BA (Hons) 3D Games Art & Design with Optional Sandwich Placement/ Study Abroad BA (Hons). Course length Full Time, 3 Years Sandwich, 4 Years . 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. Year 2 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. Year 3 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.

Employment opportunities include computer animation companies, work with games, TV and film special effects companies. Our graduates work and freelance with some of the worlds best known production and post production houses.