Teaching Strengths
Mr Danny Ward
Lecturer
School of Art and Design
College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities
Danny has been involved with the creation and teaching in most aspects of production and post production , both 2d and 3d and film and television production.. He has used most of the major commercial software packages such as Maya, Houdini, Unreal Engine, the Adobe Creative Suite, Nuke, Avid Media Composer and Davinici Resolve and has developed extensive learning materials and courses for higher education
Courses I teach
- COMM 2083 Character Performance (2025)
- COMM 3068 Dynamic Effects (2025)
- COMM 3069 Visual Effects Project: Dynamic Effects and Lighting (2025)
- COMM 3082 Visual Effects Placement: Compositing and Tracking (2025)
- COMM 5070 Compositing Production Project (2025)
- COMM 5071 Plate Preparation Techniques (2025)
- COMM 5072 Introduction to 3D Tracking (2025)
- COMM 5073 Visual Effects Professional Practice (2025)
- COMM 5074 Effects Skills Development (2025)
- COMM 5075 Effects Element Development (2025)
- COMM 5076 Look Development and Lighting (2025)
- COMM 1067 Introduction to CGI (2024)
- COMM 2083 Character Performance (2024)
- COMM 2094 Digital Compositing (2024)
- COMM 3068 Dynamic Effects (2024)