University of Hertfordshire, BA & MA Games Art

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Hello Everyone

I thought it would be nice to show you some of our students' creations from the University of Hertfordshire.

We have a BA & MA Games Art course, here is our showreel and website - The University of Hertfordshire Showreel & Website


You can also view lots of our real time rendered animations here - Games Art - uhanimation.co.uk Games Art ? uhanimation.co.uk

If you have any questions then PM me, Neil Gallagher, Programme Leader, BA & MA 3D Animation and Games Art, this is me - LINK

And here are some images









http://3dhit.co.uk/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&at tach_rel_module=post&attach_id=26544












And this is where the course is based, 10 million pound Film, Music and Media building.


And this is where we party - 48Million pound building with a three story night club



Partying is not your thing, no problem 24hour, 363 days per year one of the learning resources centers


Or would you rather get in shape - Hertfordshire Sports Village
American Football, Badminton, Basketball, Canoe, Cheerleading, Climbing, Cricket, Dance - Various, Equestrian, Fencing, Football, (Mens) Football, (Womens) Futsal, Golf, Hockey, Karate-do Shotokai, Kick Boxing, Lacrosse, Netball, Rowing, British RowingRugby, Squash, Swimming, Tennis, Trampolining, Triathlon.



And here are the course details.
3D Games Art BA Hons - University of Hertfordshire

If you would like to talk to our students in person then you can post here on our student forum. 3DHIT | UHAnimaton Community

And here are the course details.
BA Games Art
BA VFX
BA 2D
BA 3D

Also MA Animation (MA, PgD) Masters
MA 3D
MA Games Art

Social sites are run by alumni for the students with some tutor input:

You Tube- uhanimation's Channel - YouTube

Vimeo - UHAnimation - Hertfordshire Uni on Vimeo

Twitter - Twitter

Facebook - UHAnimation | Facebook

The Games Art course has a strong emphasis on the study of software tools and teaches all the cutting edge software you need to get into the industry: Maya, 3DSMax, Zbrush, Mudbox, Photoshop and many more and uses both the Unreal engine and the Crysis engine to enable students to gain access to all the professional tools needed in the industry.

The course explores digital modelling of characters and environments, and helps students to develop animation as well as shader techniques and level creation. You will be taught to create optimised geometry and textures and apply them to game engines, gaining an understanding of the technological restrictions of realtime 3D graphics. Also high to low resolution surface transfer modelling is taught as well as producing high resolution models for promotional material.

The main emphasis of the course is on the student becoming a “Games Artist” so a full day of study during the duration of the course has been allocated to life drawing and clay modelling to help develop a rounded portfolio as well as having live visits from Scott Eaton and Jeni Fairey from Madame Tussauds. So even if you start from a more technical back ground you will be taught the fundamentals of art, composition, colour theory and much more which are essential to gaining employment in the Games Industry.

The first year is like a foundation course where you have a taster of all the BA digital animation courses which are 3D, VFX, 2D and Games Art before choosing your specialization.

We have many open days during the year so feel free to come and look around our state of the art University that teaches twenty seven thousand students per year, has a £40 million night club and dining area, swimming pool, climbing wall, gym and over a thousand societies waiting for you to join - so if you like canoeing, walking, going to the cinema or playing the didgeridoo, there is always a club for you.

The University of Hertfordshire is 20 minutes by train from London’s “Kings Cross Station” and three stops on the underground to the Buzzing Soho industry where Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has its headquarters. By car it’s just off the A1 and 20 minutes drive from the M25 Google Maps

Quotes from the Industry about the University of Hertfordshire Courses.

Jolyon Webb | Art Manager | Blitz Games Studios
“We found the University of Hertfordshire students well-informed and focused; we were impressed with what we saw.”
Blitz Games - Family Games division of Blitz Games Studios Ltd.

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.”
Frontier Developments

Ian Yarwood-Lovett | Lionhead | Franchise 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.”
Lionhead Studios' official website, most famous for the Fable series...

Louise Ridgeway | Head of Animation | Rare Ltd | Microsoft Games Studio
‘What a pleasure it has been visiting the University of Hertfordshire for film day again this year. They again proved that they are one of the top uni’s for the industry at the moment, with another outstanding show of effort and commitment by a great bunch of enthusiastic students. A diamond in the rough.’
Rare - Kinect Sports: Season Two Creators

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"
Official PlayStation website: Country Selector

Hans Bacher, Art Director For Disney
“Great student films, and a great showreel! you have some very talented students”.
Walt Disney Animation Studios

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"
DREAMWORKS ANIMATION

Aidan Gibbons, Senior Visual Effects artist, The Mill London "The University of Hertfordshire’s 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."
The Mill Homepage - The Mill

Below is a list of companies our alumni are working at and the list is growing all the time.

