The Media Design School offered The Bachelor of Art and Design
The Media Design School in Auckland, New Zealand offered The Bachelor of Art and Design
February 24th, 2014
The Media Design School in Auckland, New Zealand offered The Bachelor of Art and Design. It provides the technological skill set and project experience that prepares scholars for entry into the global film, TV, animation and game studio industry. The schools have close ties with Wellington based Weta Digital, a visual effects company that won an Academy Award for Best Visual Effects on James Cameron's Avatar.
The Media Design School offers specialized qualifications for media design, film, entertainment, interactive design and computer gaming sectors. Darryn Melrose has been named the new CEO of Media Design School, New Zealand. Some of the movies that the school's graduates have worked include The Hobbit trilogy, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Prometheus, The Dark Knight and Avatar.
In the first year course, pupils learn basic art skills and achieve proficiency in industry standard software and technical tools that includes an introduction to animation, modeling and visual effects. In the second year course, the students involve immersive studies in core subjects like pre-production, scripting and dynamics. The final year incorporates industry processes and practice to prepare scholars for industry placement.
Phenakistoscope (1831) A phenakistoscope disc by Eadweard Muybridge (1893).The phenakistoscope was an early animation device. It was invented in 1831 simultaneously by the Belgian Joseph Plateau and the Austrian Simon von Stampfer. It consists of a disk with a series of images, drawn on radii evenly spaced around the center of the disk. Slots are cut out of the disk on the same radii as the drawings, but at a different distance from the center. The device would be placed in front of a mirror and spun. As the phenakistoscope is spun, a viewer would look through the slots at the reflection of the drawings which would only become visible when a slot passes by the viewer's eye. This created the illusion of animation.
