1. Week 8: Video and Game
Design
Digital Design Survey

2. Goals this Week
• Learn more about the Video and Web AAS
Degree at LWIT
• Learn about career opportunities in the
Game Design field
• Learn more about the Animation/Game
Design Degree at LWIT

3. About the Video and Web Program
• Designed to meet the needs of the Seattle
marketplace
• Accounts for new methods of distribution
of video content
• Designed to create pr-editors

4. Visit mmdpvideo.com

5. Check out a collection of student
work

6. Video and 3D Design
How are these worlds converging?

7. What makes you interested in
learning about game design?

8. Where are we seeing those skills
needed now?

9. Job Search Activity
• Let’s look for some 3D jobs by visiting
some of the local companies:
– Bungie
– Valve
– WB Games
• What seem to be some common job titles
and paths?

10. Other places we are seeing
skills
• Interactivity on the Web
• Gamification of everything
– Dropbox: How I can score more space
• The stock market / financial decisions
• 3D Models - Biology
• Google Maps

11. Let’s look at some 3D work

12. Jeremy Kool

13. Aleksandr Novoselov
• Pilot’s Path iOS
Game

14. Behance Exploration
• Take a look around the Visual Effects,
Cartooning, Computer Animation Game
Design areas of Behance
– Which work is most interesting to you?
– What aligns with your own aesthetic?

15. Interview with Oliver Chipping
• Currently a Senior Artist at Riot Games in
Los Angeles.
• Formerly of Blizzard and Disney
Interactive
• Oliverchipping.blogspot.com

16. Final Project Description
• Let’s discuss the final project!

17. Work for this week
• Intro to Windows – Chapters 4 & 5
• Week 8 Discussion – Influential people in
the game design field
• Begin thinking about your Final Project –
do some initial work