Sankofa - BA FMP treatment update from the top of this thread, really looking forward to this game. Character work by >Stevie Cole< graduates in May 2016.
BA level 6 student, Phoebe Warries graduates at the end of May 2016
I am a big fan of her work and I am looking forward to this animation which she is working so hard to complete for the UH Digital Exposé on the 25th May.
Nice work showcased here are there any open days coming up? Also, is it possible to do a custom pathway, e.g. training for one year full time in something like traditional figure sculpture and drawing, or game art with a focus on characters?
Hi Touch, we can offer you an MA on a range of courses such as MA Games Art, Model, Fine Art, Animation and many more courses at Post Graduate level, I hope that helps. Also you can do it part time over two years.
In more news BA Games Art student Sam Bang won overall the Search for a Star Character category and also won the title of the overall Search for a Star 2016 winner for art. And BA level 6 student Amelie Talarmain won Search for a Star Animation at the University of Hertfordshire won best animator.
They are available for work from the end of May 2016
Testimonials from fantastic people about the course.
Aidan Gibbons, CG Lead & Mill+ Director, The Mill London
"The University of Hertfordshires Visual Effects work really impressed us on the live projects we ran with them; we feel that their students are the ones to watch at graduation time."
Ian Yarwood-Lovett | Art Director | Microsoft Games Studio
“Visiting the UHanimation course was a real eye opener for me; the quality of work produced coupled with the enthusiasm of the students makes this course one we’ll be watching very closely in the future.”
“UH is one of the few Universities teaching the correct fundamental skills required by the games industry, you have the right mix of traditional theory and cutting edge digital art creation, and understand that the tech is a tool rather than the end in itself. I’m impressed.”
Louise Ridgeway | Head of Animation | Rare Ltd | Microsoft Games Studio
“They are one of the top universities for the industry at the moment, with another outstanding show of effort and commitment by a great bunch of enthusiastic students and staff.”
Paul Gaboury 3D Product Development Manager Pixologic Inc
"The student work coming out of University of Hertfordshire is studio ready. Just watch the showreel and you'll see how talented the students are at this school. I always enjoy seeing what the students at the University are creating with ZBrush and are always blown away by the top notch quality."
"The animation students I met at Hertfordshire were both talented and articulate with some very good work - and I'm looking forward very much to seeing the completed final projects this year"
Tara Saunders | Studio Art Manager | Sony Computer Entertainment | London Studio'
"The University of Hertfordshire has provided our studio with some talented graduates in recent years. It's definitely one of the courses to watch for upcoming talent"
One to lookout for in the future, half way through his second year and as been chosen by Microsoft Games Studios to do a years paid internship. I do like it when they come back after working for a year, they are on fire!
I really like this students style, he graduates end of May 2016. Name - Kevin Ua-wanapaksa Website - http://thinkbevin.com/ Email - thinkbevin3D@gmail.com
Feel free to come along and join in the celebration/exhibition of all the students hard work for 2016. If you can not make it there will be a live link for the days events - http://livestream.com/uhanimation
We are in our thirteenth year and is shaping up to be our best yet. In the past years the digital animation degree has won or been nominated in more than 40 digital animation competitions worldwide, come and see the newest batch of talented digital animation artists. As always it will be held at the stunning 450 seater Weston Auditorium.
09:30 – Coffee reception & registration 10:00 – Double Negative (Spectre, james Bond, Joel Green, CG Supervisor) 10:50 – Splash Damage (Ben Cottage and Yin Lau) 11:30 – Break 11:50 – 2D Animaiton – Dino Demosthenous 12:30 – Blue Zoo Adam Shaw – CEO 13:00 – Lunch 14:15 – Industry Round table Employment 15:00 – Animation Short Film Showcase 16:00 – Break 16:20 – Award Presentation with Industry Guest Panels 17:15 – Event close. Industry, Alumni & Invited Guests move to Private Exhibition to see all student work and talk to students FMM
One of our lecturer staff is being interviewed tonight. Artist interview Session 09: Frank Victoria - Concept artist from Weta Workshop. Hobbit's Trilogy. Join us LIVE on May the 4th!!! 12:00 pm Pacific time at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfSZsbDM-iA It will be AWESOME!!!
