Łódź, Poland

3D Graphics and Game Art
(field of studies: Graphics)

Master's
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3D Graphics and Game Art

⇑3D Graphics and Game Art at PUW

Field of studies: Graphics
Language: EnglishStudies in English
Subject area: arts
Kind of studies: part-time studies
Studies online Studies online
University website: www.puw.pl

⇑Test: Is 3D Graphics and Game Art the right fit for you?

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10 questions · two minutes

1. A lecturer or art director reviews your portfolio and says the work is technically sound but lacks a distinctive style. What do you do?

2. Your character model looks great, but it’s too heavy for the game to run smoothly. How do you tackle it?

3. You join a team making a game with a specific art style, and your assets stand out from the rest. What do you do?

4. You’re working on a project with people from several countries – briefs, feedback and presentations are all in English. How comfortable are you?

5. How well do you know the whole pipeline for a game asset – from concept sketch through modelling and texturing to getting it into the engine?

6. You’re designing the environment for a game level, and playtesters keep getting lost. How do you respond?

7. For your Master’s you need to complete an independent art project. How do you plan it?

8. How important are the classical fundamentals – anatomy, perspective, colour theory – to you?

9. New tools keep appearing – AI-powered ones, 3D scanning and so on. How do you see them?

10. What motivates you most to pursue a Master’s degree in 3D Graphics and Game Art?

⇑Definitions and quotes

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.
Game
A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements. However, the distinction is not clear-cut, and many games are also considered to be work (such as professional players of spectator sports or games) or art (such as jigsaw puzzles or games involving an artistic layout such as Mahjong, solitaire, or some video games).
Graphics
Graphics (from Greek γραφικός graphikos, "belonging to drawing") are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage it includes: a pictorial representation of data, as in computer-aided design and manufacture, in typesetting and the graphic arts, and in educational and recreational software. Images that are generated by a computer are called computer graphics.
Game
Games lubricate the body and the mind.
Benjamin Franklin, as quoted in Edge-Tools of Speech (1899) by Maturin Murray Ballou, p. 177.
Art
Scientific pictures are often not just about science. They may... have an undeniable aesthetic quality. They may even have been primarily works of art that possess a scientific message.
John D. Barrow, Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science (2008)
Art
I remember some artists who said this world isn't worth anything, that it is a pigsty, that we are going nowhere, that God is dead, and all those things. Bad literature is this. To expose your navel, to tell how you drank your morning coffee amid general disgust, with everything around you rotting. While the world is dying, I drink my coffee. Or I perform my little sex acts. This is old-fashioned. One must cross this neurotic curtain.
Alejandro Jodorowsky Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)
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