Our Games Art programme focuses on the visual side of the video game industry, including specialist areas such as concept art, UI, 3D modelling, environment and character design. You will be introduced to the key points in the creative process, from initial concepting through to the production of final assets, as well as the technical skills required to implement these into a working video game.

The Games Art programme has a collaborative group project module with our Games Design and Games Programming courses, so Games Art students can work with programmers and designers to produce commercial quality games.

Whatever your ambitions, we’re here to help you to achieve them. We’ll support you to identify the skills you’re learning during your course, find your strengths and secure practical experience so that when it comes to applying for jobs or further study you’ll feel confident in standing out from the crowd. We’ve created the Northampton Employment Promise because we are so confident that if you focus on your studies and complete one of our awards you’ll be highly employable by the time you graduate. Putting you in a great position to secure employment or continue your studies.

This course will give you all the skills and experience you need to find work in the broad field of games design.

Previous students have gone on to work at:

Playground Games, Firesprite, Codemasters, Jagex, Austella VR, Totem Learning, Dream Harvest Games and Sumo Digital

You may also be able to secure work in areas such as animation, architectural visualisation, visual effects, and model-making for film and TV.