Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Darren Wall
Senior Lecturer
Darren is an experience senior lecturer in creative arts subjects. He specialises in drawing, concept art, 3D graphics, animation, aerial photography and digital sculpture. He contributes to and leads the Storytelling and Digital research cluster within Leeds School of Arts.
Darren is an active researcher in the field of digital photo-realism, digital scanning and photogrammetry. His collaborative research examines the sense of space and time in the visualisation of otherwise inaccessible artefacts and environments. He co-leads a research cluster which aims to explore the impact of immersive storytelling in the context of modern globalisation. This puts focus on digital technologies and considers the convergence between traditional and innovative platforms.
Darren holds a PhD from Leeds Becket University, which investigates perception of photorealistic digital humans. This looks specifically at the technical and creative challenges arising from the process of developing realistic digital assets. His illustration and aerial photography work has been exhibited regionally as part of collaborative research projects, visualisations and film shoots.
Darren is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Current Teaching
BA (Hons) Games Art:
- Dissertation
- Personal Project
- Game Art Fundamentals
- Intro to Character Design
BSc (Hons) Games Design:
- Game Asset Creation
- Concept Art and Visualisation
MSc Creative Technologies:
- Research Practice
- MSc Dissertation
Research Interests
Darren is currently engaged with other colleagues in a collaboration with regional museums and galleries. The aim of this research is to explore the use of gamification as a strategy to enhance the visitor experience in museums, by attracting new visitors, increasing engagement, and expanding the reach and impact of museums. This will see the researchers use 2D illustration, 3D modelling and audio to bring otherwise inanimate exhibits to life.
Ask Me About
- Visual Effects
- Concept Art
- Creature Design
- Rigging
- Aerial Photography
- Animation
- Art
- Computing
- Creative technologies
- Design
- Film
- Games
- Special effects
- Television