BA (Hons) Concept Art for Games and Film (with a placement year) Bachelor's degree at Staffordshire

The games industry is a melting pot of different creative and technical roles. In this module, you will begin your journey as a games developer in training, understanding the roles and career opportunities within the games industry and beyond. You will also be exposed to the reality of the industry, exploring the ethical, economic, and societal impact of games. We will also support you in the creation of a career action plan, helping you to develop as an independent learner.

Video games are interdisciplinary pieces of interactive art that require a range of specialist skills. The majority of the games that you have played will have been developed by a team of individuals. Games Developers rarely work alone. This module will challenge you to capitalise on your skills and individual creativity while working with a mixed disciplinary team of games developers. Beyond developing a video games artefact, you will be exposed to the tools, practices, and transferable skills

Games Art and Concept Art both make extensive use of 3D modelling, texturing and rendering. This module will introduce you to the techniques used in industry to produce assets for a variety of uses.

This module has been designed to provide a solid foundation for the fundamentals of character design. With an emphasis on visual shape language, nonverbal communication and narrative ques, this module will allow students to tackle character design for a variety of industries.

This module will help you to build a solid theoretical foundation to expand upon and refine your digital painting skills and intuition, allowing you to visually communicate and present concepts in a more compelling way.

Learn the fundamental skills and industry practises that inform the skills required to produce Environment Concept designs. You will produce design sheets and the necessary callout sheets that convey the visual characteristics of the design.

Students will learn how to look and observe with artistic intent to reproduce using digital media. They will learn to assess light and shadow, capturing shape and form through observational drawing, which they will then apply to their own designs. They will learn how to self-critique and evaluate their own progress.

This module provides practical traditional workshop experience of working from primary sources: a demand invigorated by needs of new industries. It focuses on producing realistic, believable figures that convey appropriate physicality diversity such as body mass, gender, age, strengths, skills, body adornment etc. It also seeks to address to common problem areas such as hands, feet, likeness, and foreshortening /perspective to ultimate give you a vital edge in the competitive job market. This mo

On this module you will explore the fundamentals of creature design, study animal anatomy and delve into key aspects for crafting visually compelling and believable creatures. Additionally, you will learn to identify technical aspects of the creature design pipeline to ensure your designs successfully translate from 2D concepts to 3D sculpts.

This module has been developed to provide student with a solid foundation in digital sculpting. Utilised by a variety of industries, a proficient digital sculptor can open career pathways in games, film, practical effects and product design. Digital sculpting is the crossover between artistic expression and technological fluency, as such, this module has been designed to develop a students artistic progression in the medium and to navigate the technical considerations for the use of industry sof

Students will work in a junior role in a group comprised of students from across the suite of games development courses to mimic a games development studio. They will work with other juniors and level 6 students who take the role of seniors, to make a vertical slice of a game.

Lifedrawing: Colour and Costume adds these features to the practical traditional workshop experience of working from primary sources to enhance an audiences perception of the reality the student is portraying. It focuses on producing believable characters based on observation and working with our team of professional models. It addresses commonly avoided areas such as a full range of dynamic flesh colours and pose with 360° views. This module features regularly clothed and unclothed models.

This module will allow the student to partake in the classic art educational practise of studies and masters studies. They will reproduce, using digital painting techniques, various reference images. After this, they will adapt what they have painted into new original concept design.

Learn the specific techniques and skills required to design cars, bikes, aircraft, spaceships, weapons and more. Ideation thumbnailing will then move onto considering form following function and the ways that designs can be rendered in clear detail.

This module gives you an opportunity to focus your studies on developing an industry standard portfolio piece of Games Art or Concept Art in answer to a given or live brief from the industry e.g., a Games Studio.

The Games Development Project module gives students an opportunity to undertake an in-depth piece of research testing and analysis or a high-quality artefact, ready for their portfolio. You can focus your studies on your career aspirations. Whether it's stylised game characters, stalking AI monsters, procedural environments, immersive level design, or a concept for futuristic vehicles. The project allows you the opportunity to work with a supervisor and tailor the project to you. Your supervisor

Students will work in a senior role in a group comprised of students from across the suite of games development courses to mimic a games development studio. They will work with other seniors to effectively support and lead a team including level 5 students, to make a vertical slice of a game.

As a concept artist wanting to specialise in creature design it is important that you develop a keen understanding in animal anatomy and how to implement it in your designs. This module will introduce you to advanced sculptural techniques and observational skills that will allow you to produce professional creature designs that are grounded in realism.

Do you want to find your own voice and expand on your previous character and creature design knowledge? On this module you will delve into cultivating your creativity, individual workflow, and style to create immersive and believable characters and creatures with an awareness for the worlds that they live in.

This is an exciting opportunity to learn real-world practical skills in high demand in the creative industries to create outstanding Environment design for production. This class is designed to develop your skill in creating outstanding concept art aimed at emulating real-world briefs and focused on delivering exceptional work at a high standard fit to be your opening page of your portfolio. This module will take you through setting up your creative tools, building 3D asset libraries and finally

This is your chance to develop the skill to realise story-driven key frame illustration for Film and games. Using advanced 3D techniques focused on industry standards you will deliver a set of key illustrations to an industry brief the will reflect a narrative brief supplied. The class is focused on developing your skill in interpreting a narrative brief and developing high quality pre-production key frame illustrations that will assist in setting the tonality of a production. The module worksho