Lunette is a short film by BA final year student Phoebe Warries. The short is about a lone wolf’s very special relationship with the moon—and the important impact it has across the natural world. It’s a quiet work the filmmaker describes as “fantasy-based,” with animal animation that’s lovely and simple without being too cute.
You inhabit a large hourglass, each end of which contains a town. Whilst in either town you should locate and solve puzzles in order to collect crystals. Be sure to make haste, as the town will be rapidly filling with sand, quickly making areas unavailable. Once all the sand has fallen the hourglass will turn, giving you the same amount of time to solve puzzles in the opposite town. All crystals must be returned to the large central crystals in the same town in which you collected them.
I'm currently studying at plymouth college of art on a games design degree and am in my second year. In short -the course is appalling and a waste of time. So i have recently been looking into other courses in the uk that i could transfer to for my last year (or to retake the 2nd year aswell).
This course sounds exaclty what i've been looking for and what i was hoping my currenty course would be like.
I have a few questions and i'd be very grateful if you could answer them
- Would students from other degrees be able to transfer to the course into the 2nd or 3rd years?
- What would the talent / portfolio need to be at, to be accepted for a transfer?
- Would you say that the course is suitable for a 2D looking to get into the games / film industry or is there more of a focus on 3D?
- Also in the original post there are links to 2D / 3D parts of the courses, implying that the course splits up into the different disciplines at some stage, however those links no longer work. Would it be possible to explain a bit more about the course structure (sorry if this has already been explained)
Thank you very much
Hi could you please send me the answers to this as well? I don't need to know about transfer credits though. I have a bachelor degree already.
Question - Would students from other degrees be able to transfer to the course into the 2nd or 3rd years?
Answer - If you email Martin Bowman (course Deputy Manager) <m.p.bowman@herts.ac.uk> with your transfer questions and portfolio link he can advise you on your best course of action.
Question - What would the talent / portfolio need to be at, to be accepted for a transfer?
Answer - Again best to talk to Martin Bowman, its really hard to transfer into level 2 or 3 as the way we have set up the course at level 1 is like a foundation course where you get to try 2D and 3D Animation, VFX and Games Art, and its mixed with lots of pro talks and drop in art classes before you focus on what you enjoy most. So your portfolio would need to cover a lot of ground.
Question - Would you say that the course is suitable for a 2D looking to get into the games / film industry or is there more of a focus on 3D?
Answer - I have started teaching 2D students how to make games as many of the 2D students end up working in the games industry but if your 100% focused on getting into games then the BA/MA games Art course would be the best fit.
Question - Also in the original post there are links to 2D / 3D parts of the courses, implying that the course splits up into the different disciplines at some stage, however those links no longer work. Would it be possible to explain a bit more about the course structure (sorry if this has already been explained)
Answer - Most of the course teaching has there main industry focuses but it has some electives which the students can chose so they can try rigging, scripting, rendering and so on. The way we have set up the course is to allow all the students to mingle like an "Eton Mess". For example your working on a game and you need an animator so you pull in a freelance from the 3D Animation course, or your working on a VFX short but you need a monster so you pull in a Zbrush games artist and so on, while the students could try and make a project 100% on their own we find it best to allow the students focus on what they enjoy doing the most and pull in freelance students to get the most out of them, they even pull in the music students. All our students can focus on their final major project or freelance across two or three.
I hope that helps, fell free to come to an open day so we can explain it more detail.
The project was produced by two final year students as there final major project, Audrey and Arif Audrey Wong Email - whchin2012@hotmail.com Website - https://audreee.artstation.com/
As part of the degree project we get the students to make a "Pre Production Portfolio", it essentially lays out the project and explains how it will be achieved in the time frame, I thought you might like to see it - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3VqhGtBQamXakpxTmtxNWdoVDA/view
It won the Games Art category at this years Digital Expose 2016, and they got a bag full of swag thank's to the guys from Frontier Games.
And here are some break down shots.
Here is Frank and I proudly showing their project at the Digital Expose. The hardest bit about being a lecturer is saying good bye to the graduates but then we get some new recruits in the new year only to train them up better and stronger then ever before! - Onward and Upwards!
