🗝 Course Prerequisites

Students must have a minimum knowledge about videogame characters, environments and storytelling.

🧠 Course Objectives

The course is focused on:

Understanding the production pipeline for character, creature and environment design.
Understanding the various applications of character, creature and environment design in the various fields of digital content.
Analyzing the relationship between visual styles and the genres of video games.
Defining the importance of optimization and its impact on character, creature and environment design.
Defining, identifying and exploring the importance of narrative in the process of character, creature and environment design.
Understanding the importance of research, reference and life study for character, creature and environment design.
Understanding the challenges of creating characters and environments for different platforms and engines.
Understanding the challenges of creating characters and environments for different platforms and engines.
Identifying and analyzing the relationship between character design and environment design.

Lecture: Matei Branea