This new MA in Film, Animation and Digital Arts is a broad multidisciplinary program which responds to the latest advancements in moving image production technologies such as virtual production, performance capture and synthesis, and real time visual effects. These and other developments in the digital media arts arena require a new breed of multi-skilled practitioners. The program seeks to develop students' core creative competences in a range of relevant contemporary practices. These include:

• Film
  
• Animation
• 3D computer graphics (CG)
• Computational arts
• Video games
• ‘Immersive’ media
• Digital acting
• Mediatised theatre
• Motion graphics
• Movement interfaces
• Machine vision
• Interactive cinema.

Students' skills and talents as a media practitioner, alongside intellectual curiosity, collaborative spirit, technical proficiency and sense of adventure, will all come into play as they make use of Surrey’s state-of-the-art facilities, great work spaces and dedicated multi-disciplinary supervision. Students will also benefit from the extensive connections we enjoy with the creative industries, which include media production companies, animation studios, VFX houses, facilities providers and film studios - locally, nationally and globally.