The assessments have been completed and we have our finalists selection for this year’s Search For A Star and Rising Star challenges in Games Animation! Our animation category is designed to help students create a high level portfolio project based on a studio brief and workflow, and then getting industry feedback from our assessment team […]
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 […]
Three excellent webinars this week with our Get In The Game careers events, spanning games art, programming, animation and VFX! This week Andy & Rebecca from the Grads In Games team covered just what it takes for students to get their career started in the games industry, and were joined by guest speakers Louise Andrew, […]
Two more webinars last week with our Get In The Game careers events, both with a huge number of artists and coders joining us & setting a new record for Q&A sessions! This week Andy & Dan from the Grads In Games team covered just what it takes for students to get their career started […]
Only two webinars this week with our Get In The Game careers events but still just as busy. We’ve now run seven in total over the past three weeks, speaking to nearly 2000 students! This week Becky & Andy from the Grads In Games team covered just what it takes for students to get their […]
For our tenth anniversary we’re taking the final stage of Search for a Star and Sumo Digital Rising Star online! We’ll be announcing the winners of SFASX live on Monday 27th April at 6pm (17:00 UTC) in a livestreamed event. As well as the winners, we will highlight this year’s participants, projects and game studio […]
So, you’re at University studying 3D Character or Environment Art, VFX, Animation, Programming, Comp Sci or Game Design, right? You might not be thinking about it just yet, especially not in your first or second year, but you’re going to be hoping to get your first role in the games industry pretty soon aren’t you? You’ll […]
Search for a Star 2018 Meet the Finalists – Animation It has been almost 6 months since this year’s Search for a Star started accepting its 1st Round of submissions back in September last year. Now, with Final’s Day almost upon us, we have whittled things down to a handful of amazing finalists. You have […]
With the second challenge of Search for a Star and Sumo Digital Rising Star now open, and the first challenge still well underway, we’re excited to announce the industry professionals who are providing individually tailored feedback on our art students’ first challenge portfolio submissions. We’ve been blown away by just how many industry professionals have […]
Aardvark Swift are calling for guest speakers to inspire the next generation of developers on this year’s Get in the Game tour.