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Qualification
MA - Master of Arts
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Location
Leeds Arts University
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
SEP
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Duration
1 year
Course summary
This course explores creature design through animal anatomy, worldbuilding, and believability across a range of professional contexts, production methods, and industries.
You will investigate approaches to developing creature designs inspired by existing animals. There is a focus on experimentation to create imaginative creature designs as well as ensuring believability through considering skeletal, muscular and surface anatomies. You will develop creatures and their life cycles, behaviours, relationships with other characters/creatures and interaction with the environment. There may be opportunities for cross-disciplinary influences from science to help inform creature design.
Candidates are encouraged to position their work within a professional context to help inform the visual output and production method. There are opportunities for creature designers within entertainment design and beyond, such as paleo reconstruction (visualising prehistoric life) or speculative biology (visualising possible future evolution or life on other planets).
Developing a body of self-negotiated work, you will be supported by a team with diverse research and practical interests within creature design and work closely with visiting industry professionals. You will source briefs, work with clients and apply your contextual and industry informed knowledge and understanding to question what makes a creature design believable. The aim is to create believable creatures that engage with their environment and have a past, present and future.
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£ 15,700per year
Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.
University information
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Campus address
Leeds College of Art, Blenheim Walk, Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9AQ, England
Subject rankings
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Subject ranking
62nd out of 86 4
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Entry standards
/ Max 239158 70%15th
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Graduate prospects
/ Max 10060 60%53rd
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 54.05 81%51st
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