BA (Hons) 3D Games Art & Design

You study your first year in the 3D Games Art & Design degree in common with students on the 3D Animation and Modelling and 2D Animation and Character for Digital Media. Whilst still focusing on your chosen digital degree study you will experience high levels and intensive engagement with the latest software and animation techniques. First year study also concentrates on essential skills needed throughout your degree study such as design of character, narrative and drawing. Animation and games histories will add context to your study. As you gain experience in your chosen area of study during this year, you have the opportunity to switch to either of the other two degree routes.

In order to answer the question what makes games fun to play? your second year will explore game narrative and interactivity. Teamwork is very important in this industry and you are given the opportunity to work in groups to create game levels in an existing games engine and genre. Shader creation and scripting are covered alongside the technological restrictions of real time rendering.

Games art underpins all game development. You are taken through the conceptual research, artwork and design for your major project- creating assets - teams create a level and its characters and assets from scratch. Equipped with a showreel games art students are equipped to gain employment in this exciting area.

Placements are a valuable means of establishing industrial contacts and gaining an insight into the commercial reality of a chosen discipline. We have a long history of students working with industry supplementing the taught university curriculum with real life on the job experience.

This has seen students working right across the creative industries sector: in graphic, product and interior design consultancies, working as artist in residence in galleries, producing props and sets for the film and TV industry, shadowing teachers in education, working with commercial photographers through to students working right across the Music industry.

• Animated Thinking: histories, theories, contexts - 30 Credits
• CG Practices and Techniques - 30 Credits
• Digital Art - 15 Credits
• Creativity, Concept and Story - 30 Credits
• Moving Image - 15 Credits

• Moving Visions: perspectives on digital animation - 30 Credits
• Creative Project - 30 Credits
• Advanced Specialisms for Games - 30 Credits
• Games Design - 15 Credits
• Interactivity and Professional Practices for Games - 15 Credits

• Professional Work Experience 30: Screen - 30 Credits

• Employment Preparation - 15 Credits
• Degree Project - 45 Credits
• Pre-Production for Games - 30 Credits
• Critical and Cultural Studies: L6 Enquiry / Report / Essay (Digital Animation) - 30 Credits

• Year Abroad - 0 Credits
• Sandwich Year (Creative Arts) - 0 Credits