- The University of Hertfordshire offers a MA in Games Art and Design with a duration of 1 year.
- The program is a course-based and delivered on-campus.
- The program is available on a full-time (1 year) and part-time (2 years) basis.
- Ranked 1st in the UK as Top Games Development School (10th worldwide) and 1st for Games Design & Development Production Excellence (Rookies World School Rankings 2020).
- The MA Games Art and Design degree allow students to develop their Games Art and Design skills and knowledge to a professional level.
- Students will produce a commercial-standard personal portfolio that reflects the forefront of current practices in approach, style, and vision.
- The current game art and design practitioner is likely to become a specialist in one area, such as character modeling, environment creation, lighting, animating, etc.
- Some of the modules students will study are:
- Creative Economies
- Major Study: Games Art and Design
- Research and Enquiry
- Practice 1: Media
- Practice 2: Media
- Media Discourses
- This award fuses technical knowledge of real-time rendering with the aesthetic decisions and traditional skills students will need as a games artist.
- Graduates work for most major games' companies including BAFTA-winning UK games studio Creative Assembly, Frontier, Splash Damage, Guerrilla Games, Mediatonic Games, and Rare.
- The student-faculty ratio is 4:5.
- According to payscale, the average salary goes up to 58,000 USD.