Games Art and Design

Location: This Teesside University award is delivered at our London Here East campus, part of Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Start dates: Apply now for September 2025, November 2025 or January 2026 - visit www.tees.ac.uk/london/studentlife for details.

Course overview: Are you a creative that loves computer games? Study this degree course and combine your artistic skills with cutting-edge creative technology to bring your passion to life. As a computer game artist, you create a game's characters, assets, environments, creatures and vehicles, as well as producing concept art and storyboards.

Top reasons to study games art and design

1. Industry links: take part in Animex, our annual international animation and games festival featuring experts from Rockstar, Pixar, Disney and Sony.
2. Real-world experience: enter GameJam events, take part in industry competitions and Beta test upcoming games before they’re released.
3. Career-ready: our ExpoSeries allows you to showcase your skills to industry professionals who are looking to recruit new and rising talent.
4. Start-up business support: we support you to develop your own business in games through our Power UP Indie Games Accelerator

You develop your practical skills and explore specialised areas including 3D character sculpting, photo-real texturing and surfaces, hard surface modelling, shaders, material, lighting and effects, game engine implementation, concept art, environment art and character art.

After the course: Graduates have gone on to work as artists, level designers, 3D modellers and texture artists at a range of games companies including 3rd Dimensions, Atomic Planet, Bizarre Creations, Creative Assembly, Electronic Arts, Eutechnyx, Halch, Media Molecule, Microsoft Rare, Naughty Dog, Ninja Theory, Rebellion, Rockstar North and Rockstar San Diego, Sega, Sony, Streamline, Supermassive Games, Traveller's Tales, Ubisoft, Venom, Weta Digital and so many more.