Today our interviewers are speaking with each of our Environment Art finalists across both Search For A Star & d3t Rising Star! We’ll be revealing the winners of this year’s challenges as part of Games Careers Week, live on our Twitch channel from 12.30pm on April 1st We’ve had a range of fantastic submissions this […]
This week we speak with Milan De Laet, SFASX Environment Art 2020 winner!
We catch up with Search for a Star 2020 Character Art winner Beccy Collins!
Congratulations to Milan De Laet from Howest Digital Arts & Entertainment, our Character Art winner of Search For A Star 2020! Milan took the top spot in the project stage with his dramatic Trapped environment, earning a place in the finals. Our assessors were very impressed by Milan’s great scene composition and the technical challenge […]
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 […]
For 2020 we received more submissions in Environment Art than ever before, smashing the previous record by almost triple! With 90 games art student projects to review, it’s been a mammoth task for our assessors this year, and we hugely appreciate their input and feedback! We have a massive range in submissions too, from epic […]
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 […]
We’re close to the big finale of our Search For A Star student gamedev challenges, so it’s time to introduce you to the lovely judges for the final stage!
The 2019 Finalists revealed! These are some of the most talented students across games programming, character art, environment art, animation and games VFX, from universities across the UK and Europe.
The Search for a Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star 2018 challenges have come to a close. 2018 has been one of the best so far, with such a high calibre of students that even getting to the finals was a close challenge, let alone our judges having to make a final decision on the […]