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Rising Star games VFX Winner 2020 - Elie Van Ravels

Sumo Digital Rising Star Games VFX Winner 2020 : Elie Van Ravels

May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 Dan Dudley 0

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 […]

Posted in Games, Games VFX, News, Search For A Star, SFAS WinnersElie Van Ravels Games VFX Howest DAE Rising Star SFASX
Reece Kuby - Search For A Star 2020 Winner Games VFX

SFASX Games VFX Winner 2020 : Reece Kuby

May 4, 2020May 4, 2020 Dan Dudley 0

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 […]

Posted in Games VFX, News, Search For A Star, SFAS WinnersGames VFX Reece Kuby SFASX University of Huddersfield
SFASX Games VFX Projects 2020

Games VFX Projects | SFASX

March 12, 2020March 18, 2020 Dan Dudley 0

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 […]

Posted in Games VFX, Projects, Search For A StarGames VFX SFASX
Search For A Star 2019 Judges

Search For A Star 2019 : The Final Stage Judges

April 11, 2019April 11, 2019 Rosey Asquith 0

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!

Posted in Art, Games, Games VFX, News, Search For A StarAaron Miller Andrew Greensmith Andria Warren Andy Murray Anthony Marmont Anthony O Donnell Apple Ben Cottage Ben Merrick Boss Alien Bulkhead Interactive Chris Carr Chris Downey Claire McClaughry Craig Wright Cris Lonergan-White Dom Hood Firesprite Furious Bee Gary Edwards Grant Bolton Greg Booker Jason Fielder Kevin Martin Lee Taylor Lizi Attwood Michael Iorizzo Microsoft Rare nDreams Peter Harrap Philip Howlett Red Kite Games Rob Berry Splash Damage Steve Wilding Sumo Digital TT Odyssey Vidas Remkevicius wargaming Well Played Games
Search For A Star + Sumo Digital Rising Star : The Finalists 2019

Search For A Star + Sumo Digital Rising Star 2019; The Finalists

April 3, 2019April 15, 2019 Rosey Asquith 0

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.

Posted in Art, Games, Games Animation, Games VFX, News, Projects, Search For A StarAlexander McCunn Bradley Cullen Caleb O'Brien Chris Rhodes Eliot Stevens Ellie Brown Jack Walker James Caskey Jason Morley Jeevan Pattar Jimmy Ghysens Maciej Osuch Maria Camenzuli Melissa Hamer Milan Kurovsky Musa Binboga Nick Pearson Oliver Fayers Pui Pui Lee Reece Parrinder Ruben Chatha Ryan Ashfield Saif Munawar Samuel Johnson Samuel Sharpe Scott Leatherbarrow SFAS Finalists SFAS19 Stylianos Thomaidis Tahar Meijs Tiernan Watson Timothy Sanderson Zachray Cundall
Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star 2018 : The Winners

Search for a Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star 2018 – The Winners!

April 10, 2018 Alex 0

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 […]

Posted in Art, Articles, Games, Games Animation, Games VFX, News, Search For A Star, SFAS WinnersAdelaide Coldham Boss Alien Cloud Imperium Futureworks Get In The Game Grads In Games Howest Jacob Beckley Jimmy Ghysens Joe Bamber John Green Kial Oliver-Gibson nDreams Newcastle University NHTV Programming Rising Star Robert Arnold Saif Munawar Search For A Star SFAS18 Shannon Symonds Sheffield Hallam University Southampton Solent Sumo Digital UCLAN Unity University of Hertfordshire University of Huddersfield
Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star Finalists 2018

Search for a Star 2018 Meet the Finalists – VFX

April 2, 2018April 4, 2018 Alex 0

Meet the Finalists – VFX It has been almost 6 months since this year’s Search for a Star started accepting its 1st Round of submissions back in September last year. Now, with Final’s Day almost upon us, we have whittled things down to a handful of amazing finalists. You have already been able to read […]

Posted in Games VFX, Search For A Starfinalists games development Graduates Rising Star Search For A Star SFAS18 UCLAN University of Huddersfield
Search for a Star 2018 Meet the Final's Day Judges

Search for a Star 2018 Meet the Final’s Day Judges

March 29, 2018March 29, 2018 Alex 0

One of the most important features of Search for a Star is the support of games professionals. Their expert knowledge informs the challenges; their feedback on the submissions makes a real difference to entrants, and their years of industry experience make them the perfect judges to conduct the interviews at Finals Day. You have already […]

Posted in Art, Articles, Games, Games Animation, Games VFX, News, Search For A StarBoss Alien Creative Assembly d3t Exient Finals Day Furious Bee nDreams Programming Red Kite Games Rising Star Search For A Star SFAS17 SFAS18 Splash Damage Sumo Digital
Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star Finalists 2018

Search for a Star 2018 – Finalists Confirmed

March 22, 2018March 29, 2018 Alex 0

Search for a Star 2018 – Finalists Confirmed With Final’s Day a little over 2 weeks away we are proud to announce the full list of this year’s lucky challenge Finalists. With months of hard work behind them, these lucky few will progress to Final’s Day, at Sheffield Hallam University. There they will face an expert […]

Posted in Art, Articles, Games, Games Animation, Games VFX, News, Search For A StarAbertay University Art ArtStation Bradford University Brunel University finalists Futureworks Media School Graduates Howest Newcastle University NHTV Programming Ravensbourne Rising Star Search For A Star SFAS Finalists SFAS18 Sheffield Hallam University Southampton Solent University Sumo Digital UCL UCLAN University of Hertfordshire University of Huddersfield UWE
Search For A Star 2018 Games VFX Directory

Stage 2 VFX Entries | Search For A Star 2018

March 13, 2018March 13, 2018 Dan Dudley 0

For 2018 we had three submissions for the Stage 2 Games VFX projects, each creating a chained sequence of game effects to an industry brief. All were given creative control over the style and theme of their artwork, leading to three distinctively different but excellent pieces. Jacob Beckley Adam Phillips Reece Kuby Search For A […]

Posted in Games VFX, Search For A StarAdam Phillips Games VFX Jacob Beckley Reece Kuby SFAS18

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