皇家墨尔本理工大学

Learn to create rich interactive experiences by developing your game design and specialist art skills.

This unique degree provides specialist training in computer-generated design with particular emphasis on game studies and art practice. You'll study design, narrative, imaging, modelling, 2D and 3D animation, concept art, and game environments.

RMIT has developed two dedicated games research groups with a specific focus on world-leading research, which attracts expert staff who teach the most up-to-date and cutting-edge ideas.

Explore Games, Animation and Digital Media

This course offers a unique learning environment, in that students are responsible for driving their chosen projects by developing and implementing ideas established in the first semester.

Year 1

You will be introduced to the unique, world-class game design studio courses, including:

critical game studies

game history

imaging and 2D artwork

game engines

Year 2

You’ll grow your understanding of game studies and production through the main studio courses, and will find modules focussing on:

concept art and advanced imaging

3D character design

sound design for interactive environments

experience design

Additionally, you will begin your journey as a broadly educated designer by taking electives in areas such as journalism, film, cultural studies, sound or animation.

Year 3

You’ll study in studios that address games design and analysis, games industry and professional portfolio skills.

You’ll produce a major team project aimed at a completed and publically-available game at the conclusion of the year, launching your career within games, or as a games graduate using their craft to expand the definition of games in other areas.

Career

Upon graduation, you will be equipped to start your own successful company and artistic career. This degree provides regular interaction with Bachelor of Information Technology (Games and Graphics Programming) students in a studio that reflects the constantly evolving practices of industry.

Graduates from this degree are independent thinkers and developers known for their self-sufficiency, and as a result, many are employed by design companies around Australia. This course will prepare you for the new games economy, currently dominated by apps but always evolving.

Learn the skills required to work in the broader games and creative industries, or to launch your own company and artistic career. Graduates have gained the aesthetic and technical abilities within the disciplines of art and design that enable them to work as:

2D and 3D game artists

game designers

level designers

interface designers

researchers

concept artists

animators

3D visualisers and modellers

producers

art directors.