Program Overview

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Games Art BA (Hons)

Overview

Are you creative and love computer games? Want to combine your art skills with cutting-edge creative technology? Study computer games art and bring your passions to life.

Course Details

Full-time and Part-time

W212 BA/GA

Computer Games

Course routes:

• Degree: 3 years (or 4 with a work placement)
• Plus foundation year: 4 years (or 5 with a work placement)

Course Overview

Foundation year

Work placement

Top reasons to study computer games art at Teesside

• Industry links: take part in Animex, our annual international animation and games festival featuring experts from Rockstar, Pixar, Disney and Sony.
• Real-world experience: enter GameJam events, take part in industry competitions and Beta test upcoming games before they are released.
• Career-ready: our ExpoSeries of events allow you to showcase your skills to industry professionals who are seeking to recruit new and rising talent.
• Industry recognition: our course is recognised by ScreenSkills, the industry-led skills body for the UK's screen-based industries, and carries the ScreenSkills Select quality-mark which indicates courses best suited to prepare students for a career in the screen industries.
• Quality teaching: 92.4% of computer games and animation students agreed that staff often made the subject engaging (National Student Survey 2024, tees.ac.uk/source).

Course Structure

Year 1 core modules

• Asset Creation for Games
• Environment Production for Games
• Games Art Fundamentals
• Sculpting for Games

Year 2 core modules

• Character Production
• Games Technical Art
• Hard Surface Modelling
• Journeyman

Optional work placement year

• Work placement

Final-year core modules

• Beta Arcade
• Games Project
• Photogrammetry for Games

How you learn

• Lectures and tutorials
• Practical projects
• Teamworking skills
• Simulated game studio experience

How you are assessed

• Portfolio of games art
• Practical projects
• Final-year project

Entry Requirements

• 96-112 points plus a portfolio if your Level 3 qualifications do not include a creative subject such as art, design, drawing, animation or games art/design.
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• Recognition of prior learning (RPL)

Employability

• Career opportunities
• Graduate destinations
• Industry links

Information for international applicants

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Other course routes

• Foundation year
• Work placement

Full-time

• Entry to academic year
• Fee for UK applicants: £9,535 a year
• Fee for international applicants: £17,000 a year
• Length: 3 years (4 with work placement)
• UCAS code: W212 BA/GA
• Start date: September
• Semester dates

Part-time

• Entry
• Fee for UK applicants: £4,635 (120 credits)
• Length: Up to 6 years
• Attendance: 1-3 days
• Start date: September
• Semester dates

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• Ellen Dudley
• BA (Hons) Computer Games Art

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• Computer Games showreel

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• Animex 2023
• Women in Games
• Aya Al-Bayati, BA (Hons) Computer Games Art

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• Emmy success for Teesside University graduate
• Indie games studios to attend prestigious conference
• Leading games studio helping students gain industry experience

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Also of Interest

• 3D Games Art MA
• Games Art (with Foundation Year) BA (Hons)
• Introduction to Games Art (Online)