UDK at the University of Hertfordshire BA & MA Games Art course,

[neil]

The University of Hertfordshire has a BA & MA Games Art course, there are many more BA courses in the area, 3D, VFX, 2D, Illustration, Fine Art, SFX and many more.
Here are the Games Art course details - Come and join the fun - http://www.herts.ac.uk/courses/3D-Games-Art.cfm

Here is our showreel.
Click here to see The University of Hertfordshire showreel
https://vimeo.com/36073319

To kick this new thread off here is a little UDK project with lots of DirX 11. There are many more to come and I will post them when I get time to over the summer.
https://vimeo.com/45431322



The Games Art course has a strong emphasis on the study of software tools and teaches all the cutting edge software you need to get into the industry: Maya, 3DSMax, Zbrush, Mudbox, Photoshop and many more and uses both the Unreal engine and the Crysis engine to enable students to gain access to all the professional tools needed in the industry.

The course explores digital modelling of characters and environments, and helps students to develop animation as well as shader techniques and level creation. You will be taught to create optimised geometry and textures and apply them to game engines, gaining an understanding of the technological restrictions of realtime 3D graphics. Also high to low resolution surface transfer modelling is taught as well as producing high resolution models for promotional material.

The main emphasis of the course is on the student becoming a “Games Artist” so a full day of study during the duration of the course has been allocated to life drawing and clay modelling to help develop a rounded portfolio as well as having live visits from Scott Eaton and Jeni Fairey from Madame Tussauds. So even if you start from a more technical back ground you will be taught the fundamentals of art, composition, colour theory and much more which are essential to gaining employment in the Games Industry.

The first year is like a foundation course where you have a taster of all the BA digital animation courses which are 3D, VFX, 2D and Games Art before choosing your specialization.

We have many open days during the year so feel free to come and look around our state of the art University that teaches twenty seven thousand students per year, has a £40 million night club and dining area, swimming pool, climbing wall, gym and over a thousand societies waiting for you to join - so if you like canoeing, walking, going to the cinema or playing the didgeridoo, there is always a club for you.

The University of Hertfordshire is 20 minutes by train from London’s “Kings Cross Station” and three stops on the underground to the Buzzing Soho industry where Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has its headquarters. By car it’s just off the A1 and 20 minutes drive from the M25 http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

If you wish to see more information then you can go here - http://uhanimation.co.uk/

Any questions then PM me, Neil Gallagher, Programme Leader, BA & MA 3D Animation and Games Art

If you would like to talk to our students in person then you can post here on our student forum. www.3dhit.co.uk

And here are the course details.
BA Games Art
BA VFX
BA 2D
BA 3D

Also MA Animation (MA, PgD) Masters
MA 3D
MA Games Art

Social sites are run by UH Alimni with some tutor input:

You Tube- http://www.youtube.com/user/uhanimation

Vimeo - http://www.vimeo.com/uhanimation

Twitter - http://twitter.com/#!/uhanimation

Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/uhanimation

Quotes from the Industry about the University of Hertfordshire Courses.

Jolyon Webb | Art Manager | Blitz Games Studios
“We found the University of Hertfordshire students well-informed and focused; we were impressed with what we saw.”
http://www.blitzgames.com/

John Laws | Head of Art | Frontier
“UH is one of the few Universities teaching the correct fundamental skills required by the games industry – you have the right mix of traditional theory and cutting edge digital art creation, and understand that the tech is a tool rather than the end in itself. I’m impressed.”
http://www.frontier.co.uk/

Ian Yarwood-Lovett | Lionhead | Franchise Art Director | Microsoft Games Studio
“Visiting the UHanimation course was a real eye opener for me; the quality of work produced coupled with the enthusiasm of the students makes this course one we’ll be watching very closely in the future.”
http://www.lionhead.com/

Louise Ridgeway | Head of Animation | Rare Ltd | Microsoft Games Studio
‘What a pleasure it has been visiting the University of Hertfordshire for film day again this year. They again proved that they are one of the top uni’s for the industry at the moment, with another outstanding show of effort and commitment by a great bunch of enthusiastic students. A diamond in the rough.’
http://www.rare.net/

Tara Saunders | Studio Art Manager | Sony Computer Entertainment | London Studio'
"The University of Hertfordshire has provided our studio with some talented graduates in recent years. It's definitely one of the courses to watch for upcoming talent"
http://www.scee.presscentre.com/

Hans Bacher, Art Director For Disney
“Great student films, and a great showreel! you have some very talented students”.
http://www.disneyanimation.com/

Shelley Page, Dreamworks.
"The animation students I met at Hertfordshire were both talented and articulate with some very good work - and I'm looking forward very much to seeing the completed final projects this year"
http://www.dreamworksanimation.com/

Aidan Gibbons, Senior Visual Effects artist, The Mill London "The University of Hertfordshire’s Visual Effects work really impressed us on the live projects we ran with them; we feel that their students are the ones to watch at graduation time."
http://www.themill.com/


Below is a list of companies our alumni are working at and the list is growing all the time.


