Search For A Star Environment Art, presented in partnership with d3t and Coconut Lizard Check out our Games Environment Art student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2024! For their Search For A Star projects, our student artists were asked to create a small environment scene to an industry brief, spending around […]
Check out our Games Animation student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2024! For their Search For A Star projects, our student animators were asked to create a character movement sequence to an industry brief, based around key actions typical of games animation. Everyone is given creative control of the model, rig […]
Check out our Games Programming student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2024! For their challenge projects, our student programmers were given a very basic prototype of a rotational puzzle game and tasked with building on the codebase to add new features and mechanics, developed in C++. Everyone is given creative control […]
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 […]
Once again we’d like to give a huge thanks to everyone in our Search For A Star Assessment Team! We’ve had over 200 project submissions this year, so it’s no small task to get them all assessed and provide feedback. Our assessors do a huge job in working through all of the projects, and Search […]
Last week we ran a special ‘QA Week’ for those taking part in Search For A Star and Rising Star, encouraging everyone to share their work in progress and get feedback and testing from the other participants. After the responses and discussions of QA week a lot of these pieces are now reaching completion (plus […]
d3t and its sister studio Coconut Lizard are award-winning, co-development studios in the game technology sector, with d3t based in Cheshire and Coconut Lizard in Newcastle. As co-development partners and part of the Keywords Studios group, both studios specialise in adding value to games, and are credited on titles such as EA SPORTS FC™ 24, […]
With Search For A Star and Rising Star now in full swing, let’s have a look at how some of the students have been progressing with their projects this week! Right now pretty much everyone is still in the early stages of design, prototyping, concept development and initial blockouts, but there’s already some great work […]
We’re very happy to welcome XR Games, joining GiG as a Supporting Partner for the 2023/24 academic year! XR Games have been a fantastic supporter of Grads In Games for a few years now, regularly featuring on our careers talks and at our Search For A Star finals, as well as taking on multiple high […]
We’re very pleased to welcome Adobe to Grads In Games this year, as a prize provider for the 2024 Search For A Star & Rising Star challenges! In their role as Prize Provider, Adobe are generously providing one year subscriptions to the Substance 3D collection for the winners of SFAS & RS Environment Art, Character […]