This year saw student presenting their games for Beta and Alpha release at Ubisoft an Zynga games. They received feedback from professional game developers through two evenings of play-testing at Ubisoft and Zynga’s Toronto offices.
2017 Student games
Students from Centennial’s Game Art & Design program, in collaboration with students from University of Toronto’s Department of Computer Science and Faculty of Music, created these games. The games were wholly conceived and created by the students. UofT students provided the programming chops as well as music, Centennial students provided the art assets as well …
Mobile games
Students in 4th semester of the Game Art & Design program collaborated with University of Toronto programming students to create 3D games for mobile. Four teams created a diverse set of mobile games using Unity and Maya/3DsMax. The original games were conceived and executed in a very short development period within a single semester. Many …
Sorry, There Is No “Idea Guy” Position In The Game Industry
Sometimes others can say it better…
“Whenever I meet a new group of game production students at The Los Angeles Film School, I ask them what role they want to have in the game industry. Every so often, I get one who says, “I’m really good at ideas. That’s what I want to do in the game industry: be the guy who comes up with the ideas for games, stories and characters.”
Build worlds for a living: Careers in Game Art and Design
At Centennial College’s Story Arts Centre, creativity and commerce intersect as artistic students are taught how to make media, and how to succeed in the industry that makes that media. One such program is Game Art and Design, taught at the Story Arts Centre. Game Art Students receive intensive hands-on training in current software and modelling methodologies in …
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From play to work: Turning video games into a career at Centennial College
We’re living among a generation where many of us were raised with game controllers in our hands and want a career making these things that entertained us. Gamers have come a long way from the days when video game testing was thought of as the ideal career, though. Now, if you want to work on …
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3D production process
I think this info-graphic sums it up nicely!
1st semester Game Art & Design :: Fall 2014
The Game Art & Design program starts right away with the skills you will need to be a video game artist. From the first week you will work in traditional media, as well as begin the process of mastering software such as ZBrush, 3DsMax, Photoshop and others. Below are some samples from the Fall 2014 semester. …
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Game Art & Design: Character Design 2
Awesome samples from the third semester Character Design 2 course.
Game Art & Design: Tunnel concepts
In the Game Art & Design Porgram students are challenged to work in the Unreal game engine. Below are a few concepts that students produced.