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Partnerships

At the heart of our mission is the belief that partnerships are crucial to advancing innovative design and storytelling. By working together with new collaborators across industries and disciplines, we aim to push the boundaries of design and storytelling, integrating creative practices with cutting-edge technologies. Through these dynamic partnerships, we seek to develop fresh perspectives and solutions that address contemporary challenges, ultimately driving the future of design and storytelling in the digital age.

If you would like to know more about how our partnerships work, find out more about us.

Our industrial partners

Untold Projects logo

Untold Projects joins us as our first industrial partner, having hired the AUT Virtual Production studio, and worked with our staff technicians and students on live advertising projects. Together we are identifying R&D opportunities that can open doors, refine client briefs and enhance AUT student opportunities.

SMPTE Oceania logo

The Society for Motion Picture and Television Engineers is a long established (1908!) industry body specialising in the meeting point of creativity and technology. AUT’s student chapter is associated with this centre, and works with SMPTE on student experience, curriculum enhancement, and design research.

Our academic partners

Centre for Transformative Media Technologies, Swinburne University

The CTMT research centre specialises in Creative Arts 4.0, TechMedia Culture and Digital Cultural Heritage. Their emphasis on the relationship between technology and creativity align closely with that of the VCD, and is the basis for a co-hosted virtual symposia, research projects and mutual staff exchange.

Centre for Creative Practice, Edinburgh Napier University

Edinburgh Napier’s CCP research centre’s emphasis on transdisciplinary, creativity and collaboration make it a perfect partner for VCD. Plans include research seminar series, co-taught HDR students and research projects.

Cradle is a research and development lab part of Breda University of Applied Sciences

Cradle is a research and development lab part of Breda University of Applied Sciences, which hosts the annual Virtual Production Gathering, as well as being the focus for several ground-breaking virtual production research projects funded through the EU. Plans include a multi-national network of VP partners.