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Games Animation | SFAS23

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Games Animation | SFAS23

February 21, 2023 Dan Dudley 0

Our Games Animation student projects for Search For A Star & Rising Star 2023!

Although most uni courses tend to focus only animation for film and TV, realtime games animation is still a hugely important area of study. Good animation brings life to games and is often one of the key things that create the most memorable, immersive gaming experiences. Being able to create great animation is a huge mix of technical and creative skills, but developing them for use in realtime games is another skillset on top of that!

For their Search For A Star & Rising Star projects, our student animators were asked to create a movement sequence to an industry brief, based around key actions typical of games animation. Everyone is given creative control of the model, rig and narrative, allowing full freedom of expression.

The three theme options for this year’s sequence were Aerial Assault, Beast Mode and Cautious Approach.

A huge congratulations to everyone who submitted their projects, and well done to everyone who took part!

The Search For A Star challenges are run by Grads In Games with the support of our headline partner Yahaha, and our studio partners at Cloud Imperium, d3t, 10:10 Games, Red Kite Games, Furious Bee, Escape Technology & our recruitment partners at Aardvark Swift.


Search For A Star 2023 Projects

Final year & post-graduate Masters students, graduating in 2023.

Alvin Oblitey
Joel Tilling
Karla Tanner
Katherine Lindhorst
Siobhan Foster

Rising Star Projects

Undergraduate students graduating in 2024 or later, or college/school level students.

Philip Do


Search For A Star 2023
Games Animation Projects


Alvin Oblitey

Staffordshire University

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Joel Tilling

Sheffield Hallam University

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Karla Tanner

Staffordshire University

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Katherine Lindhorst

Teesside University

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Siobhan Foster

Staffordshire University

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Rising Star
Games Animation Projects 2023


Philip Do

Middlesex University



Article By Dan Dudley

Marketing + community + support person. Lots of behind-the-scenes bits here at Grads In Games & with Search For A Star. If you need help with anything, you can usually find me over on the Grads In Games Discord or email dan@gradsingames.com

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