14/12/2010

UCAS Uni Choices

De Montford University
Course Title - Games art design
Course Level - BA Honours
Entry Requirements - 240 UCAS points

Description
  • Critical Games Studies is the analytical study of computer games, focusing on significant and influential games, and relating computer games to other media and culture
  • Game Production is the practical exploration of content creation, including character, environment and vehicle modelling, and using game engines for level creation
  • Visual Design develops essential game art skills, such as life drawing, sculpting, painting, idea generation and visualisation.
Type of work
The games design curriculum focuses on content creation with three distinct themes:
•Game Production covers the practical exploration of content creation, including 3D modelling, character design, environment design and working in collaborative teams to produce complete, playable game projects
•Visual Design develops fundamental art skills, such as life drawing and digital painting. Artwork is developed using a range of traditional and digital tools and techniques
•Critical Game Studies uses a combination of online Web 2.0 and real-life guest lectures and seminars to help you develop an understanding of the significance of game culture, art, technology and business/industry.

Why i would like this course
Focuses on the main industry in which I would like to have a career and on a more traditional art basis rather than completely computerised rendering it focuses more on the concept art and character art as appose to the rendering and movement of those objects/ characters

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