Course results for Curtin University Art & creative design Subjects

Shape your relationship with art and design principles. Explore colour dimensions and textures. Find creative solutions to problems as they come up. Get to know the practical and conceptual tools you’ll rely on in a career in arts and design.

Pulling together your 3d skills, adding advanced rendering and lighting, you’ll work on meeting a  brief for a 3d project. Working to industry standards, you’ll experience an authentic work environment, and be held to professional real-world conduct.

Apply your animation and game design skills to a collaborative project with like-minded creatives. Tell a story, consider culture, and work in a team. Join up with illustrators, writers and filmmakers to produce an engaging narrative-based outcome.

Showcase your creativity and develop your skills in character design, modelling, sculpting, rigging and animation. Learn pipeline and project management approaches used in game asset production. Create characters for games you love to play.

Travel back through centuries of art history. Traverse European and Eastern countries as you learn what inspired and influenced artistic movements. Identify hallmarks of artworks created under the banner of modernism, romanticism and expressionism.

Step inside the digital design production process and get to know the key principles and technologies. Review case studies to find out how experts approach design problems. Pitch your ideas and refine them until they’re ready to be brought to life.

Set up and complete multiple visual art projects. Take inspiration from themes and disciplines. Back up your practice with independent research. Wield a range of art materials as you experiment with colour, context and artistic fundamentals.

Create imaginative art pieces using a mix of traditional and modern skill sets. Pick apart the relationships, tone and associations of different colours. Get your hands dirty exploring paint as a substance. Develop concepts and analyse your own work.

Dig deeper into the key tenets of design theory and practice. Zero in on how good design aids the user’s experience. Unpack the universal elements that make a design more appealing. Engage with modern software and design a digital media work.

Take the first step from gamer to game designer. Evaluate the look and structure of games, and develop your own concepts. Study limitations of tech through time, and make connections between games of today, and non-digitised games of yesteryear.