Games Art and Design

This MA Games Art and Design degree fromUniversity of Hertfordshire meets the needs of the games industry. The games industry has developed dramatically from the days of the solo practitioner to become a global market where large teams of artists work in unison to create content for the next generation of interactive game technologies.

The Games Art and Designprogram from University of Hertfordshire fuses technical knowledge of real-time rendering with the aesthetic decisions and traditional skills you will need as a games artist.

On this MA Games Art and Design course, you will also explore thinking about the cultural resonance of your work and about the audiences it is made for, about the nature of creativity, and the role of the cultural industries in a modern knowledge economy. Enquiry, research and clear communication being key elements that underpin this course.

What will I study?

• This course supports students who want to specialise in areas such as character design, hard-surface modelling, environment design or lighting and texturing as well as those who want to be generalists. We support all the standard software packages used in the industry and are constantly updating the range of technical instruction we offer.

• On this degree, teaching and learning is mainly based around enquiry-led project work, allowing you to develop the independence and autonomy that is required at the postgraduate level.

• This degree will be delivered through a mix of lectures, seminars and workshop where you will participate in multi-disciplinary group discussions to share, challenge and develop ideas, as well as being able to grow and expand specific discipline centered skills and understanding.

• You will also receive tutorials to develop your individual study trajectories and responses to assignment tasks and briefs.

Careers

• Particular emphasis is given to providing you with the skills necessary to further your career in the Games Industry either as a specialist or generalist.

• This includes such positions as modelers, texture and lighting artists, character and environment designers. The course is designed to help you understand and work within the contemporary media environment.

• You will also acquire enquiry and information handling skills, enterprise skills in the development and presentation of ideas, in communicating in the spoken and written word, and addressing particular audiences.

Courses include:

• Practice: Developing Skills

• Digital Media: Sources and Significance

• Practice: Creative Project Development

• Exploring Professional Practice

• Major Study: Games Art and Design