Search For A Star 2024 : Games VFX Winners
Looking back at this year’s winners in more detail, we hear what our industry judges thought of the Games VFX winners.
A huge thanks to all of the devs who took the time to sit on our judging panels and interview all of the finalists, and a well-earned congratulations to our winners this year!
Search For A Star & Rising Star are our annual gamedev challenges to help students create portfolio work to a professional brief, get direct industry feedback, and get noticed by games studios. You can learn more about the challenges here.
Grads In Games are only able to run Search For A Star due to the support of the games industry and by being able to help graduates into their first roles. We work to support many of these students for months both before and after the challenges, so if you represent a games studio & would like to learn more about working with any of our SFAS winners, finalists, or Ones To Watch, please get in touch with the grad desk here at Aardvark Swift as we’d love to tell you all about them!
Search For A Star 2024
Games VFX Winner
Mishel Soghoyan
University of Hertfordshire
SFAS Games VFX Judging panel
Iryna Tkach, Senior VFX Artist at Fuse Games
Helen Andrzejowska, Senior Producer at Secret Mode
“Mishel has great visual skills and amazing eye for detail. She’s very passionate about VFX, great at colour theory and her effects show good colour combinations, depth and timing. Mishel is great at articulating and sharing her vision, brings many good ideas and would be a strong creative fit for any project – she would make a great art director in future!“
After impressing the project assessors with her combination of a strong visual style and great technical skills, Mishel won the final judges over too with her creativity and excellent approach to development.
See Mishel’s portfolio here: https://www.artstation.com/vishalem
Rising Star 2024
Games VFX Winner
Evan Goddard
Rising Star Games Animation & VFX Judging panel
Sankalp Sharma, Animator at Lucid Games
John Stopforth, Head of Education at Escape Technology
Ben Marriott, Game Animator at Awe Interactive
“Evan is ambitious with a confident presentation and work process, getting a good result. Creating a playable prototype project is really impressive, he knows exactly what he’s doing and understands the VFX pipeline. Evan is a really talented person and has a bright future in games VFX!”
Evan’s background knowledge in film VFX proved a huge benefit in creating his games VFX project, impressing the assessors with his strong understanding of workflow and technical approach. Coming to the final interview, our judges felt similarly and could see the huge potential that Evan has in games VFX!
