Course results for Curtin University Game design & development Subjects

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.

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.

Delve into a world of gaming and play. Explore the interplay between commerce and game mechanics. Check in on ongoing debates about gaming. Critically analyse everything from casual and social games through to massively multiplayer online games.

Draw on theoretical and technical fundamentals to build 3d models in a digital environment. Grapple with texturing and lighting. Fire up Photoshop and play with techniques to improve your work. Create a video file using your finished designs.

Learn techniques behind your favourite animations. Become a puppeteer to the moving image as you craft an animated sequence – learning how storyboarding, planning and resourcing comes into play. Build skills to communicate a story.

Love it or hate it, the idea of ‘gamification’ has taken root. Examine what it means to play online, and how gaming can both resist and reinforce traditional power structures. Explore the function of rules, and how hacks and mods change the game.

Work in 2D and 3D as you learn about storyboarding, timing, framing, rendering, and grading. Take your project from concept to final presentation. Understand resourcing, development and process. Work towards a career in compositing or animation.