Uclan's Games Design Alumni
We're really proud to introduce just some of our Game Design Alumni below featuring examples of their work and what they have to say about their study experience with us at Uclan.
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Aaron Foster, Graduate and recent Tutor on the games design course,
currently Artist/Games Designer at Lunar Software has just granted us permission to post this fantastic image from his game, 'Routine' as part of our Alumni feature.
Following graduation, Aaron spent 2 years working as a professional 3D Environment artist
for www.Eurocom.co.uk on projects such as G-Force and Disney Universe.
He moved on from there to pursue his love of game development as a whole and to
develop his own games.
You can see some of Aaron’s past work at
www.razorb-art.com
Lunar Software is an independent games company based in the UK that currently consists of 3 people, Aaron Foster, Artist, Jemma Hughes and Programmer, Pete Dissler.
We're all waiting with great excitement to see the release of 'Routine' which promises to be quite an 'experience' with it's Retro-Scifi Horror theme.
So delighted to have the Lunar Software poster here amongst out Hall of Game Fame :)
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Peter Field graduated from our Games course with a first class honours in Games Design 5 years ago. He's now a games designer at Naughty Dog in California which is one of the very top games studios in the world!
He's worked on some fantastic titles including Uncharted 3 and recently 'The Last of Us' which is featured in the image attached that we now have permission to use in an alumni banner!
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The White Paper Games team was initially formed by UCLan graduates on the BA and MA Games Design course and the BA Music Practise course.
White Paper Games is a small game development studio based in Manchester, UK. They're currently a team of 7 working on their first release as a studio.'Ether One' is a first person puzzle game for PC and Mac.
Pete Bottomley, Co-founder / Games Designer 1st Class BA Hons Games Design, Masters with Distinction MA Games Design.
Ben Hill, Co-founder / Games Designer 2.1 BA Hons Animation, Masters with Distinction MA Games Design.
Oliver Farrell, Environment Artist 1st Class BA Hons Games Design, Masters with Distinction MA Games Design.
James Burton, Technical Artist 1st Class BA Hons Games Design, Masters with Distinction MA Games Design.
Nathaniel-Jorden Apostol, Sound Design / Composition 2.1 BA Hons Music Practice
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Max Davenport
is a recent graduate, currently working as a contract Concept Artist
at Rare Ltd. - Microsoft Game Studios.
During his study at Uclan, Max had a work placement at Rare, which was a brilliant experience for him, which culminated in his current role with them.
You can see Max's artwork at the following link:
http://maxdavenportart.blogspot.co.uk/
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Alumni, Moh Mukhtar creates 2D art for a Facebook game,'Village Life' which he designed and executed for Playdemic in Wilmslow.
Moh's is a versatile concept artist and his website can be found at the following link: http://mohzart.carbonmade.com/
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Aaron Foster, Graduate and recent Tutor on the games design course,
currently Artist/Games Designer at Lunar Software has just granted us permission to post this fantastic image from his game, 'Routine' as part of our Alumni feature.
Following graduation, Aaron spent 2 years working as a professional 3D Environment artist
for www.Eurocom.co.uk on projects such as G-Force and Disney Universe.
He moved on from there to pursue his love of game development as a whole and to
develop his own games.
You can see some of Aaron’s past work at
www.razorb-art.com
Lunar Software is an independent games company based in the UK that currently consists of 3 people, Aaron Foster, Artist, Jemma Hughes and Programmer, Pete Dissler.
We're all waiting with great excitement to see the release of 'Routine' which promises to be quite an 'experience' with it's Retro-Scifi Horror theme.
So delighted to have the Lunar Software poster here amongst out Hall of Game Fame :)
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Peter Field graduated from our Games course with a first class honours in Games Design 5 years ago. He's now a games designer at Naughty Dog in California which is one of the very top games studios in the world!
He's worked on some fantastic titles including Uncharted 3 and recently 'The Last of Us' which is featured in the image attached that we now have permission to use in an alumni banner!
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The White Paper Games team was initially formed by UCLan graduates on the BA and MA Games Design course and the BA Music Practise course.
White Paper Games is a small game development studio based in Manchester, UK. They're currently a team of 7 working on their first release as a studio.'Ether One' is a first person puzzle game for PC and Mac.
Pete Bottomley, Co-founder / Games Designer 1st Class BA Hons Games Design, Masters with Distinction MA Games Design.
Ben Hill, Co-founder / Games Designer 2.1 BA Hons Animation, Masters with Distinction MA Games Design.
Oliver Farrell, Environment Artist 1st Class BA Hons Games Design, Masters with Distinction MA Games Design.
James Burton, Technical Artist 1st Class BA Hons Games Design, Masters with Distinction MA Games Design.
Nathaniel-Jorden Apostol, Sound Design / Composition 2.1 BA Hons Music Practice
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Christian is German. He grew up in Dortmund until the age of 12, then moved to England where he studied Games design on the BA course at Uclan.
Following graduation he worked as a concept artist for Travellers Tales Ltd.
and then moved to in Shanghai to work for Gameloft.
Christian is very versatile and can produce a variety of artwork from 2D, 3D down to Sprite animation.
Following graduation he worked as a concept artist for Travellers Tales Ltd.
and then moved to in Shanghai to work for Gameloft.
Christian is very versatile and can produce a variety of artwork from 2D, 3D down to Sprite animation.
See his online portfolio here.
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Max Davenport
is a recent graduate, currently working as a contract Concept Artist
at Rare Ltd. - Microsoft Game Studios.
During his study at Uclan, Max had a work placement at Rare, which was a brilliant experience for him, which culminated in his current role with them.
You can see Max's artwork at the following link:
http://maxdavenportart.blogspot.co.uk/
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Paul Bannon is a 3D artist at TT-Fusion, Warner Bros. in Cheshire, where he recently
worked on LEGO City Undercover
worked on LEGO City Undercover
You can see Paul's website at the following link:
http://www.xaku-designs.com/
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Alumni, Moh Mukhtar creates 2D art for a Facebook game,'Village Life' which he designed and executed for Playdemic in Wilmslow.
Moh's is a versatile concept artist and his website can be found at the following link:
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Andy Kerr graduated from Uclan Games design course and initially worked as a Junior Artist at 'Travellers Tales Fusion' in Wilmslow, Cheshire UK. Following this he began work as a 3D artist at 'Gaia Technologies' developing assets fro ground breaking educational systems. Andy has been with Gaia in Bangor, North Wales, for several years now.
You can see some of his spectacular work here.
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Katie Clague completed her Games Design degree at Uclan and went on to work at
Travellers Tales Ltd. as a Junior Level Construction Artist on their range of Lego game titles.
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Alumni, David Woodman is Art Director at Travellers Tales Fusion
Dave Graduated from Uclan Games Design course in 2005 with great 3D modelling and digital painting skills and has worked in the games industry ever since.
These are just some of our talented and successful alumni.
There's lots more to be featured very soon.
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