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What makes Game Art at Worcester special?

Our Game Art course mixes high level creativity with cutting edge technology and supports you to find your passion within a broad-ranging subject. Our approach is based on authentic experience with strong industry links, giving you the opportunity to tackle live briefs, collaborative practice, and master industry standard software. You will graduate with the skills needed to pursue careers as character artists, environment artists, concept artists, and technical artists, among many other possibilities.

Our dedicated games studio hosts our teaching sessions and also allows you to come and work independently when it suits you, creating a vibrant, creative space for you to learn and enjoy being part of a community. The course is equipped with the latest industry-standard software and high-spec dual screen PCs, as well as Wacom Cintiq graphics tablets and VR Kit.

You will be supported by our award-winning teaching team to discover your specialism and take part in internationally recognised competitions such as The Rookies, graduating with a professional portfolio ready to take that next step into the industry.

Overview

Overview

Key features

  • Exclusive Game Art Studio equipped with dual-screen high spec gaming PCs featuring industry standard software such as Substance, Zbrush, Marvellous Designer, Marmoset Toolbag, Maya, Motionbuilder and Unity and Unreal Engines, as well as Wacom Cintiq graphics tablets
  • From concept art to 3d character or environmental asset creation, you will be supported to find your own passion and path in a fast-moving and cutting-edge discipline
  • Strong industry links throughout the UK including a lively programme of guest lectures and mentors from renowned game studios for events such as our Game Jams, as well as our award winning teaching team who are all practising or industry experienced game artists
  • Diverse future career possibilities, including AAA studios, mobile and web game development, indie gaming, pre-visualisation and VR/AR production, as proven by our growing list of alumni
  • UKIE Student Membership gives our students access to industry professionals through dedicated conferences, events and Games Careers Week, supported by Grads in Games
  • Showcase your talent with our Arts Degree Show at The Art House. This prestigious private view giving you the chance to share your work with industry professionals
  • Be part of a community, through our authentic game studio and our online discord server that connects students and alumni, supporting personal and professional development throughout the course and beyond after
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Entry requirements

Entry requirements

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UCAS tariff points

Entry requirements

104 UCAS Tariff points (for example, BCC at A Level). The normal minimum entry requirement for undergraduate degree courses is the possession of 4 GCSEs (Grade C/4 or above) and a minimum of 2 A Levels (or equivalent Level 3 qualifications). 

Evidence of prior study in an art and design discipline – or equivalent experience in the case of mature applicants – will be required on application.

Applicants are invited to provide an online portfolio for consideration alongside their application form which helps us to assess your application and, in some circumstances, allows us to make a reduced offer.

Other information

T Levels may be used to meet the entry tariff requirements for this course. Find out more about T levels as UCAS tariff points here.

Further information about the UCAS Tariff can be obtained from the UCAS website.

If you have any questions about entry requirements, please contact the Admissions Office on 01905 855111 or email admissions@worc.ac.uk for advice.

Student work and facilities

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Christian Amendola

Christian Amendola

Game Art graduate, Christian Amendola, is now fulfilling his career ambitions, working as a 3D artist at a mobile games company.

Months after graduating in 2019, Christian managed to secure a job at Neon Play as a Junior 3D Artist. “The opportunity popped up when I spoke with a recruitment agent who mentioned the company and I managed to email them at the right time as they were looking for a Junior 3D Artist,” he said. Now Christian has progressed to 3D Artist.

“I’ve been working at Neon Play for two years and it’s exactly how I’d imagined it, if not better,” he said. “We work on mobile games - games for mobile phones, so I’m part of the Idle Team. We primarily focus on Idle Tycoon Games. So far I feel I’ve reached my career ambitions. I’m working within the industry, I’m with a great company with amazing colleagues.”

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Conor Reilly

Conor Reilly

I got my job as a Junior 3D Artist at Just Add Water a year and a half after graduating. I signed up for a recruitment agency,  and while it felt slow at first, a year later, I received an email mentioning that a company was hiring. I applied, got an interview, did an art test, and then managed to secure a position a short while later. I've been there for a year and a half now and love it. I work from home and I am usually tasked to create 3D models from start to finish and optimise existing models.

Course content

Course content

We regularly review our courses to reflect the latest research and developments in the subject area, as well as feedback from students, employers and the wider sector. As a result, modules may change to ensure the course remains current and relevant.

Optional modules will run if enough students choose to study them. It is not guaranteed that all modules will be offered every year.

The modules for this course are currently being reviewed and updated for 2026 entry. Full details will be available on this page soon.

