Get In The Game Tour Diary: East / Midlands
We’ve just finished our final talk of the week at Staffordshire University, where we’ve had one of our best student turn-outs yet.
It’s been another great week for Get In The Game with a fantastic line-up of speakers, from AMD, Dovetail Games, Playground Games, Rebellion, Autodesk, Framestore, Red Kite Games and Inertia Games.
Wow, great to see so many faces at @NorwichUniArts! Looking forward to hearing @jess_magnus talk from @dovetailgames! @GradsInGames #gitg16 pic.twitter.com/c2uXa18Y7c
— James Woodward (@ASwift_James) November 14, 2016
Students at the University of Hertfordshire were treated to an animation / rigging workshop from James Thompson from Framestore after his talk about his a typical day in the life of an Assitant Technical Director; from bug fixing, to meeting and tool development, to the VFX pipeline!
Now we're going on to a workshop from James from @Framestore where he's teaching animators how to use Python! @GradsInGames #gitg16 pic.twitter.com/OqfSfS5I8u
— Sharan Bassi (@ASwift_Sharan) November 15, 2016
Students have been eager to show off their games and portfolios this week, and we offered our feedback and advice alongside Conar Cross and Jamie Wood from Playground Games.
https://twitter.com/ASwift_Sharan/status/799253190805954560
Awesome to have @WeArePlayground taking the time to review portfolios. Seeing some very impressive student work! #gitg16 @GradsInGames pic.twitter.com/RcanqZYiNc
— James Woodward (@ASwift_James) November 18, 2016
It was great to catch-up with our 2014 & 2015 Rising Star finalist Aaron Smith at Staffordshire University and hear that he’ll be entering the competition again this year!
Brilliant to catch up with our two time Rising Star finalist Aaron Smith at the @StaffsGamesDev #GITG16 talk today pic.twitter.com/f4gPLq2xRA
— Grads In Games (@GradsInGames) November 18, 2016
Thanks to all the universities we visited this week: Anglia Ruskin, Norwich University of the Arts, Hertfordshire, Gamercamp, Birmingham, Essex & Staffordshire!
Next week, we’ll be heading to the North West. Find out where we’re visiting and when
