Our tenth anniversary Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star have come to a close, and the 2020 winners have been revealed! It’s been another excellent year for Search For A Star and we’re proud of everyone who reached our 2020 final interviews. The level of quality across all the categories this year has […]
With many students now graduating into a job market no one had anticipated, we get some insight from Andy Driver, Operations Manager for Grads In Games, on finding and preparing for games industry jobs during the current COVID-19 situation.
This Friday we’ll be taking part in Falmouth Digital Games Expo 2020, an event run by Falmouth Games Academy to celebrate the final year projects of this year’s graduates, to showcase student portfolios, and to hear from guest industry speakers providing their own insight and guidance on the games industry. There’ll also be a virtual […]
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 Chris Woods from SAE Institute, our Games Animation winner of Search For A Star 2020! Chris reached the finals after creating a great animation sequence for the project stage, impressing our Search For A Star Animation assessors and topping both the Creative and Technical scoreboard! Chris discussed his technical skills, animation knowledge and […]
Congratulations to Justyna Kwiatkowska from the University of Central Lancashire, our Games Programming winner of Sumo Digital Rising Star 2020! Justyna topped the project stage with her excellent game development project, The Catgeon, earning her a place in the finals. Our assessors were really impressed by Justyna’s project, ranking it first overall, ahead of even […]
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 […]
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 […]
A key aspect of our Search For A Star challenges is to help improve the links between the games industry and education. We work closely with leading studios to create the challenges, based directly on the skills and knowledge those studios are looking for when hiring graduate and junior developers. By incorporating studio expectations & […]