Dr Gianluca Balla
Senior Lecturer in Games Design (Art)

Research area(s)

• Production Studies
• Digital Art
• Game Industry and Development
• Computer Graphics
• Software Architecture

Research Interests

These are some examples of Balla's Research Interests:

• Production pipelines and workflows.
• Game engines and 3D computer graphics applications.
• Animation practices (e.g., motion capture) and VFX.
• Intersection of game development with film production (e.g., virtual production).
• The different use of graphics software in the creative industries (e.g., digital fashion).
• Game art and asset making.
• Developing alternative narratives. Transmedia and interactive storytelling.
• Writing games and narrative design. IP creation.
• Teaching creative practice.
• Accessibility in art and entertainment.
• The use of AI in video games.
• Software architectures and DevOps methodologies for video games.
• Cloud technologies for MMOs.

Project details

• 2018, Magdalene, a girl out of the blue, digital artefact, University of York. How the mise-en-scène informs the self-acceptance of gender identities and queerness, the identity as a self-structure projected on a marginalised social group and the influence of an underprivileged minority on self-awareness. Link: https://vimeo.com/262724061