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Search For A Star & d3t Rising Star 2021 : The Winners

April 5, 2021April 26, 2021 0
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Search For A Star & d3t Rising Star 2021 : The Winners

April 5, 2021April 26, 2021 Dan Dudley 0

Starting with 1200 registered students, this year’s Search for A Star & d3t Rising Star game development challenges have once again been the largest we’ve ever seen!

Each challenge tasks students with completing a game project to an industry brief, either in games programming, environment art, character art, animation or VFX. Projects are reviewed by our team of industry assessors, with the highest scoring being selected as finalists.

These finalists faced an interview panel of industry professionals from leading studios, speaking to them about their game development skills as well as their career aspirations.

With the results revealed last week during our announcement livestream, we’re very happy to confirm all of this year’s category winners across both Search For A Star & d3t Rising Star.

We’ll be talking in more detail over the next few weeks about all of our winners, their work and what our judges had to say during their interviews!

Games Animation Winner

Sankalp Sharma
Staffordshire University


Games VFX Winner

Sam Mayson
University of Hertfordshire


Character Art Winners

Tristan McGuire
Solent University

Gia Han Lam
Howest DAE


Environment Art

Chris Rhodes
University of Huddersfield

Martin Pech
University of South Wales


Games Programming

Francisco Nicolau
University of Lisbon

Kian Bennett
University of Portsmouth


Congratulations to everyone who took part in this year’s challenges!

We’ll be talking in more detail over the next few weeks about all of our winners, their work and what our judges had to say during their interviews!

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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