Industrial Doctorate Centre: Digital Media, Special Effects and Animation

这项建议针对的是特效、动画、后期制作行业和电脑游戏公司，英国在这些领域拥有世界级的地位。这一领域是英国经济的一个主要和活跃的因素，其重要性可与金融服务部门相媲美。维持其未来至关重要。在实践中，这意味着培训具有研究水平技能和管理专业知识的新人。虽然该行业的公司通常相互了解，并且经常在项目上合作，但它们都依赖于创新，拥有自己的内部技术或创意优势，以将它们与其他公司区分开来。在预算和时间内提供新颖技术效果的能力对任何公司的生存都至关重要。然而，要使新的发展有用，就必须以各种实际的方式加以指导。公司拥有博士候选人（DC）可以最大限度地减少开发此类技术并将其转化为有用软件的延迟。对于一家公司来说，要开发自己的内部技术，它需要有高素质的员工，熟悉最先进的技术，研究新技术，然后能够将这些技术嵌入到专业质量的软件中。这些员工可能具有创意或技术背景，但理想情况下，他们将了解这两个领域，并欣赏公司的商业模式。当行业处于萧条时期，这些员工将被保留下来;他们是公司的未来。我们的IDC致力于提供此类人员的持续流动，同时将他们作为一个社区集体发展。与其他公司的同行建立联系，知道谁能提供什么，通常是获得合同的重要组成部分。这里提出的模式，即发展中国家主要以工业为基础，是这个快速发展领域的理想选择，在这个领域，纯学术研究可能会被事件所取代，商业预算可以迅速实现。

This proposal is aimed at the special effects, animation, post-production industries, and computer games companies, in which the UK holds a world-class position. This area is a major and buoyant element of the UK economy, comparable with the financial services sector in importance. It is vital to sustain its future. In practice this means training new people with research-level skills coupled to management expertise. While companies in this sector generally know each other and often work co-operatively on projects, they each rely on innovation, having their own in-house technological or creative edge to distinguish them from the others. The ability to deliver novel technical effects, to budget and to time, is essential for any company's survival. However, for new developments to be useful, they have to be steered in various practical ways. Having the Doctoral Candidate (DC) in the company minimises the delay in developing such techniques and turning them into useful software. For a company to develop its in-house technology it needs to have high-calibre staff, conversant with the state of the art, working on new techniques and then able to embed these in professional quality software. These staff may have either a creative or a technological background but ideally they will understand both areas and also appreciate the company's business model. When the industry is in a lean time, these are the staff who will be retained; they are the company's future. Our IDC is geared towards providing a sustained flow of such people while developing them collectively as a community. Networking with peers in other companies, and knowing who can deliver what, is often a vital part of gaining a contract. The model proposed here, where DCs are largely based in the industry, is ideal for this fast-moving area where pure academic research can be overtaken by events and commercial budgets can make things happen quickly.