Check out our Games Character Art student projects for Rising Star 2024!

In the Rising Star tier, all students are either undergraduates who won’t be finishing uni until at least 2025, or are currently at college or school level. You can also check out the Search For A Star tier (final year & masters students) here.

For their 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

Rising Star
Graduating 2025 or later, or are currently at college or school level.

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Rising Star Character Art Projects 2024

Graduating 2025 or later, or are currently at college or school level.

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Amelia (Yujiujiu) Yang

Middlesex University London

Despair

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Chloe Fields

Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies

Neon Punk WIP

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Darnell Brown

University of South Wales

Nicholas

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Dylan Bryn Jones

University of South Wales

Aquatic Punk WIP

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Faith Quick

Priestley College

Lillian The Dragon WIP

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Giada Lupinetti

Teesside University

Ever-Changing God

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