During this course you learn the basic principles of 2/3D development and you can document this. Further, you will build a basic interactive real-time application for Windows platforms with a game engine.

Topics covered in this course are:

• Game Engine Basics
• Interactivity/Scripting
• Physics
• Lighting
• Audio
• Animation
• UI
• Building/Publishing

The course starts from scratch; so there are no prerequisites for this course.

A combination of storytelling and good design should work in partnership to turn what can be a ‘dry’ publication into a truly effective communication piece. In addition to good storytelling, good design can help your story deliver an emotional punch, and make it clear what’s distinctive about your organisation’s work. This course will help you become an expert in both aspects.

During the course, you explore and explain various storytelling tools and techniques (e.g. design thinking) to improve or invent creative concepts. Further, you will generate creative concept ideas and develop creative concepts (individually and in team context).

Topics that are covered:

• The importance of storytelling in (on-line) communication.
• What is storytelling, how can it be used in organizations. 
• The importance of scenario’s, structure and visualization.
• Short creative assignments will stimulate students to cooperate and create their own ideas
• Using examples and briefings from practice, the student will be challenged to create new innovative media concepts and to improve existing concepts. 

This course is about making a brand attractive, sustainable and value-driven. Building, strengthening or boosting the image of a brand to get it out of a slump and arm it with the same tools as the big players. Thinking up creative and strategic solutions to Growth Hacking. You will learn all these things in this profession. You start from a Design Thinking approach and devise solutions tailored to your customers.

You give brands a boost by making them stand out and flourish in a smart and strategic way. You learn the basic principles of Reputation Management and can apply these to existing or new brands so that they can outshine their competitors.

In this course you will get a more in-depth knowledge of the animation possibilities in your 3D software:

• You manipulate supplied 3D models in function of polygon flows, making materials, rigging and animation and bring them to life according to learned techniques in the used 3D software.
• You build and test the rigs of the supplied 3D models.
• You create an animation for a more complex 3D problem, related to rigging and physics.

In this course you will integrate new 3D content into recorded real-life film content. This requires not only that the 3D materials used and camera positions be adjusted and merged with the life footage into a coherent end result, but also that the overall lighting of the 3D model should match the life footage very carefully.

The final post-production (basic colour grading, special effects,...) takes care of the finishing touch.

Prepare graphics and illustrations for animation. You'll work with existing designs (logo's, maps, icons, ...) and self-made illustrations. Be basic principles of animation. You'll move the separated parts of your designs on screen.You will learn the basic principles of Motion Graphics on the basis of short individual assignments. Once you have mastered it, you can choose the techniques and methods you prefer to work with. In this way you compile a portfolio of smaller screen graphics and slightly more extensive projects over the course of time. This portfolio can look different for each student depending on your choices and focus. In this course you can also make motion graphics in consultation with the teachers to clarify projects from other (optional) courses with moving graphics.

In this course you work on the creation of a basic real-time 3D game with a focus on:

• Game engines
• Preparation of the 3D content, with the optimization of given 3D models, by working towards low-poly models, good unwrapping and compact texturing, and making of basic animations to integrate in your game
• Creation of a user-friendly user interface
• a good game play and user experience of your game

The impact of technology, especially multimedia and communication technology (MCT), is arguably the most important variable of change in life in the 21st century. With an emphasis on society, economy, media and ethics, we offer different seminars and guest lecturers and invite you to think for yourself, reflect on society, politics and the impact of technology, and do something wonderful with all the new and old ways of cultural expression that our world provides.

Topics for the seminar can include (subjects can change according to actual developments):

• Digital evolution - Past, Present and future outlook of digital technology
• Media and artificial intelligence
• A brief history of the 4th industrial revolution
• Ethical challenges posed by digital innovation
• Technologies of the future
• Virtualization of the world
• Life 3.0 - the impact of AI
• The structure of scientific revolutions

In this course you will learn the basics of both photo editing and vectorial drawing:

• You develop a professional interface
• You design a vector logo
• You understand the rules of usability and know how to apply them in your project
• You are able to design characters, assets and environments for your game
• You are able to design a moodboard for a game
• You are able to design branding for your game

KdG offers free Dutch language courses for all exchange students:

• Evening classes 
• Courses take place at the Faculty of Management & IT at Campus Groenplaats, in the center of Antwerp