Games Art and Design

University of Hertfordshire

Overview

• The Games Art and Design   degree from University of Hertfordshire allows you to develop your Games Art  and Design skills and knowledge to a professional level.
• You can study this course online or on campus.
• You will produce a commercial-standard personal portfolio that reflects the forefront of current practices in approach, style and vision.
• Explore the theoretical and contextual understanding of games art, its audiences and significances in our contemporary media culture.
• Develop professional-level enquiry, research, creative invention, project planning and management practices.
• On this masters degree you will learn in a multi-disciplinary environment through discussion and the exploration of ideas.
• See our MA Games Art Vimeo Page for showreels and alumni activity.

Why choose this course?

The current games art and design practitioner is likely to become a specialist in one area, such as character modelling, environment creation, lighting, animating etc. This award fuses technical knowledge of real-time rendering with the aesthetic decisions and traditional skills you will need as a games artist.

On this postgraduate Games Art and Design degree, your study will include ways of 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. Through your study you will develop a range of project management skills, and an ability to identify and manage your own learning. You will consider the role of enterprise opportunities in commercial, professional and social environments. Enquiry, research and clear communication underpin work throughout the programme. As well as specialist modules in your chosen discipline area the programme includes modules that are shared with other postgraduate awards in the School of Creative Arts.

The structure of MA Games Art and Design promotes cross-discipline discussion and maintains the enthusiasm and focus of discipline specialists. It enables you to develop the key transferable skills of postgraduate study grounded in activities that have currency, relevance and application for your future career and for further academic study.