Overview
Overview
This double major gives you the opportunity to specialise in two dynamic digital industries: Animation, Visual Effects and Virtual Production and Immersive User Experience (UX) Design. By combining these fields, you’ll learn how to design and produce engaging digital experiences that are both visually striking and highly interactive.
You’ll build expertise using industry-standard tools and practices and explore key areas like visual storytelling, motion dynamics, compositing, immersive virtual production, interactivity, and user interface design. You’ll also learn about industry best practice across different market sectors, preparing you to apply your creative and technical skills to real-world challenges.
Throughout the course you’ll have access to state-of-the-art facilities including digital labs, high-end media production studios with real-time rendering capabilities, advanced VR/AR equipment and high-performing computing systems with cutting-edge graphics.
This unique combination of disciplines will give you the versatility to pursue a career in diverse fields, including film, gaming, interactive media, virtual production, app design, and immersive digital environments. You’ll also have opportunities to complete industry placements, gaining practical experience and building professional connections before you graduate.
This double major is offered as part of the Bachelor of Digital Creative Industries. You can also choose from the following options:
Single majors, with an optional specialisation*
- Animation, Visual Effects and Virtual Production
- Game Design and Art
- Immersive User Experience Design
*Specialisations
- Game Design and Development Specialisation
- Mixed Reality Experience Design Specialisation
- Virtual Production Specialisation
Double majors
What jobs can the Animation, Visual Effects and Virtual Production and Immersive User Experience course lead to?
Careers
- Animation artist
- Cinematics artist
- Digital media designer
- Digital product designer
- Immersive experience designer
- Interaction designer
- Motion designer
- MRX designer
- UX designer
- UI designer
- Visual effects artist / VFX artist
- Virtual production artist
- Web/app designer
Industries
- Advertising and marketing
- Architecture and urban planning
- Communication and entertainment
- Digital design and creative arts
- Education and e-learning
- Film and television
- Gaming and interactive media
- Media production
- Simulation and training
- UX/UI design
- Virtual and augmented reality
What you'll learn
- demonstrate personal awareness of specific digital creative practices and sustain an engagement with contemporary practices, approaches and technologies in across animation, visual effects, virtual production and immersive user experience design, GC3
- develop a predictive overview of future trends that will influence one’s creative identity and digital creative practices relevant to the context of animation, virtual production and visual effects, GC4
- recognise the importance of social, ethical and cultural diversity and consider local and international perspectives in creative activities, studio practice and production across animation, visual effects, virtual production and immersive user experience design disciplines, GC4, GC5
- demonstrate how intercultural awareness and understanding impacts on personal identity as a creative practitioner and professional skills and on the ability to lead in the discipline areas, GC5
- work independently and collaboratively across animation, visual effects, virtual production and immersive user experience design content and respond to project demands, GC6
- apply discipline knowledge to critically review, analyse, consolidate and contribute to evidence-based practice in the context of content creation pipelines for Animation, Virtual production and Visual effects and Immersive User Experience Design, GC1
- demonstrate cognitive and technical skills in both a broad understanding of creative digital sectors and with depth in utilising animation, virtual production and visual effects and considering Immersive User Experience Design for content development, GC2
- use and discern between a range of creative technologies and media platforms in the production of across animation, visual effects, virtual production and immersive user experience design content, GC3
- demonstrate effective visual, spoken, written and technical communication relevant to creating digital content and apply effective self-directed learning skills, GC3