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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Cardiff
Full Time
SEP-26
3 Years
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Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Cardiff
Full Time
SEP-26
3 Years
Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Cardiff Campus
Full Time
SEP-26
3 Years
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If you want to become a skilled and professional game artist, our BA (Hons) Game Art degree develops the creative and technical skills you will need. 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 course 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.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.
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£9,790 per year
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£9,790 per year
Students from England
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£9,790 per year
Students from Scotland
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£9,790 per year
Students from Wales
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£9,790 per year
Students from Northern Ireland
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£9,790 per year
Students from EU
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£16,200 per year
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