Graduate Spotlight: Tomos Hywel

Tomos Hywel graduated with a first class honors degree from BA (Hons) Game Art with a dream to become a character artist.

We recently spoke with Tomos about his time on the BA (Hons) Game Art course here at the University of South Wales, here is what he had to say…

“I knew for a long time that I wanted to be a games artist but it wasn’t until my 2^nd year that I discovered I had a great interest in anatomy and creature designs and developed a keen interest in sculpting through Zbrush. I therefore decided to focus on making character and creature artwork for games.

“The Game Art course not only helped me to discover the artistic field I wanted to pursue but gave me the tools I needed to develop my skills that would one day lead me to a job in the industry.

“I now work for Airship Images, a game art outsourcing studio as a junior character artist.

“I’ve had the pleasure of creating character artwork for AAA titles and short films. With the help of my lecturers, Simon Reed and Pierre Laffoux, I was able to graduate from the course with a first class honours degree and won the award for Best Game/ Game artist at the end of the year student showcase. I later won the award at the ‘Ffresh student festival’ for the same category. I started the course without any knowledge of 3d modelling and later graduated with the skills I needed to get noticed by the game industry.”

To see more of Tomos’ work please take a look at Artstation https://www.artstation.com/artist/tomos or his blog http://tomoshevans.blogspot.co.uk/

For more information on how to apply or to book a place at one of our open days please visit http://www.southwales.ac.uk/games