Industrial Doctorate Centre: Digital Media, Special Effects and Animation

该提案针对的是特效、动画、后期制作行业和电脑游戏公司，英国在这些行业中处于世界一流的地位。该领域是英国经济中一个重要且活跃的组成部分，其重要性可与金融服务业相媲美。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彼此了解，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，以区别于其他公司。在预算和时间上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引导。在公司中拥有博士候选人（DC）可以最大限度地减少开发这些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，熟悉最新技术，致力于新技术，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。当行业不景气时，这些员工将被保留；他们是公司的未来。我们的IDC旨在为这些人提供持续的流动，同时将他们共同发展为一个社区。与其他公司的同行建立联系，了解谁能提供什么，通常是获得合同的关键部分。这里提出的模型（dc主要基于行业）非常适合这个快速发展的领域，因为纯学术研究可能被事件所取代，而商业预算可以使事情迅速发生。

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.