Game Art (Hons) University of South Wales

Overview

You’ll develop traditional art skills alongside cutting-edge digital artwork. Your studies will also explore professional and theoretical elements of the games industry.

The Game Art (Hons) degree from University of South Wales includes professional live briefs, competitions, game jams and project collaborations with other courses such as Games Design and Computer Animation to design, develop and publish games for PC, console and mobile games. 

Our award-winning students have gone on to work for big-name studios including Ubisoft, Supermassive Games, Sega, Climax Games, Codemasters, Airship, Rockstar and more.

Typical Career Paths Include; Environment and level art, character art and design, concept art development, hard surface 3d modelling (weapons, vehicles), organic 3d modelling and further study e.g. MA, Msc.

Career

The appetite for more visually realistic and imaginative games means that skilled and professional game artists are in demand in a number of areas including environment art, character art, concept design and vehicle production.

You will have the skills to work within game art, game design, animation, indie development and teaching.

Graduates have been employed at a range of cutting-edge computer game studios including Ubisoft, Creative Assembly, Rebellion, Codemasters, TT Games, Climax Games, Supermassive Games, Sega and Airship Images.