Well its a new semester, we are 6 weeks in and we have a mid term reading week! We have had some fantastic talks and workshops this semester, big thanks to the following people.
Creative Assembly
Elyse Gymer
Animator
Sony Interactive Entertainment
Adam Ostridge
VFX Artist
Double Negative
Coucke
3D Modelling
Rare
Jason Pickthall – Lead Concept Artist
Ellen Parkes – Animator
Hendrik Coppens – Character Artist
Roy Nesbitt
2D Animator Legend
Animate Projects
Rebellion
David Rolfe
Autodesk
Lee Montgomery
Framestore
Thompson
Double Negative
Josh parks
Still to come and can not wait.
Rocksteady
Mark Ranson
Jolyon Web
Natural Motion
Now that is what I call a great semester A!!
And here is some artwork
Love this new piece by Alumni Charlotte Johnson (WIP)
And some more MA and Alumni stuff
And here is a level 2 BA student Benjamin (WIP) UE4 scene
Very proud of BA/MA Alumni Sol and Mat from Rewindand everyone else their that made the Jaguar I-PACE Concept | All-Electric Jaguar Unveiled in LA -
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[://www.herts.ac.uk/courses/3d-games-art-and-design"]BA (Hons) 3D Games Art & Design with Optional Sandwich Placement/ Study Abroad](://www.herts.ac.uk/courses/3d-games-art-and-design)
New Showreel for 2016
https://vimeo/192539351
WIP from MA student Joseph Hobbs Semester A project, and that’s only one of six projects, deadline 11th Jan so I am looking forward to his final submission.
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Victoria, Just thought I would drop this of, this talk is about the History of Comic Design, Concept Art at Weta and a little bit about his current interest.
Victoria is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. He is a concept artist and illustrator and also has ten years’ experience at Weta. He has participated on such projects as The Adventures of Tintin, The Hobbit, Thor and The Dark World.
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Bits and pieces from this years MA Students, Semester A. We are really looking forward to see what these guys come up with next Semester.
We made the Level 2 BA Game Art students make a showreel in semester A this year and we have been blown away!,
Here is an example by Callum Tweedie-Walker
https://vimeo/198387714
The University of Hertfordshire joined in this years 48 hour Global Game Jam, we had 48 jammers, five games and they all uploaded by the 5pm deadline. You can download them here - I will load more media soon. ://globalgamejam.org/2017/jam-sites/university-hertfordshire/games
This game is a really good game for those that want to learn how to type faster, It comes in 1,2 or X3 player on one keyboard, it can be downloaded here, its called Jalapeno Business
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And some game play, the record is 81, can you beat it - downloaded here, Jalapeno Business
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The results are in for The Rookies - ://www.therookies.co/schools/university-of-hertfordshire/
Looking forward to seeing what everyone makes this year.
UH Graduate Scott Homer has been on quite a journey since graduating in 2011, working on the Crysis series, Homefront: The Revolution, Rise of the Tomb Raider, Paragon and Robo Recall. 
He has made this great tutorial on his Paragon Rock Workflow
The best school for Games Design and Development was announced this week. Very proud of all the students, graduates and staff, on wards and upwards.
://www.therookies.co/the-best-creative-schools-2017/
Final year BA student Chris Pereira is really killing it with his final major project “Vokyo”
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Wanderer’s Quest, A cute RPG!
Download coming soon! They have until the middle of May to add a little polish.
https://vimeo/215684876
Title - Home, its a second year project
https://vimeo/215650815
Nice to see “Fringe” making it onto the Unreal Twitch feed
Well done - Craig Payne, Euen-Tan and Benjamin Macauley
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Very proud of MA Alumni Victor Gaza’s Character Art dump - more here https://www.artstation/artist/vickgaza
He has come a long way since graduating.
Will miss Craigas he goes off to Splash Damage this month.
https://vimeo/161748135
I am happy to say a live Virtual Reality MA project went on display at the Barbican Theatre in London today made in #**UNREAL 4
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MA Students that have there levels featured in the project, look out for them in September when they graduate.
Joseph Hobbs
Regne Jose Vivas
Kiraly Nandor
Ryan Gilbert
Mads Chrisstiansen
More information can be found here - What's on – Theatre & dance | Barbican
G+VERL
360 image - https://www.facebook/createconverge/photos/a.1812421748975628.1073741828.1770192859865184/1864494750434994/?type=3&theater
