Produce engaging virtual story environments and develop innovative services for the social web, film pre-visualisation, machinima and online games.
Virtual Worlds courses at AFTRS encompass a diverse range of applications of virtual environments, from social virtual worlds, film pre-visualisation, online games to computer animation.
One of the fastest growing areas of entertainment 'virtual worlds' offer many new opportunities for large scale creative expression.
Our courses explore the potential to extend story into multi-user social and game environments and feature collaborative activities with other disciplines to develop virtual world projects for film pre-visualisation and machinima.
Mixed reality cross overs between television and virtual worlds are also explored.
In 2009 Virtual Worlds can be studied at the following levels:
Award Courses:
FEE-HELP Available
....................................................
AFTRS' Virtual World Professional associates:
- Mark Meadows - AI Developer, Writer, Games Developer
- Matt Costello – Games Writer (Doom, Pirates of the Caribbean)
- Laurel Papworth - Social Network Strategist
- Dr John Banks – QUT (Games and social media specialist)
- Tony Walsh – Chief Navigator, Digital Compass
- Keren Flavel and Gary Wiesnewski – SLCN.TV
- Gary Hayes - The Project Factory