Games:-
Activision (Shanghai)
Activision (UK)
Apache Solutions Ltd
Babel Media
Beatnik Games
Blitz Games
Creative Assembly
Crytek UK
Digi-Guys
Electronic Arts
Eurocom
Eutechnyx Ltd
FreestyleGames
Frontier
Frozenbyte
Geomerics
Gusto Games
Headstrong Games
Hothouse Creations
Idle Creations
Ignition London
Jagex
Juice Games
Keen Games
Kuju
nDreams
Nintendo
Outso
Poly Assets United Inc
Psychotron
Rare-Microsoft Games
Real Time Worlds
Rebellion Games
Related Designs
Reloaded Productions
Sony-London Studio
Sony-Cambridge Studio
Splash Damage
Supermassive Games
Traveller's Tales
Ubisoft (Singapore)
Zoe Mode

3D, 2D & VFX :-
Activ8
AixSponza
Animated Storyboards
Atticus Finch
Axis Animation
BlinkInk
Blue Zoo
Boutiq
Caboom
Cinesite
Click 3X
CoolToons
Cult Toons
Digi-Guys
Disney Production
Double Negative
FireStep
Fluid Pictures
Framestore
Glassworks
Happy Finish
Hi-ReS
Huge Media
ImpossibleTV
Infinite Frameworks
Jellyfish Pictures
Jim Henson's Creature Shop
Keyframe Studios
Mainframe
Method Studios
Moving Picture Company
Munky
The Mill
National Space Centre
The Neighbourhood
Neon
Nexus Productions
Nvisage
One Dead Pixel
Passion Pictures
Picasso Pictures
Picture House TV
Pipedreams 3D
Pixomondo
Plowman Craven
The Pond
Prime Focus
PTE media
Qvisten Studios
Realtime UK
Redvision
ReelGood
Rewind FX
Saddington & Baynes
Selex SI
The Sex Pixels
Sherbert
Smoke and Mirrors
Spider Eye
StitchthatTV
Storm Studios
Studio AKA
Studio Liddell
Th1ng
Uber
Windmill Lane VFX
Zoo Films

Arch Vis
ArcMedia
AVR London
Crystal CG
Build
PreConstruct
Real Visual
Rock Hunter
Smoothe
Uniform
V-Real

Other
Bentley Motors
Burrows CGI
The Creative Partnership
Douglas Fisher
HMX Media
Random 42
Sparkle Media
Taylor James

Thank you for reading and if you have any further questions please feel free to PM me or post below.

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This made the me happy today, a write up in this months 3dWorld. Pitching us side by side with the best courses public and private in the world! Must admit I am a huge fan of Supinfocom's work.

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Come to our animation festival, celebration and exhibition, 30th May, book now
University Of Hertfordshire Digital Animation Exposé 2012 |... - Eventbrite

University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, 22 minutes train from Kings Cross International

09:30 - Coffee reception & registration
10:00 - The Mill - Commercials
10:50 - Double Negative - John Carter Visual Effects
11:30 - Break
11:50 - Frontier Games - Next Gen gaming
12:30 - MPC - Dark Shadows Visual Effects
13:00 - Lunch
14:30 - Panel - Open Q&A Session with the industry
15:30 - Animation Short Film Showcase
16:30 - Break
17:00 - Awards Presentation

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A short real time games trailer made with the UDK engine. Level 2 Project, they should be great students next year

https://vimeo.com/45336955

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A short real time games trailer made with the CryEngine 3, they should be great students next year

https://vimeo.com/45431783

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Nile Hylton - UH Alumni Student

Showreel - https://vimeo.com/50341748#at=0



Senior VFX Technical Director
[ CHUNKIFIED // NILE HYLTON ]

Crowd TD @ Framestore
We are Framestore. Extraordinary images, extraordinary talent. | Framestore

Founder and Lead Developer of TD-Toolkit
TD Toolkit - Launching early 2012

Nice Alumni Showreel with final shots from Wrath Of The Titans, Sherlock Holmes 2 and John Carter

Wrath Of The Titans - Pyroclastic smoke and fire simulation using Flowline.
Shot 1 - Fire explosion
Shot 2, 3, 4 & 5 - Trailing pyroclastic cloud which creature interacts with
Shot 6 - Trailing pyroclastic cloud
Shot 7 - Swirling cloud coming out of volcano
Shot 8 - Pyroclastic smoke trails

John Carter and Sherlock Holmes 2 - Crowd simulation using MPC's ALICE

Siemens, Flying Fish - Developed a custom directable flocking solution in Maya using Python @ Smoke And Mirrors London

MTV 10 for 11 - Python based procedural rigging and animation system for Maya and pipeline tools

Welsh Rugby Union - Custom hair/shard system development in for Maya in Python, pipeline tools, particles, debris, dynamics.

Huggies - Procedural rollercoaster building developed in Houdini and pipeline tools developed for Houdini and Maya in Python.

More details and work available @ chunkified.com.

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Thomas Lishman, Level 4 Student, The Penguin



And Mr Grumbel

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Here is our new real time showreel (apart from the helicopter shots) for our BA Games Art course, most of the work is from 2011-12.

https://vimeo.com/53611822

Here is our 3D modelling showreel

https://vimeo.com/53612325

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Hello

We just thought we would load up a high resolution image from 3D World mentioning that the University of Hertfordshire is one of the best places to learn Animation in the world. It was a very nice surprise for us to be pitched next to such great schools.

Best Wishes,
The Animation Team

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New showreel for 2012

https://vimeo.com/55198000#at=0