Year 1

Mandatory

  • Game Art Contexts and Communication
  • Game Art Contexts and Careers
  • 3D Core Skills: Asset Creation
  • 2D Core Skills: Concept Art and Visual Development
  • 3D Game Construction

Optional

  • 2D Game Construction

Year 2

Mandatory

  • Character Art
  • Environment Art
  • Production Design
  • Interactive Experience

Optional

  • Ui Art
  • Character Rigging and Motion Capture

Year 3

Mandatory

  • Previsualisation, Research and Development
  • Game Art Individual Portfolio Project (Dissertation Equivalent)
  • Professional Practice
  • Group Game Development Project
  • Supplementary Skills for Game Artists

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Study Game Art as part of a joint honours degree

As well as a single honours degree, Game Art is also available as joint honours combinations, allowing you to combine it with another subject to match your interests and career aspirations:

Animation and Game Art BA (Hons)

Teaching and assessment

Teaching and assessment

The University places emphasis on enabling students to develop the independent learning capabilities that will equip you for lifelong learning and future employment, as well as academic achievement. 

A mixture of independent study, teaching, and academic support through the personal academic tutoring system enables you to reflect on progress and build up a profile of skills, achievements, and experiences that will enable you to flourish and be successful.

Teaching

Game Art is primarily a practical subject with most sessions delivered in our dedicated Game Art Studio.

You are taught through a combination of interactive workshops and lectures, tutorials and group-based tasks, to become a highly creative thinker in the exciting, fast-moving game development industry. Our taught sessions take a variety of formats and are intended to enable the application of learning through discussion and small group activities as well as technical instruction, inclusive for all learners.

Weekly classes are usually a mixture of lecture, discussion and guided workshop tasks which allow students to develop their skills with tutor feedback and peer support. The majority of these take place in our dedicated Game Art studio.

In addition, meetings with personal academic tutors are scheduled on at least 4 occasions in the first year and three occasions in each of the other years of a course.

You have an opportunity to work on live briefs and connect with game studios through our industry mentors who support a variety of events throughout the course.

You will use games industry-standard software and have access to dual-screen computer facilities throughout the course, supported by a team of knowledgeable technicians in both our studio and The Art House.

Contact time

In a typical week, you will have around 12 contact hours of teaching.  The precise contact hours will depend on the optional modules selected and in the final year you will normally have slightly less contact time in order to do more independent study in your chosen specialism.

Typical class contact time will be structured around lectures, workshops, practical projects, seminars, tutorials, critiques, group work and discussion, and guest speakers.

Independent self-study

In addition to the contact time, you are expected to undertake around 24 hours of personal self-study per week. For example, each module will give you around 3 hours of contact time and you will be expected to carry out a further 6 - 7 hours of independent study related to that module. With four modules of study per semester, this equates to a 40 hour working week which emulates professional working practice.

Independent learning is supported by a range of excellent learning facilities, including the Hive and library resources, the virtual learning environment, and extensive electronic learning resources including video tutorial database LinkedIn Learning, as well as bespoke video resources created by academic tutors.

Assessment

The course provides opportunities to test understanding and learning informally through the completion of practice or ‘formative’ assignments. Each module has one or more formal or ‘summative’ assessments which are graded and count towards the overall module grade.  

Assessment methods include a range of coursework assessments such as digital portfolios, digital artefacts, essays, reports, presentations and a final year independent project.

The precise assessment requirements for an individual student in an academic year will vary according to the mandatory and optional modules taken, but a typical formal summative assessment pattern for the course would include:

  • Visual and written research
  • Learning journal or online portfolio site
  • Finished artwork and digital assets
  • Presentations
  • Learning Reports
  • Essays

Please note that modules within the Creative Arts often have more than one assessment item, which may be presented as part of one collective portfolio. For example, an assessment for a 15-credit module could ask for a portfolio in response to a Brief, which would include a practical project with a finished artefact such as digital models, as well as demonstrable research and a written report that reflects on the practical work.

Feedback

You will receive feedback on practice assessments and on formal assessments undertaken by coursework. Feedback is intended to support learning and you are encouraged to discuss it with personal academic tutors and module tutors as appropriate.

We aim to provide you with feedback on formal course work assessments within 20 working days of hand-in.

Programme specification

If you would like to see a full programme specification for this course, please email AcademicQualityTeam@worc.ac.uk

Final Year Art Shows

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Trips, events and visiting speakers

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Meet the team

Here are a few of the current members of the department who you may meet when you study this course. Visit the Schools of the Arts 'Meet our Experts' page for the full list of department staff.

Jacqui Edwards

Jacqui Edwards

Prior to beginning her teaching practice at the University of Worcester, Jacqui enjoyed over a decade working as a character animator for the games industry.

Her work within game development encompassed a wide variety of genres and platforms, from AAA titles with big name franchises to casual games for indie developers. Expertise in character animation was developed through this practice in both keyframe and motion capture.

Jacqui's commercial work also included many years as a freelance animator, and she has a strong belief in bringing the ethos of creative enterprise and practical experience into her teaching.

Jacqui's research interests include female representation in games, and she is a Women in Games Ambassador.

