B. Des Game Art & Design
Design immersive game environments, characters, and assets.
About the B. Des Game Art & Design programme
A game art degree built around the production pipeline an actual studio uses: concept, modelling, texturing, rigging, lighting, and integration into a live engine. You work in Blender and Maya and ship into Unreal and Unity, so the work you make is playable rather than only renderable. Final-year students produce a portfolio piece built to the standards a studio art test expects.
Why study B. Des Game Art & Design at TIU
Concept through to in-engine asset, so you understand where your work goes and why it breaks.
Final-year work is built to the specification of a studio art test, not a college submission.
Topology, UVs, LODs and performance budgets are taught properly — the constraints that separate hireable game art from pretty renders.
A cross-disciplinary team project with game development students, run like a small production.
What you study, year by year
Indicative structure. Module sequencing may vary by batch and regulatory guidelines.
Tools and platforms
Who this programme suits
- Students who want to make the art that goes into games
- Anyone aiming at 3D modelling, concept art or environment art roles
- Students willing to build a serious portfolio over four years
Where this degree takes you
B. Des Game Art & Design: common questions
Game Art is the visual side: modelling, texturing, environments, characters. Game Development is the engineering side: gameplay code, systems, engine work. Students from both meet on the team production project.
No. Year one starts with drawing and design fundamentals, and 3D is introduced from scratch.
The portfolio, almost exclusively — which is why the final year is structured around producing one to studio specification.
Unreal Engine is the primary art pipeline, with Unity covered as well.
Admissions for 2026 are open
Talk to the admissions team about eligibility, scholarships, and the application timeline for B. Des Game Art & Design.
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