Our BSc (Hons) in Visual Effects and Virtual Production will equip you with the technical and creative skills to produce scenes worthy of any Hollywood blockbuster. You’ll also develop a professional showreel and plenty of practical experience. By the time you graduate, you’ll be ready to launch a career in the booming multi-billion-pound VFX and virtual production industries, which offer a wide array of job opportunities. You could be producing effects for film, television, animation, games or advertising. Virtual production combines skills used in film and games, enabling you to create realistic environments on virtual sets. You’ll be exploring convergence technologies, camera tracking and real-time rendering. And inside our Virtual Production Suite, you’ll get to use green screen techniques to learn how to build action sequences.Our Motion Capture Studio is where students can record different movements and then map the data onto CGI models. They could even work with real dancers to get the models to shadow the humans.
These are just some of the fantastic industry-standard facilities available to students. Other features include a TV studio and post-production labs. As one of only a select few UK certified partners with Houdini, you’ll also have amazing access to the latest professional software for visual effects. We have lots of other industry links too.
For one recent project, students teamed up with military historian Andy Robertshaw, who has worked as an advisor and consultant on the films War Horse and 1917. The students used 1917 film props and costumes to reimagine First World War scenes with CGI and also created explosions. With motion capture, they produced multiple soldiers in action.
Careers
Our graduates have seen incredible industry success. Former students have worked on major films like Avengers: End Game, The Lion King and Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. Staffordshire University alumni can be found working for some of the best CGI and VFX houses in the world, including MPC, Double Negative, Framestore, Outpost, Random42, Pennant International and many more. The skills you learn on the Visual Effects and Virtual Production degree will be suited to work across film, television, animation, advertising and the games industry. Roles could include becoming a compositor, visual artist, modeller or researcher. Graduates can also continue their studies at Staffordshire University. We offer Masters degrees in Animation, Film Practice and Film Studies.
