(third year)
UniSA Media Arts degree: RSP VFX specialisation

Our collaboration with one of South Australia’s leading Universities, The University of South Australia, gives students from the Uni SA‘s Bachelor of Media Arts program a rare opportunity to learn from the best.

From 2019, third year Media Arts degree students will have the option to apply for a VFX specialisation delivered at Rising Sun Pictures

In place of the standard 8 third year courses, students will complete 2 x 18 unit courses at RSP

(SP2) COMM 3082 Visual Effects Placement: Compositing and Tracking
(SP5) COMM 3069 Visual Effects Project: Dynamic Effects and Lighting

Each course will run for 12 weeks full time (Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm)

The courses will run during standard study periods (2 & 5) with mid-semester breaks

Admission to the course is competitive.

For more information on eligibility, contact:

Josh McCarthy, UniSA Program Director: Media Arts, School of Creative Industries

Email: Josh.McCarthy@unisa.edu.au

(second year)
UniSA Media Arts degree: RSP elective units

From 2018, second year Media Arts degree students will be able to choose two new 4.5 unit courses at the Adelaide studios of Rising Sun Pictures:

Study Period 2 – “Modelling and Texturing”
and
Study Period 5 – “Look Development and Lighting“

Each course is 3 hours per week / 12 weeks in duration.   These courses will be taught by artists that have worked on movies like Thor: Ragnarok, Logan, Alien Covenant, X-Men: Apocalypse and X-Men: Days of Future Past, Game of Thrones and Gravity.

UniSA lecturer in CGI for the Bachelor of Media Arts, Dr Josh McCarthy, says “the opportunity to work with some of the leading experts in the country as part of an undergraduate program is exceptional.”

“We’re excited about this collaboration because it will give our students experiential learning opportunities of the highest level, one that is sure to inspire them and fire up their creativity,” Dr McCarthy says.

Managing Director and co-founder at Rising Sun Pictures Tony Clark says he “hopes the partnership will encourage new generations of talented visual effects experts.”

“At Rising Sun Pictures we understand what it is to work hard to achieve something exceptional,” Clark says.

“It goes without saying that twenty years ago not many people would have imagined an internationally successful film industry business would be born in Adelaide.”

“Part of our role now should be about encouraging new talent in our home town. Through this partnership with UniSA we want to develop the creative talents of local students but also their belief in what is possible through enterprise and commitment.”

If you’re interested in studying these two new units at Rising Sun Pictures as part of the Media Arts degree at UniSA, you can find out more here.