Students have independent access to a variety of design and specialist digital media facilities.
Design facilities include dedicated design studios, digital sketching, extensive workshops that are both traditional (such as wood, model making, metal fabrication) and contemporary (3D printing), as well as electronics labs.
Modern, industry standard digital media facilities include a green screen and post-production studio, motion capture, photography and sound studios, up to 12K digital cinema cameras and 360° VR cameras, lenses, monitors, motion controllers, lights, and a dedicated render farm. There's also the opportunity to use our immersive virtual environment laboratory.
You will have access to all our modern spaces during your studies and gain hands-on, professional skills for developing new products and services. Our workshops are collaborative spaces where you can share advice, support and creative ideas with other students. Expert technicians provide workshop training and support our students to develop quality hands-on skills to become creative designers in the modern world.
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Digital fabrication laboratory
From prosthetic limbs to aeroplane parts, 3D printing can produce almost anything you can design. In the digital fabrication laboratory, you’ll use 3D printers and scanners to turn your computer-aided design (CAD) models into real, working prototypes or even finished objects.
Model making workshop
You’ll make everything from industrial models to aesthetic products. With rapid prototyping tools, disc, belt, and pillar sanders, band saws, casting facilities and spray paint booths at your disposal, you’ll have everything you need to turn your ideas into reality in our model making workshop.
Wood workshop
In the wood workshop, you’ll find all the equipment and expertise you need to bring your ideas to life. You’ll use everything from lathes, mortise machines and band saws, as well as manual powered and hand tools. When studying product design, your prototypes and models will often start here.
Plastics workshop
Plastics are a core material in many products, and it features heavily across all industries. In the plastics workshop, you’ll get hands-on with CNC mills, vacuum forming and laser cutting machines and a range of other tools used to work with one of the world’s most flexible and adaptable materials.
Metal fabrication workshop
You’ll find metal bars, tubes, rods and angles with the option to order anything which is not in stock in the metal fabrication workshop. You have access to welding, lathes and cutting machines to use when working on your projects.
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Mac studio
Provides access to our Mac Studio computers as well as industry standard software for video and audio post-production, digital design, graphics and other digital creations.
PC 3D/VR studio
A larger studio where you'll use 3D-optimised PC workstations for visual effects and image editing including 2D and 3D graphics, animation, immersive mixed reality, and compositing, using industry standard software.
Green screen studio
With an infinity cove green screen, post-production PC workstations, and industry standard software, our visual effects studio is used for professional productions. Here, you’ll learn the art of digital compositing and editing, creating footage useful for a range of creative visual outlets.
Motion capture, photography and immersive VR studio
Motion capture sits at the heart of games, blockbuster films and a whole host of other creative industries. Within our motion capture studio, you’ll get hands-on experience and learn to master a technology that’s core to the world of 3D animation. This multi-purpose space is also used as a studio for digital portrait and product photography, as well as a studio housing our PCs and headsets for immersive mixed and virtual reality work.
Music/sound capture studio
An acoustically treated space that has everything you need to record, mix and master instruments, vocals, sound effects and voice-overs. It’s connected to our larger live space; you’ll have plenty of room and flexibility to work.
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