How to design worlds and characters for video games
The Game Art Course at ETIC_Algarve is a technical and creative training programme that prepares professionals for the video games industry, designed for those who want to create the visual elements of a game. If you’re looking for a game design course offering technical and practical training, here you’ll learn how to develop characters, objects and environments that bring visual worlds to life in video games.
We bring industry experience into the course, with lecturers who are currently working in the field, to ensure that the training is up-to-date, rigorous and aligned with the real-world challenges of the video game design industry.
On the Game Art Course, you will learn:
- Design of original characters and creatures for video games
- Creating environments and settings for different types of games
- Drawing techniques, digital painting and applied illustration to game art
- Fundamentals of design for the visual construction of game worlds and narratives
- Aesthetic, cultural and technical knowledge for video game design
In this digital art course, you’ll do more than just learn techniques; you’ll apply these skills to visual projects focused on video games, exploring different styles and creative approaches.
At the end of this Technical Course in Game Art, you will have the opportunity to take part in an ERASMUS+ European mobility project, gaining valuable international experience through an internship.
ETIC_Algarve also offers an optional 320-hour extracurricular work placement through the JUMP programme – Support for Professional Integration – to help students enter the job market with confidence.
Requirements
- Portfolio Presentation
Support for Trainees
Concern for the well-being of trainees is a constant, which is why ETIC_Algarve has been providing its community with various services that contribute to their personal and human growth.
Whether through support for entering the job market, personal development, or financial support granted through the recent Training Grant, we offer trainees a variety of ways to facilitate and promote their growth.
Training Grant
JUMP Internships
Personal development
1 Year
320 hours
Classes from September to July
Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 7pm to 10pm/11pm
Number of Trainees
Maximum 16
And after the course?
Erasmus+
With the completion of this training you will have the possibility to participate in our ERASMUS+ European mobility project.
Career oppurtunities
- Artists for the Videogames industries
Contents
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Drawing
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- The bases of drawing: anatomy, perspective and composition
- Basic forms of the human body and some animals
- Perspective and landscape for the construction of environment scenarios
- Drawing in view
- Perspective and distortions
- Vanishing points
- Planes/angles and framing
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Digital Art
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- Work in digital environment, formats, systems and resolutions
- Adobe Photoshop
- Drawing techniques in a digital environment
- Selections, layers, brushes, fillers and effects
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Digital Painting Techniques
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- Foundations of Painting
- Composition
- Light and Shadow
- Color Theory
- Techniques, processes and methodologies
- Materials and textures
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Conceptual Art I
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- Conceptual art from the industry
- Organization processes from Methodology
- Thumbnailing
- Characters, History, World and Concept
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Project I
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- The Project, Client and Briefing
Research, Thumbnailing, Outline and Concept
- The Project, Client and Briefing
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3D
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- Blender
- 2D texture maps in 3D models
- UV’s maps
- Illumination
- Cameras
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Portfolio, Pitching and Entrepreneurship
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- Creation and development of an individual portfolio
- Communication and oral strategies
- Strategies and tools for business creation
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Final Project
Trainers
Resources and Equipment
- Room equipped with one computer per trainee, with macOS or Windows environment
- Huion Kamvas and Wacom drawing tablets
- Softwares: Adobe Creative Cloud: Photoshop, Illustrator, Blender, among others.
Portfolio
Values
Monthly Fee:
9 x 357,33€
+120€ Registration fee
12 x 268,00€
+180€ Registration fee
Special discounts (non-acumulative):
-7,5%
save 241,20€
- Payment due by 31/05
-5%
save 160,80€
- 9 or 12 monthly instalments; registration until 31/05
- Payment due by 31/07
-2,5%
save 80,40€
- 9 or 12 monthly instalments; registration until 31/07
- Payment due by 30/09
-10%
save 321,60€
- former trainees
- Immediate payment
-7,5%
save 241,20€
- former trainees
- 9 or 12 monthly instalments
Other Conditions
Non-residents:
Enrolment + 1st instalment: 30% of the course fee
Payable upon registration + 9 monthly instalments
Registration Process
- Schedule a personal interview, please contact info@eticalgarve.com or call 289 823 359 / 960 309 550.
- Completion of application form (sent by e-mail after appointment of interview)
- Attend the interview previously scheduled with the Pedagogical Director, in which you must present Portfolio, if you have
Registration takes place between March and September, until classes begin, and as long as there are places on the courses.They may be made after the admission conditions have been verified and upon payment of registration and presentation of:
- Curriculum / Biography
- 1 passport-type photograph, in digital format
- Certificate of qualifications
- Applicant’s documents (ID card / Citizen Card + Taxpayer Card + Proof of address: electricity, water or telephone bill, or driving licence)
- Completion and signing of the registration form and the training contract.
Are you interested?
Make a non-binding pre-registration.