Our integrated Master's in Digital Arts offers you the opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge in areas such as interaction design, web design, digital film-making, computer animation and special effects. Digital technology has had a tremendous impact on all forms of communication in the 21st century. Using computers, visual artists can manipulate all forms of artefacts, whether video, photographic images, sound clips or text, to create exciting new experiences for audiences. This programme combines the content of our Digital Arts BA with additional modules from our MSc programmes. You have the option to specialise by choosing selected modules from the MSc in Computer Animation or Digital Visual Effects. Our computer animation content has been developed jointly by the School and our industrial partner, Framestore CFC and is oriented towards current industrial needs, technology and practice. Our digital effects content is steered towards careers such as: Technical Director in creature development or lighting effects; Compositor; Modeller and Tracker/matchmover. In smaller environments target roles include 3D generalist/artist, effects artist or compositor. The Careers tab includes more details on graduate employment.

This programme offers a variety of career options, dependent on the course content chosen. Graduates from the Digital Arts BA typically find careers in areas such as: web design, film, games design, animation and internet publishing. While this is a new programme it is designed to offer similar career pathways to our Master's programmes in Computer Animation and Digital Visual Effects. Previous students from the Computer Animation MSc are working in animation and animation layout roles for companies like Sony Games and Framestore CFC on major titles in games, television and film. This is not easy to achieve as global competition is fierce in these areas - success depends on a much better than average concentration and constant practice to grasp the essence and modern techniques of animation. Previous students from the Digital Visual Effects MSc are working for London and international companies in areas ranging from television graphics to architectural visualisation, although the thrust of that programme is towards high end film special effects and animation from which the standards and techniques allow you to go into numerous other areas of digital effects.