The Rookies finalists have been posted. So happy to see lots of UH games students in the mix. Fingers crossed for July 11th when the final awards go out.
Feels good doesn't it, its all down to your happy face and chocolate brownies Lee Onwards and upwards, we got some fantastic MA students this year don't you know!
Two more awards for the MA Animation final major project "The Idea Thief"
at the Go West Film Festival, Oakhurst, California best Animation and best
Music Score.
Replies
These guys graduate at the end of May 2016
Arif Pribadi - http://arifcreations.com/ arifcreations.comAudrey Wong - http://audreee.artstation.com/ audreee.artstation.com
Some work Sam Bang who I am sure you will see more of this year!
Marmoset render -
Rally Bug Turbo (Still in Alpha)
Arif - http://arifcreations.com/blog/ ;
Audreee - https://www.artstation.com/artist/audreee
Project Networks
- http://polycount.com/discussion/164322/one-small-step-unreal-4-cinematic
- https://www.facebook.com/OneSmallStepUE4/?__mref=message_bubble
- http://www.onesmallstepfilm.tumblr.com/
The Team
Adam Nield - Lead TD + Lighting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA9OAqSIZzw
Character work by >Stevie Cole< graduates in May 2016.
I am a big fan of her work and I am looking forward to this animation which she is working so hard to complete for the UH Digital Exposé on the 25th May.
In more news BA Games Art student Sam Bang won overall the Search for a Star Character category and also won the title of the overall Search for a Star 2016 winner for art. And BA level 6 student Amelie Talarmain won Search for a Star Animation at the University of Hertfordshire won best animator.
Click here to see more about him - Philip Dunckley
Click here to see more about him - Zak Boxall
Testimonials from fantastic people about the course.
Aidan Gibbons, CG Lead & Mill+ Director, The Mill London
"The University of Hertfordshires Visual Effects work really impressed us on the live projects we ran with them; we feel that their students are the ones to watch at graduation time."
http://www.themill.com/
Hans Bacher, Art Director | Disney
“Great student films, and a great showreel! you have some very talented students”.
http://www.disneyanimation.com/
Ian Yarwood-Lovett | Art Director | Microsoft Games Studio
“Visiting the UHanimation course was a real eye opener for me; the quality of work produced coupled with the enthusiasm of the students makes this course one we’ll be watching very closely in the future.”
http://www.forzamotorsport.net/en-us/turn10
John Laws | Head of Art | Frontier
“UH is one of the few Universities teaching the correct fundamental skills required by the games industry, you have the right mix of traditional theory and cutting edge digital art creation, and understand that the tech is a tool rather than the end in itself. I’m impressed.”
http://www.frontier.co.uk/
Jolyon Webb | Senior Art Director | Natural Motion
“We found the University of Hertfordshire students well-informed and focused; we were impressed with what we saw.”
http://www.naturalmotion.com/
Louise Ridgeway | Head of Animation | Rare Ltd | Microsoft Games Studio
“They are one of the top universities for the industry at the moment, with another outstanding show of effort and commitment by a great bunch of enthusiastic students and staff.”
http://www.rare.net/
Paul Gaboury 3D Product Development Manager Pixologic Inc
"The student work coming out of University of Hertfordshire is studio ready. Just watch the showreel and you'll see how talented the students are at this school. I always enjoy seeing what the students at the University are creating with ZBrush and are always blown away by the top notch quality."
http://pixologic.com/
Shelley Page, Dreamworks.
"The animation students I met at Hertfordshire were both talented and articulate with some very good work - and I'm looking forward very much to seeing the completed final projects this year"
http://www.dreamworksanimation.com/
Tara Saunders | Studio Art Manager | Sony Computer Entertainment | London Studio'
"The University of Hertfordshire has provided our studio with some talented graduates in recent years. It's definitely one of the courses to watch for upcoming talent"
http://www.scee.presscentre.com/
Sebastian Vomvas - http://www.therookies.co/next-gen-gaming/rookie-of-the-year-gaming/sebastian-vomvas/
Name - Kevin Ua-wanapaksa
Website - http://thinkbevin.com/
Email - thinkbevin3D@gmail.com
More information - http://www.therookies.co/virtual-reality/game-of-the-year-02/vietnam-vr-experience/
This is Beta, they have until the middle of May to add more polish.
