Looking back at this year’s winners in more detail, we hear what our industry judges thought of the Games VFX winners. A huge thanks to all of the devs who took the time to sit on our judging panels and interview all of the finalists, and a well-earned congratulations to our winners this year! Search […]
The assessments have been completed and we have our finalists selection for this year’s Search For A Star and Rising Star challenges in Games VFX! Our vfx category is designed to help students create a high level portfolio project based on a studio brief and workflow, and then getting industry feedback from our assessment team […]
Check out our Games VFX student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2024! With a strong combination of both artistic and technical ability, VFX for games is an area that can really deliver some spectacular results! We say this every year, but realtime games VFX is still an area that a lot […]
Congratulations to Charlie Shaw from the University of Huddersfield, our winner of the Games VFX category in Search For A Star 2023!
The assessments have been received back and we have our finalists selection for this year’s Search For A Star challenge in the Animation and VFX categories! We’ll be interviewing all the finalists and revealing the winners of this year’s challenges as part of our Search For A Star finals event, on April 13th in Sheffield. […]
Check out our Games VFX student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2023! Realtime VFX for games is an area that’s in huge demand across the industry, though it’s still an area that most universities don’t provide any specialisation in. As a result, we rarely see more than a few entries in […]
This week we’re going to be showcasing all of the student projects from Search For A Star & d3t Rising Star 2021. First up, one of our favourite categories, the visually and technically impressive Games VFX! Ever since we added the VFX challenge four years ago it’s always been one of the least represented in […]
Congratulations to Elie van Ravels from Howest DAE, our Games VFX winner of Sumo Digital Rising Star 2020! Elie reached the finals after creating a great VFX sequence for the project stage, impressing our Search For A Star Animation assessors with a complex multi-part shield sequence! Elie discussed his technical skills, VFX knowledge and ambitions […]
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 […]
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 […]