Games Art

This Games Art foundation degree, based in Nottingham, is designed for those who want a career in the growing games art industry.

The game artist creates the visual elements of an interactive computer game, crafting assets like 2D graphics, 3D characters and environment models, surface textures and user interface components.

A game artist may also be involved in conceptualising ideas to help communicate the proposed visual elements during the pre-production phase. This Games Art degree will give you the opportunity to experience a range of techniques and software used in the games industry, whilst developing specialist skills to support career goals within your chosen art role.

Key features

• Gain hands-on industry experience while you study, with industry opportunities built into the course to ensure you graduate with the practical skills needed to make it in the industry.

• Use industry-standard equipment: Learn how to use specialist tech and equipment including Wacom tablets, Autodesk Maya and Unreal Engine 5.

• Work on live briefs: set by industry giants to boost your CV and industry connections. Previous students have worked on briefs from big names including Sumo Digital and Mantic Games.

• Study in the heart of Nottingham: One of Europe’s top 25 student cities, and home to over 75,000 learners.

Employability

After completing your foundation degree, you’ll have the chance to top up to BA (Hons) Games Art or go straight into industry.

Students who complete the programme can progress to relevant employment, self-employment or to further study. Graduates of this course can apply their expertise in vocational areas such as:

• games artist

• concept artist

• lead artist

• 3D modeller

• character artist

• 2D artist

• technical artist

• texture artist

• UI artist

• environment artist

• storyboard artist

• games designer

• graphic designer for games.

Facilities

On this course you’ll study across various facilities located on our City Campus.

You'll have access to:

• Industry Spec Workstation PC’s

• Unreal Engine 5

• Autodesk Suite (3DS Max, Autodesk Maya, Mudbox)

• Adobe Creative Suite, Photoshop

• Z-Brush

• Quixel 2.0

• Unreal Engine 5

• Wacom Cintiq 13HD Touch Tablets

• Wacom Cintiq Pro16: Creative Pen Display

• Games Consoles

• Substance Painter.

Year One
Designing a game world (20 credit points)
Building a game world (20 Credit Points)
Industry Collaboration: Pre-Production (20 Credit Points)
Industry Collaboration: Production (20 Credit Points)
Games artist toolkit (20 Credit Points)
Critical & contextual studies (20 Credit Points)

Year Two
Building Alliances (40 Credit Points)
Real Worlds (40 Credit Points)
Games Artist Toolkit (20 Credit Points)
Industry Practice (20 credit points)