He has come on a bit since page 4 on this thread that's for sure
Chaos Circuit - Playable Game, Final year project
The GameThis is the End Boss fight
UHAnimation Exposé May 25th 2016
Feel free to come along and join in the celebration/exhibition of all the students hard work for 2016. If you can not make it there will be a live link for the days events - http://livestream.com/uhanimationWe are in our thirteenth year and is shaping up to be our best yet. In the past years the digital animation degree has won or been nominated in more than 40 digital animation competitions worldwide, come and see the newest batch of talented digital animation artists. As always it will be held at the stunning 450 seater Weston Auditorium.
09:30 – Coffee reception & registration
10:00 – Double Negative (Spectre, james Bond, Joel Green, CG Supervisor)
10:50 – Splash Damage (Ben Cottage and Yin Lau)
11:30 – Break
11:50 – 2D Animaiton – Dino Demosthenous
12:30 – Blue Zoo Adam Shaw – CEO
13:00 – Lunch
14:15 – Industry Round table Employment
15:00 – Animation Short Film Showcase
16:00 – Break
16:20 – Award Presentation with Industry Guest Panels
17:15 – Event close. Industry, Alumni & Invited Guests move to Private Exhibition to see all student work and talk to students FMM
How to find us
Weston Auditorium, Hatfield, Hertfordshire,
AL10 9EU
>Click here for a MAP<
And also well done UH Alumni "Pavel Mamichev" Who won 1st place (and a Cintiq) today at "Escape-Tech's Sculpting competition"
And some more lighting WIP shots of final year project "One Small Step"
http://onesmallstepfilm.tumblr.com/
UHAlumni Sol Rogers got his own star at FMX 2016, Honoured alongside many great legends of the industry.
Artist interview Session 09: Frank Victoria -
Concept artist from Weta Workshop.
Hobbit's Trilogy. Join us LIVE on May the 4th!!! 12:00 pm Pacific time at
It will be AWESOME!!!
Website - http://www.yannitripolitis.com/
Real-time Particle guru
Chaos Circuit - http://www.therookies.co/next-gen-gaming/game-of-the-year/chaos-circuit/
and
Rally Bug Turbo - http://www.therookies.co/next-gen-gaming/game-of-the-year/rally-bug-turbo/
Interview with Sam Bang who won both the Character Art category and the overall Search For A Star Art award.
He still has a few weeks to graduate so snap him up if you need a character artist.
Interview - http://gradsingames.com/search-for-a-star/sam-bang-feature/
more details here - http://www.therookies.co/next-gen-gaming/game-of-the-year/nexus/
BA Third Year Student
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWiOXx6w-J0
Audrey Wong
web - https://audreee.artstation.com/
Stef Walker
Chris Turner
BA Second Year Student
Jordan Moss
BA First Year Student
Eddy Idriss
A big congratulations to BA Games Art Alumni Karen Stanley, winner of the Rising Star award at this year's Women In Games Awards!
http://www.mcvuk.com/events/read/mcv-women-in-games-awards-2016/0162222
Name: Keagan Harris
Name: Stevie Cole
The Shattering
Early concept work for the Shattering
White Water, BA Games Art - FMP
Kevin - http://thinkbevin.com/Aaron Coker
Ben Webster
Josiah Ward
You inhabit a large hourglass, each end of which contains a town. Whilst in either town you should locate and solve puzzles in order to collect crystals. Be sure to make haste, as the town will be rapidly filling with sand, quickly making areas unavailable. Once all the sand has fallen the hourglass will turn, giving you the same amount of time to solve puzzles in the opposite town.
All crystals must be returned to the large central crystals in the same town in which you collected them.
Everything except sound was made by us
Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t7jw5soc2ryb76b/Tempus.zip?dl=0
Question - Would students from other degrees be able to transfer to the course into the 2nd or 3rd years?
Answer - If you email Martin Bowman (course Deputy Manager) <m.p.bowman@herts.ac.uk> with your transfer questions and portfolio link he can advise you on your best course of action.
