Games Art - BA (Hons)

University of Westminster, London

The Games Art BA will provide you with the creative skills and technical knowledge needed to design visual assets in game environments you’ll design the characters, objects and backgrounds that make games come to life. This course will prepare you to become a confident games artist who can create visuals and user experience design applicable across a wide range of industries and emerging technologies. You’ll seek new approaches and audiences that have a global reach, consider the representation of characters in games and reflect on equality, diversity and inclusion in games. The course will explore established and emerging industries that use games for entertainment and for social enhancement (e.g. educational games).To reflect the professional game development workplace, where skilled professionals from different disciplines work together, the Games Art BA has embedded collaboration with students on other courses such as Graphic Design BA, Illustration BA, Animation BA, and most importantly our sister course the Computer Games Development BSc. Through this inter-disciplinary collaboration, you’ll gain valuable experience of hands-on working with colleagues in different fields on the games pipeline.

School of Media and Communication