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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 …
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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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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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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Awesome samples from the third semester Character Design 2 course.
In the Game Art & Design Porgram students are challenged to work in the Unreal game engine. Below are a few concepts that students produced.
On April 3, 2013 the Design Exchange hosted the annual Level Up game student showcase. Students from 12 colleges and universities in the Toronto area showed their games to peers and industry, the event expected over 600 attendees! Graduates from Centennial College’s Game Art & Design program displayed their demo reels and current students attended …
Game Art & Design students proving that the program’s philosophy of “making artists, digital artists” is working. Here at Centennial we don’t try to be a generalist game program, the Game Art & Design program is about creating the assets you see in a console (AAA) game. Check out the amazing work!
The Game Art & Design program at Centennial College aims to create world class graduates. Our first semester has a focus on traditional art fundamentals. These fundamentals are necessary to create the incredible characters and environments found in video games. Here are some examples of work done buy first semester students in the Game Art …
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On a grey damp afternoon (October 18th) Centennial’s Game Art & Design students made their way to the the edge of Lake Ontario to Corus Quay for Digifest’s Warren Spector and Marv Wolfman Disney Epic Mickey 2 keynote talk. The panel discussion lasted for just over an hour, and was informal and engaging with anecdotes …
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