Jacqui is also the Quality Coordinator for the School of Arts.

Owen Simons

Owen Simons

Owen Simons is a Lead 3D artist and animation director with over 20 years industry experience. He has contributed to a diverse range of projects including computer games, animated TV series, adverts and educational videos. For 10 years he worked as CG Lead for Sun and Moon Studios, a prominent animation and games production company based in Bristol. He was responsible for overseeing all of the studios CG output and managed teams of artists in the creation of numerous game and animation projects. Recently he directed an ident for E4; designed and directed EyeGaze games for the gaming charity Special Effect; and lead a team of artists in the creation of a vast amount of 3d characters and props for the Games Workshop animated series “Hammer and Bolter”.

Owen developed his love for teaching whilst working at the University of Worcester as an associate lecturer, and now splits his time between a part time position as Technical Director for Sun and Moon Studios and as permanent member of the University’s Game Art teaching team. His modules focus on the development of technical and artistic skills in 3D asset creation, utilising his commercial experience and knowledge of industry standard workflows and techniques.

 

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Zara Sharma

Zara runs Dusty Tusk Studio, alongside her work at the University of Worcester. She develops indie games as well as providing contracted work for clients. Her generalist art role covers a wide range of game art items like 3D prop modelling, low-poly characters, 2D concept designs and engine shaders, which helps during her role as a lecturer. Founding and running a business has taught Zara many lessons, she’s happy to share tips and strategies with students that wish to pursue careers as indie game developers.

Careers

Careers

Game Art offers good graduate prospects for working within the games industry or related areas.  

This includes:

  • 3D Character Art
  • Environmental Art
  • Concept Art
  • Technical Art
  • UI/UX design
  • Level Design
  • VFX
  • Animation

The games industry was worth £7.63billion to the UK economy in 2024 and the UK employs a far greater number of people working directly in the video games industry than other countries in Europe. (source: UKIE, 2025). The West Midlands is a region with a high number of employees in the game industry in the UK. The University is therefore ideally placed for work placement opportunities for Game Art students and graduates.

Our collaborative and authentic approach ensures our graduates are skilled artists and effective communicators, with an awareness of ethical practice and cultural and contemporary debates in game development. As well as boosting your employability, this course provides an ideal base from which to go on to postgraduate study.

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Careers and Employability

Our Graduates pursue exciting and diverse careers in a wide variety of employment sectors.

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Costs

Fees and funding

Full-time tuition fees

UK and EU students

The Government has announced that it will increase tuition fees and maintenance loans by 3.1% from the 2025/26 academic cycle. Subject to approval, the University intends to increase our tuition fees in line with this and as per our terms and conditions. This means that from September 2025 the standard fee for full-time home and EU undergraduate students on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees will be £9,535 per year for new and continuing students. 

For more details on course fees, please visit our course fees page.

International students

The standard tuition fee for full-time international students enrolling on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees in the 2025/26 academic year is £16,700 per year.

For more details on course fees, please visit our course fees page.

Part-time tuition fees

UK and EU students

The Government has announced that it will increase tuition fees and maintenance loans by 3.1% from the 2025/26 academic cycle. Subject to approval, the University intends to increase our tuition fees in line with this and as per our terms and conditions. This means that from September 2025 the tuition fees for part-time UK and EU students on BA/BSc/LLB degrees and FdA/FdSc degrees will be £1,190.83 per 15-credit module, £1,587.77 per 20-credit module, £2,381.66 per 30-credit module, £3,175.55 per 40-credit module, £3,572.50 per 45-credit module and £4,763.32 per 60 credit module for new and continuing students.

For more details on course pages, please visit our course fees page.

Additional costs

Every course has day-to-day costs for basic books, stationery, printing and photocopying. The amounts vary between courses.

If your course offers a placement opportunity, you may need to pay for an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check.

Accommodation

Finding the right accommodation is paramount to your university experience. Our halls of residence are home to friendly student communities, making them great places to live and study.

We have over 1,000 rooms across our range of student halls. With rooms to suit every budget and need, from our 'Traditional Halls' at £136 per week to 'Ensuite Premium Halls' at £236 per week (2026/27 prices).

For full details visit our accommodation page.
How to apply

How to apply

Apply to study part time

Please make your application via our online application forms.

If you have any questions, please contact the Admissions office on 01905 855111 or admissions@worc.ac.uk.

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Apply to study full time through UCAS

UCAS is the central organisation through which applications are processed for entry onto full-time undergraduate courses in Higher Education in the UK.

Read our How to apply pages for more information on applying and to find out what happens to your application.

Single Honours:
Game Art BA (Hons) - I758

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Joint Honours:
Please visit the individual joint honours course pages for UCAS links:
Animation and Game Art BA (Hons) - I680

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Admissions Office

admissions@worc.ac.uk
01905 855111

Jacqui Edwards

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