Congratulations to Emily Harrison from Teesside University, our Character Art winner of Search For A Star 2020! Emily reached the final interview after scoring highly across all criteria in the project stage with her Kid character, as well as achieving the highest Creative score across the challenges. Working her way up through Sumo Digital Rising […]
Congratulations to Reece Kuby from the University of Huddersfield, our Games VFX winner of Search For A Star 2020! After scoring highly across all criteria in the project stage with his VFX energy projectile project, Lilith’s Ion, Reece made his way to the final stage interview. It’s not even the first time he’s made it […]
A key aspect of our Search For A Star challenges is to help improve the links between the games industry and education. We work closely with leading studios to create the challenges, based directly on the skills and knowledge those studios are looking for when hiring graduate and junior developers. By incorporating studio expectations & […]
Our tenth anniversary Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star have come to a close, and the 2020 winners have been revealed! It’s been another excellent year for Search For A Star and we’re proud of everyone who reached our 2020 final interviews. The level of quality across all the categories this year has […]
Next week our Search For A Star and Sumo Digital Rising Star Finalists will be facing our expert industry judges in the final stage of the challenges! This is the culmination of months of work across the 10th anniversary of Search For A Star, with students creating & publishing over 200 gamedev projects across programming, […]
We’ve had another fantastic year for Search For A Star, with over 260 games projects created by students from across the UK and Europe. We’re now reaching the final stage of the challenges, and are pleased to reveal our finalists! These students have shown high level skills and created exceptional projects over the course of […]
Due to the continuing situation with COVID-19 & for the safety of our attendees we have made the decision to cancel our upcoming Grads In Games conference, originally scheduled for the 15th April.
Games animation can be a tough career to get started in and unlike film animation, it’s not an area that most universities cover in any detail. Being able to create great animation is a huge mix of technical and creative skills, but developing them for use in games is another skillset on top of that! […]
In yet another record-breaking year, we received 49 project submissions for Character Art across both Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star! The standard of quality also reached a new high, with excellent & inventive characters created across both tiers, including Beccy Collins’ Overwatch-inspired JetPack Cat, Pearse McKenna’s Alien Explorer, Madelaine Kendall-Murray’s sinister […]
Since we first launched the Games VFX challenge in 2017, it’s been a struggle to get a large number of entrants. VFX for games isn’t something that most universities cover and there’s only a few that really go into any detail on games-specific VFX. As a result, it’s also one of the few areas where […]