Game Art - BA (Hons)
University of South Wales
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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, ...Read more

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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83/279
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25th
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77th
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M
Mary
24 Nov 25

At the moment a few of the facilities such as the lifts are broken regularly. Which is understandable for the amount of students but, besides that I wish there were more societies..Read more

L
Lewis
24 Nov 25

I don't fully understand how to use the support facilities but the support I've received from staff has been great. A lot of the online student facilities are confusing and aren't..Read more

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£9,790 per year

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£16,200 per year

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M
Mary
24 Nov 25
Game Art - BA (Hons)
At the moment a few of the facilities such as the lifts are broken regularly. Which is understandable for the amount of students but, besides that I wish there were more societies...
Read more
L
Lewis
24 Nov 25
Game Art - BA (Hons)
I don't fully understand how to use the support facilities but the support I've received from staff has been great. A lot of the online student facilities are confusing and aren't...
Read more
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University of South Wales
University of South Wales , Pontypridd

With more than 23,000 students and 2,700 staff, the University of South Wales (USW) is one of the largest universities in Wales, and...

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