What design school is the best in the UK?

Best Universities for 3D Design degree?

• Hi. I'm from Poland and I'm 18. Next year I'm planning to start at some university. The problem is, I cannot choose the right one... I would like to work as a 3D Artist, making games, or working in a Film as a 3D Model Artist. I would also like to attend to a good university, preferably in London, but may be in the rest of UK as well. I know one of the best is Full Sail in US, but I think it's too far, plus the fees are a bit pricey.. I checked up some of the London's Universities, and Imperial seems ok, but there is no such thing as Game Design or even similar. Everywhere I see there's Computer Science.. There is one school in Huddersfiels, UK offering such a degree, but I don't think it's any good. Even Oxford has only Computer Science, nothing more. What should I do ? Please, help! Any ideas?

• Answer:

  The only decent one I know of is at Southhampton but that is a post graduate course. However in creative industries degrees and bits of paper are less important, what is important is your portfolio. This guy for example http://www.stephen-hawes.co.uk/ I've known for years, he has NO qualifications and no formal training, he is a bedroom type and he had managed to get and hold onto a job for the last 8 years. My friend Toby also has worked on project gotham racing in Liverpool and has no formal qualifications. Make a fantastic portfolio and send it out to games studios if they see you can produce something unique or see that you have skill then you'll get hired. Some key elements are the ability to draw from that comes everything, for example there are 100s of books on how to make models of 3d characters but if you look at them since 3DSmax 2 it has and still has stemmed from the ability to draw things.. As any monkey can be taught to press buttons. DONOT GO TO SALFORD they have a university degree about games design, it is rubbish and everybody who took it now works in McDonalds.