Games:-
Activision (Shanghai)
Activision (UK)
Apache Solutions Ltd
Babel Media
Beatnik Games
Blitz Games
Creative Assembly
Crytek UK
Digi-Guys
Electronic Arts
Eurocom
Eutechnyx Ltd
FreestyleGames
Frontier
Frozenbyte
Geomerics
Gusto Games
Headstrong Games
Hothouse Creations
Idle Creations
Ignition London
Jagex
Juice Games
Keen Games
Kuju
nDreams
Nintendo
Outso
Poly Assets United Inc
Psychotron
Rare-Microsoft Games
Real Time Worlds
Rebellion Games
Related Designs
Reloaded Productions
Sony-London Studio
Sony-Cambridge Studio
Splash Damage
Supermassive Games
Traveller's Tales
Ubisoft (Singapore)
Zoe Mode

3D, 2D & VFX :-
Activ8
AixSponza
Animated Storyboards
Atticus Finch
Axis Animation
BlinkInk
Blue Zoo
Boutiq
Caboom
Cinesite
Click 3X
CoolToons
Cult Toons
Digi-Guys
Disney Production
Double Negative
FireStep
Fluid Pictures
Framestore
Glassworks
Happy Finish
Hi-ReS
Huge Media
ImpossibleTV
Infinite Frameworks
Jellyfish Pictures
Jim Henson's Creature Shop
Keyframe Studios
Mainframe
Method Studios
Moving Picture Company
Munky
The Mill
National Space Centre
The Neighbourhood
Neon
Nexus Productions
Nvisage
One Dead Pixel
Passion Pictures
Picasso Pictures
Picture House TV
Pipedreams 3D
Pixomondo
Plowman Craven
The Pond
Prime Focus
PTE media
Qvisten Studios
Realtime UK
Redvision
ReelGood
Rewind FX
Saddington & Baynes
Selex SI
The Sex Pixels
Sherbert
Smoke and Mirrors
Spider Eye
StitchthatTV
Storm Studios
Studio AKA
Studio Liddell
Th1ng
Uber
Windmill Lane VFX
Zoo Films

Arch Vis
ArcMedia
AVR London
Crystal CG
Build
PreConstruct
Real Visual
Rock Hunter
Smoothe
Uniform
V-Real

Other
Bentley Motors
Burrows CGI
The Creative Partnership
Douglas Fisher
HMX Media
Random 42
Sparkle Media
Taylor James

Thank you for reading and if you have any further questions please feel free to PM me or post below.

[neil]

A short real time game trailer made in the Steam Punk Genre.

[neil]

Some nice bits of art work for you.

[neil]

More stuff made in UDK to come, after this last art dump

[neil]

And Here is a little UDK project with lots of DirX 11.
https://vimeo.com/24614845

[k21n]

Fantastic work, really inspiring for me!

[neil]

Thank you "k21n" are you coming to join us this year? we have a few students from Romania

[k21n]

I don't know... i can't afford, would love to..

[neil]

Shame, maybe next year?

[neil]

Nile Hylton - UH Alumni Student

Showreel





Senior VFX Technical Director
www.chunkified.com

Crowd TD @ Framestore
framestore.com

Founder and Lead Developer of TD-Toolkit
www.td-toolkit.com

Nice Alumni Showreel with final shots from Wrath Of The Titans, Sherlock Holmes 2 and John Carter

Wrath Of The Titans - Pyroclastic smoke and fire simulation using Flowline.
Shot 1 - Fire explosion
Shot 2, 3, 4 & 5 - Trailing pyroclastic cloud which creature interacts with
Shot 6 - Trailing pyroclastic cloud
Shot 7 - Swirling cloud coming out of volcano
Shot 8 - Pyroclastic smoke trails

John Carter and Sherlock Holmes 2 - Crowd simulation using MPC's ALICE

Siemens, Flying Fish - Developed a custom directable flocking solution in Maya using Python @ Smoke And Mirrors London

MTV 10 for 11 - Python based procedural rigging and animation system for Maya and pipeline tools

Welsh Rugby Union - Custom hair/shard system development in for Maya in Python, pipeline tools, particles, debris, dynamics.

