ABOUT THE COURSE
Looking to launch a career at the point where art meets gaming? This professionally accredited computer games art degree focuses on digital art production, giving you a broad understanding of the technology that holds computer games together and helping you to become well versed in art direction, character creation and environment design.
Alongside the development of creative design and art direction skills, this computer games art degree covers computer graphics, the business of games, employability and project management. This broad comprehension will help put students in the best possible position to find employment after graduation.
Students benefit from free access to our dedicated high-spec computer games lab, where they can make use of industry-standard software from Adobe, Autodesk and Epic (Unreal Engine).
Using these facilities, students build up a varied portfolio of creative work. From character models and level design to environment rendering and textures, this portfolio helps students to demonstrate their competencies to potential employers.
At Solent, our excellent industry links play a key part in student development, and past students have had the opportunity to work on live briefs for real clients. In addition, our academic team is formed of expert professionals who have wide-ranging experience in computer game technology and the gaming industry.
Additionally, Solent is a founder member of SIGN. This not-for-profit network was established to represent and support independent video games developers and facilitate growth in the south’s independent video games development sector.
YOUR FUTURE
The course is directed at art production for computer games. It also provides transferable skills in the creative industries such as model-making for film and television. The skills you learn can be applied to many other industries – for example, architectural visualisation – as well as jobs in simulation and data visualisation.
Suitable roles for graduates include:
- 3D modeller
- Prop artist
- Environment artist
- Technical artist
INDUSTRY LINKS
Members of the teaching staff have wide-ranging experience in the games industry and can help you to build your own contacts.
Solent is the founder member of the Southern Independent Games Network (SIGN) providing students with many crucial networking and knowledge sharing opportunities.
PLACEMENTS
You will be able to draw on the course team’s strong ties with industry to help secure studio placements. You may also have the chance to exhibit your work at events such as London Comicon.
Past students have worked on live client projects or undertaken work placements for companies including DX Studio, Curve Studios, Lionhead Studios and Double Six.
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