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 and narrative, allowing full freedom of expression. The only conditions were that the sequence should follow 4 games-typical steps (idle, charge, release, recover), and fit one of this year’s four themes :

Crowd Pleaser
Does Whatever a Hero Can
Get To Cover
Disciplined Fighter

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

Our assessment team of games animators from across the industry are currently hard at work reviewing all of the project submissions and providing feedback, and the highest achieving students will be chosen to move forward to our finals day event in April.

The Search For A Star challenges are run by Grads In Games with the support of our our studio partners at d3t, 10:10 Games, Red Kite Games, Furious Bee, Steel City Interactive, PlusMusic, our supporting partners at XR Games, The National Videogame Museum and Sheffield Hallam University, our prize providers Adobe, and our recruitment partners at Aardvark Swift

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Search For A Star & Rising Star 2024 Animation Projects

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Search For A Star Animation Projects 2024

Final year & post-graduate Masters students, graduating in 2024.

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Brendon Chadwick

Falmouth University

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Corin Astles

University of the West of England

Link Block & Hit

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Martin Karazarwe

Middlesex University London

Deadpool Crowd Pleaser

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Maryam Al-Nasser

Glasgow Caledonian University

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Philip Do

Middlesex University London

Ganon Disciplined Fighter

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Taylor Gibbons

Falmouth University

Crash Landing Dragon Attack

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Wimula Kanchela

University of Huddersfield

Ancient King

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Rising Star Animation Projects 2024

Undergraduate students graduating in 2025 or later, or college/school level students.

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Adam Fakla

Futuregames

Azri Slide

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James Picton

Teesside University

Get To Cover!

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Maja Bogdanienko

Breda University of Applied Sciences

Execution

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