Hardware & Software
AIE teaches the latest industry standard software
AIE students will be taught to use the most up to date software on the latest hardware to ensure they are ready to enter the industry on completion of their course. The software that is used at AIE is constantly being updated and reviewed in consultation with our industry partners. As the latest hardware comes to market, AIE students will have access to these platforms as they develop their projects.
Software used in each course
Advanced Diploma of Professional Game Development
Students utilize industry standard software and resources such as:
- Maya — modeling, rigging, animating, Lighting and rendering
- ZBrush — High detail sculpting and texturing
- Adobe Creative Suite — Concept and texture maps
- Unreal Engine and Unity 3D engine — Game Development
- Adobe Premier — Video editing
- Sunstance Suite — High details materials and texturing
- Marmoset Toolbag — Look dev, light and render pipelines
- Marvelous Designer — Clothes and fabric simulation and development
Advanced Diploma of Professional Game Development
Students utilize industry standard software and resources such as:
- Visual Studio — Programming in C, C++ and C#
- Open GL — Low level computer graphics programming
- Game Engines — Unity 3D and Unreal Engine
- FMOD — Industry standard audio programming tools
- Perforce and Git — collaborative version control tools
- Open-source Libraries — Public code-bases commonly used throughout programming industries
Advanced Diploma of Professional Game Development
Students utilize industry standard software and resources such as:
- Unity 3D, Unreal Engine, GameMaker, Twince — Game engine and development frameworks
- Maya — 3D content and animation
- Perforce, Sourcetree — Project management and version control
- Adobe Creative Suite — Visualisation
- Visual Studio, MonoDevelop — Programming Tools
- Microsoft Office Package
Advanced Diploma of Screen & Media
Students utilize industry standard software and resources such as:
- Maya — Modelling, rigging, animating, lighting and rendering
- ZBrush — High-detail sculpting and texturing
- Photoshop and Substance Designer — Concept art and texture maps
- Nuke and 3D Equalizer — Compositing and match-moving
- Premiere — Video editing
- Renderman — Rendering
- Deadline — Rend farm management
Some of the hardware you will use while studying at AIE
Oculus Rift
The Oculus Rift is a virtual reality system that completely immerses you inside virtual worlds.
Play Station dev Kits
Playstation 4 controllers.
NVidia Shield Tablets
The NVIDIA SHIELD tablet is a high-performance tablet that can transforms into a serious gaming machine if required.
RED Camera
Carbon Fibre RED EPIC Dragon with Super35mm sensor. High-resolution 6K digital camera for major motion pictures such as the ‘The Martian” with Matt Damon.
Computers
AIE current standard computer specification: Intel i7 Haswell CPU's, 16-32BG RAM, SSD's and nVidia GTX970 4GB graphics cards. Each computer has dual monitors to best facilitate learning and ergonomics.
Render Farms
In house computer HP Proliant Blade render farms to process animations created by our students.
AIE Campus Facilities
AIE provides state of the art facilities and equipment to provide hands on training for all their students.
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