WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?

The knowledge you will acquire is multidisciplinary and conceived so that they become a relevant factor at the job market, making you the leaders among the new creative breed that will shape the world we live in.

Students who decide to rule the world of animation and illustration will be able to learn all the theoretical and practical processes involved in the making of video games, but that’s not all.

Through mastering individual skills, such as 3D modeling or animation, you will be trained to turn your basic idea into reality, i.e. learn how to turn an early concept into a full video game. You will learn how to animate, illustrate, model in 3D, and you will also master art direction. You will learn about the role of photography and about character design.

WHAT SKILLS AND ABILITIES SHOULD ART GAMERS HAVE?

The need to make an imagined universe convincing, memorable, visually accessible and realer than real required special creativity and special knowledge:

• You need to have a lot of originality and self-confidence;
• Find inspiration for creation in real life;
• Basic understanding of anatomy and architecture;
• Ability to faithfully present facial expressions;
• Sense of color, space, perspective, modeling, lighting;
• Imagination and creativity;
• Ability to pay attention to the smallest of details.

WHAT WILL YOUR JOB INVOLVE?

Everyone who decides to become animators and illustrators will have a chance to learn the fundamental theoretical and practical processes involved in the making of video games, as well as all other forms of 2D and 3D animation. Upon completion of the studies, they can embrace a career full of interesting challenges. The scope of a game artist’s responsibilities is rather broad:

• Providing video game ideas and concepts;
• Developing video game ideas and concepts – the theme of the game, creating the universe where the game takes place;
• Creating and modeling characters, their appearance, their development, backstory and character symbolism;
• Matching the video game script with the visual effects;
• Designing levels and maps with all their objects;
• Creating the elements of video game narration and defining the gameplay.

Prestigious Adobe certificates

Faculty of Contemporary Arts provides its students with the possibility of taking exams for the prestigious Adobe certificates, acknowledged worldwide, upon the completion of studies. The teaching program is designed so that you acquire knowledge from Photoshop, Illustrator and other Adobe software, which constitutes the alphabet for any contemporary graphic designer.

The IT skills you acquire at the Faculty of Contemporary Arts allow you to pass the exams for Adobe certification and give you a significant advantage over others when it comes to job applications.

Adobe certification

• ACP Visual design using Photoshop;
• ACP Graphic design & illustration using Adobe Illustrator;
• ACP Print & digital media publication using Adobe InDesign;
• ACP Web authoring using Adobe Dreamweaver;
• ACP Digital video using Adobe Premiere Pro;
• ACP Visual effects & motion graphics using Adobe After Effects;
• ACP Multiplatform animation using Adobe Animate CC.

THE FACULTY OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS IS A FULL MEMBER OF GIDE – AN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC GROUP OF DIFFERENT FACULTIES OF DESIGN

This is a great success for one national faculty, and obtaining partner status is also an indicator of the recognition and reputation that our faculty has in the international academic community among European faculties of this kind. Thus, FCA officially became part of the academic community of the most prestigious European faculties of design.

Faculties that are current members of GIDE are the following: Politecnico di Milano, the most prestigious faculty of design in Europe; Thomas More (Mechelen/Antwerp), the largest interior design faculty in Belgium; Universidade da Madeira (Portugal); University of Dundee (Scotland); Faculty of Design (Ljubljana); University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (Lugano); Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Spain); Faculty of Contemporary Arts (Belgrade).