looking at games/film animation and artwork ( what i want to do at uni )

for my chosen carer i want to go into movie and game art so designing the characters and animating them mostly like avatar happy feet and teenage ninja turtles i have been looking at the courses i should go down and media at uni seem like a good option so the unit i am looking at are Bradford Lincoln, and Nottingham.

the images above are design concept sheet for characters and player avatars in games they are the moat common for of designing and mocking up character profiles the picture to the right is a mock up on a program used by the designer as is the photo bellow where you can see the designer using a tablet to draw out and design his character this is the king of work i want to do when i have finished at university.

  the picture to the left is motion capture technology similar to the technology used on the set of happy feet so the actors could be turned into the penguins on the screen it helps the director get realistic movements of the character and make the emotions more realistic and easier to animate, also the other photo (the one above) shows the way they captured the moments of the turtles in the new movie teenage mutant ninja turtles they use live actors then place the animation over the top to get a more relicts movement onscreen. the method is different to the mentors on happy feet as it is more high tech as the animation has to look for realistic then in happy feet but the tech is still similar.