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Design Visualisation: Digital Techniques (ARCH30005)

Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)

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Design Visualisation: Digital Techniques forms part of the Digital Visualisation specialisation in the Bachelor Design

This subject brings together practical know-how and critical thinking around the field of digital visualisations of space using industry standard software. Building on the digital representational and design skills acquired in the pre-requisite subject, students will learn the principles of colour, material mapping, lighting, composition, entourage, story boarding, rendering and animation techniques. Students will acquire new skills for building digital models, setting up ‘cameras’, adding ‘entourage’ (people, vegetation etc) with post-production across an ecology of software. The subject will be delivered through a series of lectures, specialist software workshop led by industry expert and tutorials. The outcome will be a portfolio of image rendering and animation positioned within a critical theoretical context of image-production in contemporary design practice. Concluding each lecture and workshop, students will be introduced to self-teaching modules that will enable further experimentation with media and techniques.

Prescribed software programs with no cost
Autodesk 3DS Max
Prescribed software programs with a cost
McNeel Rhino (optional)
Chaos Group Vray
Adobe Creative Suite

Details of software availability and pricing are captured at https://edsc.unimelb.edu.au/student-experience/it-support


Intended learning outcomes

On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

  • Apply professional and theoretical principles of design visualisation within contemporary, industry-standard software workflows.
  • Develop and iteratively refine design visualisations through digital modelling, rendering, and visual composition.
  • Evaluate the use of colour, texture mapping, lighting, and composition principles in developing and completed design visualisations.
  • Discuss and reflect on design visualisation processes and outcomes practiced through considered graphical communication, layout, and composition.

Generic skills

  • Upon successful completion of this subject the student will have had the opportunity to develop the following generic skills: • Engage confidently in self-directed study and research; • Communicate ideas effectively in written, graphic and oral formats • Use appropriate technologies • Developed an understanding of how such techniques are related to creative thinking

Last updated: 31 January 2024