Search For A Star 2024 : Environment Art Winners
Search For A Star Environment Art, presented in partnership with d3t and Coconut Lizard
Looking back at this year’s winners in more detail, we hear what our industry judges thought of the Environment Art winners.
A huge thanks to all of the devs who took the time to sit on our judging panels and interview all of the finalists, and a well-earned congratulations to our winners this year!
Search For A Star & Rising Star are our annual gamedev challenges to help students create portfolio work to a professional brief, get direct industry feedback, and get noticed by games studios. You can learn more about the challenges here.
Grads In Games are only able to run Search For A Star due to the support of the games industry and helping graduates into their first roles. We work to support many of these students for months across the challenges, so if you represent a games studio & would like to learn more about any of our SFAS winners, finalists, or Ones To Watch, please get in touch as we’d love to tell you all about them!
Search For A Star 2024
Environment Art Winner
Berenika Zemanek
Abertay University
SFAS Environment Art Judging panel
Laura Dilloway, Lead Environment Artist at Airship Interactive
Buster Wappett, Environment Artist at 10:10 Games
Dan McCabe, Senior Vehicle Artist at Cloud Imperium Games
Tom Clayton, Environment Artist at Sumo Digital
“Berenika showed a solid workflow understanding, really clean topology, with work that was beautifully colour balanced. A great balance of technical and traditional skills with a keenness to learn and grow.“
After impressing our assessors in the project stage with her strong grasp of technical and artistic skills, it’s no surprise to find that our industry judges thought similarly during Berenika’s final interview and were won over by her strong understanding and approach to environment art.
See Berenika’s portfolio here: https://www.artstation.com/facelessmochi
Rising Star 2024
Environment Art Winner
Jacob Foster
Rising Star Environment Art Judging panel
Jack Walker, Creative Director IMPRNT Studios
Max Spurlock, Founding Technical Artist, Mythica
Lloyd James, Vehicle Artist at Cloud Imperium Games
Lauren Sears, Wushu Studios
“Jacob is ambitious with good artistic and technical considerations, making him a strong environment artist. He had a strong narrative, took feedback really well and overall the project was well thought through and focused.“
After a strong project submission that showed a multitude of skills, Jacob reached the finals and impressed the judges with his well-rounded skillset and huge potential for environment art.
See Jacob’s portfolio here: https://www.artstation.com/ovidiuariciuc
