Course summary

Our Game Art degree is a practical skills-based course tailored to meet the demands of creating professional art and assets for the games industry. The course utilises a mix of lectures, hands-on workshops, tutorial classes, and practical exercises, to give you a rounded education in the creative arts. We start by focusing on your existing traditional artistic abilities, covering areas such as still life, life drawing and other observational art, including essential concepts such as proportion, anatomy, and composition. This involves classes, projects, lectures, and field trips and helps you to develop these non-digital aspects of your creative work. At the same time, we start to bring your work into the digital realm, working with industry standard hardware and software. You will explore 2D concept art, 2D design, 3D art, Digital sculpting, digital painting, and game engines which including lighting. There is a heavy emphasis on professional workflows, collaborative feedback and foundational knowledge, this programme covers a wide range of subjects from fundamentals such as drawing, perspective, shape language, colour theory digital painting and 3D modelling, to complex subjects such as anatomical sculpting, PBR texturing, game engine integration and transferable skills such as self-promotion, networking, and C.V. writing. By the time you reach your third year, you will be ready for the challenge of your honours project. You will work with your tutor to define a project that will make the most of the abilities you have developed, while keeping it focussed on the career and specialisms that you hope to pursue