WHY LIGHTFORGE?

Did you know that the UK Creative industries are struggling with a massive skills gap?  By 2022, we need to fill 1.2 million jobs in dynamic global businesses.  Many of these are jobs that could give you exciting new opportunities and a fulfilling career. With a little training you could find yourself working on blockbusting feature films, the next gaming sensation or hit TV dramas, like Game of Thrones or Stranger Things. LightForge Academy is a new, dedicated learning environment for creative industries graduates. It is industry focused and led and its ambition is to work closely with its graduates and help them to find jobs in their chosen sector. Our courses respond directly to industry skills requirements and bridge the gap between academic learning and working life by nurturing individuals and mentoring them in how to manage their career paths, from first steps to dream jobs.

WHAT WE OFFER YOU?

From visual effects, compositing and animation to production accounting and other key disciplines within the Film, TV and Games industries, we have developed courses that build on what you know, enhance your technical knowledge and teach you essential soft skills, that will help you secure that all important job. All of this will give you the insight to choose your most fulfilling career path within this exciting, dynamic and growing sector.

COURSES

At LightForge Academy we want to help you to understand where your strengths lie, and suggest what career is best suited to you based on these.  We have developed a series of courses that challenge you to hone your technical craft, and teach you the all-important soft skills that help you advance your careers as part of a wider team.  We are serious about giving you your first steps into the industry, and work closely with it to keep up to date on skills requirements to ensure our courses reflect their needs, or to quickly develop new courses to meet the ever-changing creative media landscape.