. 2017 has been the biggest year yet for Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star. The second year running our art competition has seen 219 talented artists submitting work for our first round of the competition! . Our amazing round two industry judges have donated their valuable time and marked all our […]
Today we’re happy to announce our Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star Code finalists! This year was the biggest yet, with 405 programmers completing our first round C++ Hacker Rank test. Our fantastic round two judges have spent their time playing some amazing games and delving deep into our students’ code to […]
Our 2017 Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star competition was our biggest yet and saw us expand our animation category and introduce a new VFX competition! Our VFX students were asked to create a projectile ending in an aura – the details of how this would look were completely up to the […]
Our 2017 Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star competition was our biggest yet, seeing a record number of students creating impressive characters and stunning environmental scenes from their chosen piece of concept art. You can view a sample of our student’s artwork below! Search For A Star Character Art Agneta Miskiv […]
Just today, a number of our Search For A Star & Rising Star winners, Sam Bang, Rachel Cabot and Anthea van Leeuwen were given an honourable mention in the 2017 Develop 30 Under 30 list. To have your hard work recognised alongside many other young, dedicated individuals who’re all making a big impact in the […]
With so many submissions for round two of Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star now in, it’s time to take a look at our illustrious panel of round two judges. These guys and girls know the industry like the back of their hand and know from first hand experience how to break […]
The deadline for students to get their work submitted for Search For A Star & Sumo Digital Rising Star is fast approaching! Students have until tomorrow, (Thursday, 2.3.17) before our industry judges begin marking work. Following the marking process, students who are selected to move onto the third stage of Search For A Star & Rising […]
Introducing our new Grads In Games partner Gamer Camp who are sponsoring our Search For A Star competition. Created and staffed by industry veterans, Gamer Camp is a unique finishing school for game developers (including coders, artists, designers and producers), designed to give graduates the skills and experience the games industry demands. Endorsed by the the […]
Grads In Games is thrilled to partner with PlayStation First for our Search For A Star competition. PlayStation First is Sony Interactive Entertainment’s (SIE) Global Academic Program, designed to inspire and encourage the new wave of developers to create games across all PlayStation platforms. Universities signed up to PlayStation First can access PlayStation […]
Round 1 for the Search For A Star completions is now open, and information on the first stage is on its way out to all those who have pre-registered!