effects (Hons) (with Foundation Year) Teesside University

Overview

During the  Visual Effects (Hons) (with Foundation Year) degree programme offered at Teesside University gain experience of the whole production pipeline including previsualisation, motion design, technical animation, effects animation, look development and compositing, and develop your own specialism. By blending together computer-generated and live-action footage, you create scenes that are impossible to develop without creative and technical expertise.

Key Facts

Visual effects involves blending computer-generated elements with live-action footage to produce scenes that are impossible to capture in real life. You merge technical expertise with artistic creativity, producing alien worlds, massive crowds, or fire-breathing dragons on our screens.

The bespoke studios feature industry-standard software, dedicated workshops and stop motion studios equipped with lighting, cameras, and green screen offer you a real world technical experience.

Career opportunities

You have many opportunities to develop your professional skills, links with industry and meet with recruiters through our Expo Series, Animex Festival and Student Futures activities.

Graduates from our Visual Effects degrees have gone on to enjoy successful careers in studios around the world working on visual effects for film, television, animation and games.

Graduates have gone on to work in a range of areas including previs, modelling, rigging, production, effects animation, matte painting, tracking and matchmove, lighting, look development and compositing. They are working for companies including Industrial Light and Magic, Weta Digital, Double Negative, Moving Picture Company, Cinesite, The Third Floor, The Mill, Pixar, Digital Domain, Framestore and many more.