Cambridge, United Kingdom

Computer Games Art

Bachelor's
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: computer science
Qualification: BA
Kind of studies: full-time studies
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
The course has been designed in consultation with key figures from the games industry to provide you with a dynamic environment in which to develop art skills relevant to rapidly-moving sector. There is an emphasis on visual research, creative experimentation and technical development which will give you a solid platform to make an impact in games creation. Computer games development is characterised by a cross-disciplinary approach and you will be actively encouraged to work in close collaboration with other students on the course and with programmers, audio technicians and musicians. We have a strong track-record of industry involvement - companies such as Ninja Theory, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, Jagex and Frontier - which has benefited students in giving industry guidance on current practice for artists working in computer games. Computer Games Art students have had recent success securing work with games companies during and immediately after their study on the course.
University website: www.anglia.ac.uk
Art
Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artifacts (artworks), expressing the author's imaginative or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power. In their most general form these activities include the production of works of art, the criticism of art, the study of the history of art, and the aesthetic dissemination of art.
Computer
A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically via computer programming. Modern computers have the ability to follow generalized sets of operations, called programs. These programs enable computers to perform an extremely wide range of tasks.
Art
Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.
Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari (Pantheon 1958).
Art
Art hath an enemy called Ignorance.
Ben Jonson, Every Man out of His Humour (1598), Act I, scene 1.
Art
I am willing to let it rest on the determination of every reader, whether the pleasure which he has received from these effects of calm and luminous distance be not the most singular and memorable of which he has been conscious... It is not then by nobler form, it is not by positiveness of hue, it is not by intensity of light... that this strange distant space possesses its attractive power. But there is one thing that it has, or suggests, which no other object of sight suggests in equal degree, and that is—Infinity. ...No work of any art, in which this expression of infinity is possible, can be perfect or supremely elevated, without it.
John Ruskin, Modern Painters (1860) Vol. 2, Ch. V
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