Question - What would the talent / portfolio need to be at, to be accepted for a transfer?
Answer - Again best to talk to Martin Bowman, its really hard to transfer into level 2 or 3 as the way we have set up the course at level 1 is like a foundation course where you get to try 2D and 3D Animation, VFX and Games Art, and its mixed with lots of pro talks and drop in art classes before you focus on what you enjoy most. So your portfolio would need to cover a lot of ground.
Question - Would you say that the course is suitable for a 2D looking to get into the games / film industry or is there more of a focus on 3D?
Answer - I have started teaching 2D students how to make games as many of the 2D students end up working in the games industry but if your 100% focused on getting into games then the BA/MA games Art course would be the best fit.
Question - Also in the original post there are links to 2D / 3D parts of the courses, implying that the course splits up into the different disciplines at some stage, however those links no longer work. Would it be possible to explain a bit more about the course structure (sorry if this has already been explained)
Answer - Most of the course teaching has there main industry focuses but it has some electives which the students can chose so they can try rigging, scripting, rendering and so on. The way we have set up the course is to allow all the students to mingle like an "Eton Mess". For example your working on a game and you need an animator so you pull in a freelance from the 3D Animation course, or your working on a VFX short but you need a monster so you pull in a Zbrush games artist and so on, while the students could try and make a project 100% on their own we find it best to allow the students focus on what they enjoy doing the most and pull in freelance students to get the most out of them, they even pull in the music students. All our students can focus on their final major project or freelance across two or three.
I hope that helps, fell free to come to an open day so we can explain it more detail.
Here is a really rough break down.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tc1ueso6ielx6df/AACNuNezUTiG6PufmzZTEEOFa?dl=0
This is a nice review of - (WARRIOR'S PILGRIMAGE) - http://www.opnoobs.com/reviews/indie/item/581-warrior-s-pilgrimage-some-may-call-this-art-me-i-call-it-mind-blowing
The project was produced by two final year students as there final major project, Audrey and Arif
Audrey Wong
Email - whchin2012@hotmail.com
Website - https://audreee.artstation.com/
Arif Pribadi
Email - arif@arifcreations.com
Website - http://arifcreations.com/
As part of the degree project we get the students to make a "Pre Production Portfolio", it essentially lays out the project and explains how it will be achieved in the time frame, I thought you might like to see it - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3VqhGtBQamXakpxTmtxNWdoVDA/view
And here is the finished product that you can download - https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0B3VqhGtBQamXUlMzUXpfRUNnbHM&export=download
It lives, on show at the exhibition!
And here is a article in 80 Level
http://80.lv/articles/arif-pribadi-on-building-massive-worlds-with-ue4/
It won the Games Art category at this years Digital Expose 2016, and they got a bag full of swag thank's to the guys from Frontier Games.
And here are some break down shots.
Here is Frank and I proudly showing their project at the Digital Expose. The hardest bit about being a lecturer is saying good bye to the graduates but then we get some new recruits in the new year only to train them up better and stronger then ever before! - Onward and Upwards!
Very happy for Arif and Audrey for being showcased Unreal Twitch Community Spotlight.
Skip to 6.20
And being on the UE4 spot light, great stuff!
Other Awards by UH students
Matthew Allen, Director at Rewind
Solomon Rogers, CEO of Rewind
And two more
Chloe Price, Marketing Assistant at Rewind
Jake Cooper, 3D Artist at Rewind
Alumni Danny Blank & Yanni Tripolitis were part of the team picking up an award for the Unreal 4 engine.
It was a good fun night and great seeing so many people I used to work with.
P.S. It was great to see Hideo Kojima receive the Development Legend prize at the Develop Industry Excellence Awards.
Very proud to have been even a small part in helping these guys make Herts the school of the year for next gen gaming
I noticed they're dishing out these cool badges on their Facebook page, more to come - https://www.facebook.com/TheRookiesCO/
Two more awards for the MA Animation final major project "The Idea Thief" at the Go West Film Festival, Oakhurst, California best Animation and best Music Score.
https://www.facebook.com/ideathiefshortfilm/