About School
Based in Singapore, 3dsense Media School is a leading digital arts school in Asia, preparing students for careers in film, games and animation for over 17 years. 3dsense’s diplomas focus on providing industry-based training for Visual Effects, Animation, Game Art, Motion Design, Concept Design & Illustration, and Toy Production & Figurative Studies. The school is built on the philosophy of passion, training students to achieve significant results in 12 months of intensive training.
Since 2015, 3dsense has been consistently ranked amongst the Top 10 Art Schools globally by “The Rookies World School Rankings”, the world’s most respected ranking system for educational institutes in the creative media and entertainment industries.
Location:
Singapore
Students:
101-500
Staff:
11-50
Founded:
2003
Type:
Private
Industries:
3D Animation, Game Design, Illustration, Motion Graphics, Visual Effects
Success Stories
Graduates have successfully gained employment in many of the world’s biggest media and entertainment studios, such as Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light & Magic, Framestore, Weta Digital, Bandai Namco, Ubisoft, Moving Picture Company (MPC), Animal Logic, Carbon, Fox Sports and many more.
Luan Nguyen
Digital Matte Painter
Caroline Chai
Prep Artist
Wong Leong Kit
Matchmove Artist
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Sen Lai - Founder
We believe that a great school is an environment, infused with the right culture and philosophies coupled with great mentors. This environment embodies the hopes, dreams and will of all our students. They are the soul of this environment and this school is them.
Facilities
World-class VFX training and mentorship by industry professionals
Hailing from international studios such as Weta Digital, Pixar, Disney and Lucasfilm, our lecturers are some of the best creative geniuses in the world. Our full-time Program Directors each have over 10-18 years of production experience, and they have helped to design our curriculum to be as relevant and competitive to the industry as possible.
3dsense also keeps our classes to a maximum size of 25 students. This is to ensure that each student gets proper attention and guidance from our lecturers.
Staff Bios
Here are three staff members from the school that represent the level of professional experience and knowledge of the faculty.
Craig Stevenson
Craig Stevenson, an industry veteran of 20 years, has worked on various VFX projects such as Interstellar, The Avengers, Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon, World War Z, John Carter, Narnia 3, Clash of Titans, Happy Feet 2, King Kong and many more.
Julian Khor
Julian Khor has over 20 years of experience working as a game artist, art director and sculpting mentor. Before joining 3dsense, he was senior game artist at Ubisoft where he supervised artists working on environment and character designs.
Kendrick Lim
Kendrick Lim is an illustrator and concept designer, beginning his creative journey in Tokyo as a game designer, before returning home to Singapore in 2005 to establish Imaginary Friends Studios alongside internally acclaimed Stanley ‘Artgerm’ Lau, who also teaches at 3dsense.
Student Artwork
Here is a small sample of artwork created by students during their time at the school. This quality of work is used by students' to apply for jobs.
Courses
As 3dsense’s primary goal is to prepare students for employment, our courses simulate real-world conditions. As such, our courses are designed to be intensive, where students will be trained to be highly proficient in industry tools and grounded in art fundamentals. Most of our diplomas are 1-year full-time, and students will be able to create a showreel by the end of it, which is key to entering the industry.
3dsense Media School is a government-appointed Continuous Education Training Centre with Skillsfuture Singapore. This means that our school is subject to stringent regulatory audit, in order to ensure that our students can get their best education with us.
- Game Art and Animation - Full-time Program (1 year)
- Concept Design and Illustration - Full-time Program (1 year)
- Motion and Graphic Design - Full-time Program (1 year)
- 3D Animation and Visual Effects - Full-time Program (1 year)
- Figurative Sculpting - Full-time Program (4 months)
- Digital Film Production - Full-time Program (6 months)
Awards
- Rookie Awards 2016 - Game Design Runner Up
- Rookie Awards 2017 - Visual Effects Winner
- Rookie Awards 2017 - 3D Motion Graphics Top 10
- Rookie Awards 2017 - Game Design Top 10
- Rookie Awards 2017 - Illustration Top 10
- Rookie Awards 2018 - 3D Motion Graphics Top 10
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