Game Art

Game Art provides a dynamic and balanced education for students interested in careers in the game industry or other professional fields engaged in the creation of interactive visual media for entertainment, education, and cultural communication. Students learn how to create game art and develop games informed by a critical understanding of games as cultural media using a variety of aesthetic strategies. Game artists at Cornish learn to work at the intersection of art and design, experiment with game technologies to pursue new expressive goals, and collaborate with other artists to realize game projects.

Upon completion of their program of study, graduates are able to:

1. Create game art projects that support a variety of aesthetic strategies.

2. Collaborate with diverse artists and designers to realize game projects.

3. Design innovative game art that reflects a critical understanding of games as cultural media, including the historical, political, and aesthetic aspects of creating game art.

4. Communicate effectively about game art to professional and public audiences.

5. Practice technically sound, adaptive workflows and revise artwork in response to project constraints to produce functional game art.

6. Develop career strategies informed by cultural research and analysis of the contemporary game industry.