At 9 am on the 22nd of April, students who had taken place in Search for a Star flocked to Sheffield Hallam University for our Finals Day Event! This served as a celebration of all the amazing work submitted to the gamedev competition but also allowed the lucky finalists to have interviews with industry professionals […]
This year saw over 1100 more students registering to take part in Search For A Star and Rising Star and what an achievement each and every individual made by getting a submission In. The dedication of our participants and the quality of their submissions is nothing short of incredible and the finalists & winners of […]
Starting with 1200 registered students, this year’s Search for A Star & Rising Star game development challenges have once again been the largest we’ve ever seen! Each challenge tasks students with completing a game project to an industry brief, either in games programming, environment art, character art, animation or VFX. Projects are reviewed by our […]
Today we take a look at our Character Art student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2022! Character Art is always one of our most popular disciplines for entries and this year is no different! As one of the core three gamedev subjects Character art is an instrumental part of Games Development. […]
Check out our Games Programming student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2022! It’s been another great year for our game development category, with another wide range of creative responses to the project brief! For their Search For A Star projects, our student programmers were given a very basic prototype of a […]
Lets take a look at our 3D environment student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2022! Environment art is one of the most popular categories in SFAS and one of the biggest art disciplines in the gaming industry! Creating a full scene can take a multitude of different skill from modelling to […]
Today we take a look at our Games Animation student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2022! Games animation, much like Games VFX, doesn’t have as much coverage at university as the core three gamedev subjects, with most courses focusing on animation for film and TV. Being able to create great animation […]
Toady we take a look at our Games VFX student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2022! VFX for games is generally an area of expertise that isn’t taught commonly at universities, but remains desperately needed in the gaming industry! It’s amazing to see entries to this category each year, and although […]
We’ve had over 1,200 people register for our Search for a Star challenges this year! Over the last few weeks, we’ve been looking at all the work in progress updates that have been posted on socials. We will be doing a weekly video showcasing all our participant’s projects – you never know who could see […]
We’ve had over 1,200 people register for our Search for a Star challenges this year! Over the last few weeks, we’ve been looking at all the work in progress updates that have been posted on socials. We will be doing a weekly video showcasing all our participant’s projects – you never know who could see […]