Huggies - Procedural rollercoaster building developed in Houdini and pipeline tools developed for Houdini and Maya in Python.

More details and work available @ chunkified.com.

[neil]

Thomas Lishman, Level 4 Student, The Penguin



And Mr Grumbel

[neil]

[neil]

Still looking, Senior Lecturer in Games Design, University of Hertfordshire
School of Creative Arts
£35,938 to £45,486 per annum

Job role details - https://www.jobs.herts.ac.uk/pls/cor...ay_apply_ind=Y

A link to our Epicgames thread -
http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/...mes-Art-course

Best Wishes,
Neil

[neil]

Some little tests for Adam's big projects


UDK Hologram Material Test - YouTube



UDK_DynamicWeatherMaterialTest_v001 - YouTube



Chinatown_WIP_v001 - YouTube

[CHADALAK1]

That is very impressive!!! sooo much material linking and calculations!! just out of curiousity, does Uni of Hertfordshire cover over Unreal Script as well?? I've been working on perfecting UScript for quite some time now as well as C++ and Lua for CryEngine as well. I live in the US currently doing Video Game Design as well, but would love to further extend my degree to a masters(bachelors at minimum).

[Snufkin]

Wow game courses in the UK are starting to shape up real good aren't they?

[neil]

That is very impressive!!! sooo much material linking and calculations!! just out of curiousity, does Uni of Hertfordshire cover over Unreal Script as well?? I've been working on perfecting UScript for quite some time now as well as C++ and Lua for CryEngine as well. I live in the US currently doing Video Game Design as well, but would love to further extend my degree to a masters(bachelors at minimum).

Hello, we teach Mel, Python but the we need to push more on the Unreal Script and C++, we are about to get a new member of staff for Games Art so there will be two of us and some visiting lecturer allowance so we can start pushing script side of things. One the whole though I would say we are a much more arts based course.

As for further study MA Animation or an MA in Research or a PhD then email i.willcock@herts.ac.uk and we will welcome you with open arms

[neil]

Hello everyone

Here is our 3D modelling showreel

[neil]

Here is our new real time showreel (apart from the helicopter shots) for our BA Games Art course, most of the work is from 2011-12.

[neil]

Hello

We just thought we would load up a high resolution image from 3D World mentioning that the University of Hertfordshire is one of the best places to learn Animation in the world. It was a very nice surprise for us to be pitched next to such great schools.

Best Wishes,
The Animation Team

[neil]

New showreel for 2012

[neil]

NEWS - Frank Victoria joined the UHAnimation team this week
after 12 years at Weta http://www.wetanz.com/frank-victoria/

Lord of the Rings, King Kong, The Hobbit and lots of other cool stuff

[Winwarproductions]

AaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhH! King Kong, my favorite movie of all time. That's really cool. I wish I could have met him. I will take any way to get near Peter Jackson and pick his brain. Frank Victoria is an awesome addition.

[neil]

Arnold Showreel January 2013

We teach this new render for Maya and we have a render engine running on a 200 PC render farm, soon expanding to 800, boom!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=sYPelZW8mMQ

[stevelois]

Absolutely fantastic looking projects !!!

[neil]

Thank you Stevelois
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University Of Hertfordshire Ba(Hons) 2D Animation
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To say that we are proud of this achievement is an understatement. To gain such a high recognition for all of our programmes is down to the hard work and dedication of the Staff, the enthusiasm and quality of our Students, and the support of our amazing Alumni.

Its worth mentioning the the Ba(Hons) Visual Effects was mentioned that if they were accrediting these types of courses yet, it would pass without a doubt and we are working with them to set it up for the future.

[neil]

This is a nice real time UDK SSS shader.

Much the same set up as UDN basically but added tessellation and displacement.

Here is the network:

[neil]

Come to the UHAnimation Exposé 2013 | Festival, Exhibition & Celebration 5/6/13
Talks from Framestore - Iron Man 3 VFX, Crytek - Next Gen Gamining, Arnold Rendering and more

Book here if you would like to come - http://uhanimation.eventbrite.com/