BA Honours Games Art

The Games Art BA will provide you with the creative skills and technical knowledge needed to design visual assets in game environments, youll design the characters, objects and backgrounds that make games come to life. This course will prepare you to become a confident games artist who can create visuals and user experience design applicable across a wide range of industries and emerging technologies.

Youll seek new approaches and audiences that have a global reach, consider the representation of characters in games and reflect on equality, diversity and inclusion in games. The course will explore established and emerging industries that use games for entertainment and for social enhancement (e.g. educational games).

To reflect the professional game development workplace, where skilled professionals from different disciplines work together, the Games Art BA has embedded collaboration with students on other courses such as Graphic Design BA, Illustration BA, Animation BA, and most importantly our sister course the Computer Games Development BSc. Through this inter-disciplinary collaboration, youll gain valuable experience of hands-on working with colleagues in different fields on the games pipeline.

A levels – CCC (96 UCAS Tariff points) T levels – 96 UCAS Tariff points International Baccalaureate – 96 UCAS Tariff points from all components of the Diploma Programme. International Baccalaureate Career-related Programme will be considered on a case-by-case basis BTEC Extended Diploma – MMM BTEC Diploma – DD Access – 96 UCAS Tariff points from the Access course IELTS – 6.0 overall with a minimum 5.5 in each component. TOEFL – 78 overall with a minimum of 17 in Listening, and Writing, 18 in Reading and 20 in Speaking.