MA Game Art with Pre-Masters

This course delivers the expertise required to professionalise the production of artistic elements for highly polished game projects. The course facilitates graduates in character production, environmental design, 3D design software, game engines, and game-based research to build a professional art portfolio with an enhanced specialist skill set.
This course emphasises projects and portfolio work to allow you to demonstrate skills through content development and portfolio pieces.The course will train you in the character and creature production workflows, from the concept phase through to full game engine implementation.Explore Game Engine technologies with a focus on the use Unreal Engine 5 to create highly detailed real-time Environmental Art.Develop strong 2D & 3D design work, including Software packages such as Adobe Suite, Autodesk Maya, Substance Painter, and ZBrush.Collaborate with students across the Games and Media department to put together highly specialised teams with strengths in programming, design, art, and audio.

The standard entry requirement for this programme is an honours degree of at least 2:2 classification in a Games, Arts & Design or Computer Science related subject area, or equivalent in any science-based degree with a strong creative digital element.

Applicants with substantial commercial or industrial experience, or graduates coming from non-Computing backgrounds can be accepted, subject to interview and references.

Equivalent to a UK bachelor’s degree at 2.2.