Check out our Games Character Art student projects for Search For A Star 2024!

For their Search For A Star projects, our student artists were asked to create a character to an industry brief, evoking a story, background and personality, spending around 60-70 hours spread over several weeks. Everyone is given creative control of the narrative and style, with the only conditions being that the character should fit one of this year’s theme options :

Metamorphosis
The Big Bad
Fourth Dimensional Tourist
Opening Night
NeonPunk
Emotion Embodied

A huge congratulations to everyone who submitted their projects, and well done to everyone who took part!

Our assessment team of games artists from across the industry are currently hard at work reviewing all of the project submissions and providing feedback, and the highest achieving students will be chosen to move forward to our finals day event in April.

The Search For A Star challenges are run by Grads In Games with the support of our our studio partners at d3t, 10:10 Games, Red Kite Games, Furious Bee, Steel City Interactive, PlusMusic, our supporting partners at XR Games, The National Videogame Museum and Sheffield Hallam University, our prize providers Adobe, and our recruitment partners at Aardvark Swift

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Search For A Star & Rising Star 2024 Character Art Entrants

Search For A Star
Final year & post-graduate Masters students, graduating in 2024.

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Search For A Star Character Art Projects 2024

Final year & post-graduate Masters students, graduating in 2024.

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Aleksandra Perevezenceva

Falmouth University

Scarlet Shadow

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Arnas Klimasauskas

University for the Creative Arts

Blue Deity

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Beth Hamilton

Norwich University of the Arts

Neo – Character Bust WIP

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Candice Dennis

University for the Creative Arts

Tristitia

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Charlie Shrehorn-Middleton

University of Hertfordshire

Omni-Man

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Christiane Schaper

Howest DAE

Breathing Brushstrokes

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