About this program
Game Artist and Game Artist Specialization
Character or environment art, UI or animation - get the experience you need to work with 3D graphics in the games industry!
Whether it’s character art, environment art, effects, UI or animation that you are most interested in doing for games, this program will get you into the industry with credibility through hands-on development experience in 3D graphics.
Study Game Art in Boden or Skellefteå. Game Art (Specialization) is offerd in Stockholm and Malmö. Please visit our site for more information.
Admission requirements
- Grades or proof of post graduate qualifications from upper secondary school/high school or equivalent
- CV and a personal letter (letting us know why you have chosen the specific program)
- English 6 from upper secondary school/high school or proof of equivalent knowledge
- Work Sample
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Learn moreProgram content
- Intro to Game art
- Game project 1
- Game Art fundamentals
- Concept Art
- Texturing
- Environmental Art
- Game Project 2
- FX for games
- Tech art
- Animation
- Character art
- Lighting and rendering
- Game project 3
- Market analysis, CV and Preparatory
- Sculpting in 3D
- Advanced game art
- 3D graphics thesis
- Internship in 3D Graphics
Scholarships & funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the educations website for more information
Qualification
- Understand and utilize an efficient workflow for game art creation
- Create high and low resolution 3D models
- Create high quality textures
- Create hard surface objects such as vehicles and weapons etc.
- Create characters and other organic models
- Adapt to a wide range of visual styles
- Set up and animate characters and objects
- Understand color theory, form, design and composition
- Understand the business aspect of the games industry
Career paths
- Animator
- Character Artist
- Concept Artist
- Environment Artist
- Tech Artist
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About this institute
Futuregames
With almost 25 years of experience Futuregames has consistently ranked as one of the best game educations in the world and our former students make up over 14% of the Swedish games industry working in game art, game design, programming,...
Why study at Futuregames
Why Sweden?
As most gamers know, Sweden is a global epicenter for games development with a business worth almost EUR 3 billion. You don’t need to take our word for it that Sweden is where game careers take off, just check out the stats from th Swedish Games Industry where amongst other things you’ll discover that every eighth person in the world has played a game made by Swedes!
Why Futuregames?
With almost 25 years of experience Futuregames has consistently ranked as one of the best game educations in the world and our former students make up over 11% of the Swedish games industry working across game art, game design, programming, game marketing and more.
- 90% of our students find a job in the industry within 3 months of graduation
- 11% of the Swedish gaming industry are former Futuregamers
- 25% of the education is an internship at a top games company
So, whether you’re attracted by working in the capital city of Stockholm where 70% of games companies are located or at Futuregames North where innovative games entrepreneurs are developing totally new approaches to game design, we offer a range of exciting opportunities.
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