Design and Digital Arts has a new home at NTU

The new Design & Digital Arts building at NTU is now open!

This building for the Nottingham School of Art & Design will help prepare our graduates for success in professional, technical and commercial careers in the growing cultural and creative industries.

We’re ready for the next generation of designers with:

• Collaborative studio spaces – a series of dynamic, interdisciplinary spaces, bringing students together to extend their expertise and practice.

• Virtual production studio – a 9m x 4m LED volume, fitted with the latest industry standard lighting and camera systems, camera tracking and high-end servers, providing students with highly sought after skills for virtual production in the film industry.

• In-camera VFX studio – fitted with a large 90° green screen infinity curve, the latest industry standard lighting and camera systems and live-keying software, giving students access to the latest VFX and virtual production workflows and practices.

• Black box studio – large performance capture studio, fitted with a 360° ladder truss for motion capture workflows. Utilising the latest technology including Xsens Suits, Rokoko Suits, Faceware Facial Capture technology and Move.AI capabilities.

• Future technology suites – creative spaces to facilitate digital transformation from idea generation to implementation, and a place to host artists-in residence and industry partners. Suites include augmented reality, projection mapping and TouchDesigner capabilities, with a range of 3D printers, VR headsets, small scale projection mapping and mixed reality technology for student experimentation and discovery.

The best way to explore NTU’s new home for Design & Digital Arts is at one of our upcoming Open Days:

Saturday 30 November 2024
Saturday 18 January 2025

Book your place today!

Reply 1

PS Reviewer

Do you have any videos showing the actual building and studios and not just renders?

Reply 2

Nottingham Trent University

Official Rep

Original post by PQ

Do you have any videos showing the actual building and studios and not just renders?

Hi @PQ,

Our Design and Digital Arts page here has some of our latest images of studio spaces as well as a video of our opening exhibitions. We expect that the full building tour will be available soon on our NTU Virtual Experience!

-Yaz