Project 2: Task 2

Create a list of job roles you are interested in and the required skills needed to be able to do these job roles (minimum of 3).

Concept artist

• Qualifications needed include certification or a degree in fine art, graphic design, computer art, illustration, animation or any other art-related certificate.
• Transferable skills include creativity (being able to come up with designs), people skills (listening to prompts and details given for the work) and time management (getting the work done on a schedule).

Video Game Script Writer

• Qualifications needed include high grades in English Language and/or English Literature, and companies usually tend to hire people with bachelor’s degrees. Although not a qualification, in order to fulfil this role you must have a passion for writing.
• Transferable skills include planning skills (the ability to draft out scripts and refine them), creativity (being able to take a brief outline and improvise to get a detailed end product), people skills (working with a team to discuss ideas) and time management (getting the script done before the deadline).

Video Game Animator

• Qualifications needed include certification or a degree in fine art, graphic design, computer art, illustration, animation or any other art-related certificate, another option including completing a bachelor’s animation degree program.
• Transferable skills include creativity (in order to create the animations), the willingness to work as a team (for proficiency, working in a team to make sure the animation is perfect with contribution from everyone), immaculate attention to detail (the ability to create fluid and detail-packed animations) and absorbing information quickly in hand with time management (in order to complete work and keep to the deadline).

Project 2: Task 1

Research into Universities, Apprenticeships and Jobs you are interested in for when you completed this course.

1.    What are your ambitions within the Games Industry?

My ambitions are to work in a comfortable environment, where I am able to perform freely and enjoy getting up in the morning. I would also want a job where I have an adequate paycheck, which would allow me to live outside of my job with a plentiful amount of money. I want to work independently and at my own pace to create media that can help me pay my bills.

2. What would you like to do? What would you like to do when you complete this course?

In the future, I would like to create a range of content that can be purchased for entertainment purposes through game creation. I would like to broaden my horizons and work hard to improve on the elements in the industry that I struggle with, in order to level my playing field and become a jack-of-all-trades. Meanwhile, once I finish the course, I would like to take a year off in order to establish a sum of money to help pay for my University course, where I wish to take Games Design.