This course aims to help you learn to create game art that combines creativity and coding skills, building immersive environments for interactive adventures.
Are you an aspiring games artist ready to master visual storytelling, design immersive environments and understand how art drives gameplay within a collaborative industry? If yes, then this course could be the right fit for you.
Learn visualisation techniques for character, environment and concept design.
Explore storytelling, spatial design, anatomy and world-building.
Develop industry-ready art skills in a studio-style setting.
Why you should study this course
Learn to master visual development for games, from concept sketches to fully realised characters and environments.
Work with animators and illustrators to sharpen drawing, perspective and storytelling skills.
Experiment with VR/AR and cutting-edge tools like Unreal Engine and Unity.
Tailor your creative practice with opportunities for placements or international study.
Build a standout portfolio with support from industry-savvy tutors and studio-style projects.
Where our graduates work
As a graduate, you may find employment as a character designer, animator, environment designer or concept artist. Previous graduates have started successful careers in the games industry, this includes working for the likes of Rocksteady and Applio.
Some students may choose to enter the teaching profession after PGCE study and others go into further study: into our own postgraduate programmes or elsewhere within the UK or internationally.
Please visit our website for the most up-to-date information.
This course has a common first year.
The common first year enables you to work alongside students doing similar courses to you, to widen your knowledge and exposure to other subject areas and professions. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with other students, so you can share your insights and experience which will help you to develop and learn.
If you discover an interest in a specific subject you have studied, upon successful completion of your first year, you could swap degrees with another course in your common first year (subject to meeting progression requirements).
Year One Modules:
Hack Lab and Creative Play
Interactive Narratives and Immersive Experiences
Concept Development, Prototyping and Design
Skills Lab
Year Two Modules:
Experimental Games Project
The Creative Workshop
Environment Design and Storytelling
Digital Painting and Concept Art for Games Development
Sandwich Year:
There’s no better way to find out what you love doing than trying it out for yourself, which is why a work placement2 can often be beneficial. Work placements usually occur between your second and final years of study. They’re a great way to help you explore your potential career path and gain valuable work experience, whilst developing transferable skills for the future.
Final Year Modules:
Designing Game Worlds: Theory, Art and Innovation
Signature Project: Defining Your Game Art Style
Illustration for Games: Concept and Promotional Art
Professional Game Art Portfolio
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
Coventry University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.
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| Location | Fee | Year |
|---|---|---|
| England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Channel Islands & Republic of Ireland | £9790* | |
| EU & International | £20800* |
* This is a provisional fee and subject to change.
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website.
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