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Qualification
Foundation Degree - FD
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Location
Leeds City College
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
08-SEP-25
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Duration
2 Years
Course summary
Get ready to delve into the exciting world of video games with our Game Art Foundation Degree. You will explore prop creation, game environment creation, modular assets, high polygon sculpture and character art as you learn to create assets in a variety of workflows and styles. Work alongside peers to create games to ensure your projects reflect industry practice.
About the course
Explore current game art practice and technological advances ensuring you stay up to date with current industry techniques. You will learn how to critically analyse artwork and apply this knowledge to your own game art creations. To reflect industry practice we promote the use of agile workflows and industry events such as Game Jams and Game Societies.
As you progress through this course you will work across a wide range of projects, developing the workflows required to create game-ready assets. You will create environments and props and will sculpt realistic game characters. Additionally, youll learn how to implement these assets into a game engine, bringing your creations to life.
We emphasise employability so your studies will be tailored to meet industry standards and adopt industry workflows. You will use professional software and tools to create game art and will render high-quality images for use.
Upon completion of this Foundation Degree, students can choose to progress to a full BA (Hons) Game Art Top-up Degree. This program includes an additional year of study for full-time students and two years for part-time students. Alternatively, you may seek relevant employment in the following roles:
- Character artist
- Environment artist
- Weapons artist
- Prop artist
- 3D artist
- 3D generalist
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Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.
University information
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Campus address
Leeds City College, University Centre Leeds, Park Lane, Leeds, Leeds, LS3 1AA, England