{"id":317,"date":"2013-10-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.eda.kent.ac.uk\/news-ext\/2013\/10\/02\/eda-alum-he-sun-imparts-visual-effects-and-compositing-skills\/"},"modified":"2013-10-02T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T00:00:00","slug":"eda-alum-he-sun-imparts-visual-effects-and-compositing-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2013\/10\/02\/eda-alum-he-sun-imparts-visual-effects-and-compositing-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"EDA Alum, He Sun, imparts visual effects and compositing skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On Tuesday 1st October, Mr He Sun , University of Kent Alum from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts (MSc Digital Visual Effects 2007-2008) returned as a guest lecturer to impart expertise and tips to our students on creating a photo real digital matte painting, utilising the Nuke compositing programme.<\/p>\n<p>He Sun currently works for Jagex as a visual effects supervisor and runs a team responsible for producing  fire and smoke effects, and environmental lighting for real time rendering in games design.<\/p>\n<p>Jagex Games Studio, based in Cambridge, is the UK&#8217;s largest independent developer and publisher of online games and is best known for &#8216;RuneScape&#8217;, the world&#8217;s largest free-to-play MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game)  &#8211; a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world.  The company&#8217;s name comes from its original slogan, &#8216;Java Gaming Experts&#8217;.   Jagex has over 500 employees who provide content development, employee management, and customer support in house<\/p>\n<p>In addition to &#8216;RuneScape&#8217;, Jagex are produce the hugely popular &#8216;Transformers Universe&#8217; and &#8216;War of Legends&#8217; games.<\/p>\n<p>EDA&#8217;s MSc in Digital Visual Effects equips students with the necessary industry skills orienting towards technical director roles, creature development, lighting effects, compositors, digital paint and roto roles, modellers and trackers\/matchmovers, 3D generalist, 3D artist, effects artist or compositor.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday 1st October, Mr He Sun , University of Kent Alum from the School of Engineering and Digital Arts (MSc Digital Visual Effects 2007-2008) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/2013\/10\/02\/eda-alum-he-sun-imparts-visual-effects-and-compositing-skills\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55249,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55249"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/engineering-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}