MA Advanced 3D Game Art

The MA Advanced 3D Game Art at Buckinghamshire New University is designed to give you the knowledge and skills necessary to work as a professional 3D game artist. In this course, you’ll study various advanced practices such as character and environment modelling, lighting, rigging, real-time rendering, and optimisation for game engines.

The MA Advanced 3D Game Art at Buckinghamshire New University will help you understand the creative and technical aspects of game art production using several industry-standard tools and workflows. You will learn how to create high-quality, game-ready assets and build a polished showreel suitable for the competitive games industry.

Teaching and learning for this course are mainly interactive, combining lectures with tutorials, seminars, guest speakers, and practical lab sessions. You’ll get hands-on experience working on live briefs and creative projects that mirror industry standards. Assessment comes in the form of written assignments, portfolio development, presentations, and project-based evaluations.

Buckinghamshire New University was founded in 1893 and is located across two campuses in High Wycombe and Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. It offers a wide range of programmes (undergraduate, postgraduate, and research levels) across disciplines such as Business, Computing, Engineering, Health and Social Care, Media and the Creative Arts.

BNU holds accreditations from professional bodies such as the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), the British Computer Society (BCS), and the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). Presently, the university has over 13,000 students enrolled, which includes international students.

To study MA Advanced 3D Game Art at Buckinghamshire New University, the following requirements must be met:

The university considered applicants without formal qualifications. However, you must have significant professional experience and a sound portfolio in this field or a related one.

Grade requirements

• Typically, you should have a bachelor's degree or equivalent in a relevant subject.

English Proficiency

• Non-native English speakers may need to demonstrate proficiency in the language, typically through an IELTS score of at least 6.0. TOEFL or other equivalents are also allowed.

The tuition fee (2025/2026 session) to study MA Advanced 3D Game Art at Buckinghamshire New University is £15,500 per year.

Buckinghamshire New University offers several scholarships and bursaries to help less privileged as well as exceptional students. An example is the Vice Chancellor’s International Students Scholarship.

With an MA in Advanced 3D Game Art from Buckinghamshire New University, you are open to the jobs below:

• 3D Character Artist
• Environment Artist
• Technical Artist
• Game Asset Designer
• Visual Effects (VFX) Artist
• Level Designer

To apply for this course, you’ll need to go through UCAS. To find out more about this process, speak to one of our trained counsellors.