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Want to know what DigiPen students are capable of creating? Check out some of these outstanding student projects in games, art, animation, and engineering.

Student Games

DigiPen students apply their knowledge each year to a series of increasingly complex, multidisciplinary game projects. These projects challenge students to build their own tools and technology from the ground up as they collaborate with their peers on a large, shared codebase. By leveraging the power of solid teamwork, careful planning, and communication, they learn firsthand how to create compelling interactive experiences that strive for amazing art direction, sophisticated design, and technical excellence.

Arc Apellago

Platformer

Traverse the sky in this open-air platformer featuring elegant, fluid movement and swift combat.

Broken statue on a floating island

Isles of Limbo

Combat

Use your weapons and agility to maintain the order of the void in this hack-and-slash arena combat game.

Skull-faced creature on an upside-down island

Homeland: Lay to Rest

Adventure

After a mysterious calamity befalls an underground city, a young monk returns to their abandoned homeland in this 3D action adventure game.

Monk explores an underground city in ruins

Nohra

Platformer

Escape from a sprawling underground lab in this fast-paced precision platform game.

Bipedal creature jump through traps

Student Animations

Applying all of the skills and techniques they have learned in the classroom, students in the BFA in Digital Art and Animation program tackle a series of short film projects as a part of their program coursework. In addition to showcasing their technical mastery of digital tools and artistic fundamentals, these films give students the chance to discover what it means to evoke emotion through visual storytelling and bring characters to life.

A girl facing a brick wall spray-painted with two figures, one pink, one green, holding hands around a bright sun

Award Winning Animation
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Award Winning

A young woman in glasses stands in the rain in front of a white brick wall with ivy growing on it.

Etude

A young girl working at a pizza parlor counter puts a pencil to her chin as she thinks of what to draw in her notebook.

Galaxy Girl

A girl flaps her hands in the back seat of a car.

Flap

Student Art

To excel in the digital arts requires more than innate talent. It takes years of discipline, study, and a keen understanding of the visual language found within nature, architecture, and the world around us. With time and dedication, students in the BFA in Digital Art and Animation program gain not only the ability to imagine new worlds altogether, but also the skills and insights to bring those ideas to life through captivating imagery. These are just a few fine examples of what our students have created at DigiPen.

3D Modeling

Close up of a man’s back

Digital Painting

digital painting of a happy purple alligator hiding playfully under a large leaf while a bird flies overhead

Drawing

A detailed drawing of a tree branch

Fabrication

A colorful, terrace-roofed tower

Painting

still-life traditional painting of a tea cup, a lemon, scissors, and a roll of blue painter's tape on a white draped sheet

Inspiring Stories

A demonstration of different Unity Shader Graph effects applied to the same sci-fi character model.

Alumni

From Tech Art Club to Tech Artists at Unity

Blending programming with art, two alumni discuss the unique hybrid field they discovered at DigiPen.

Two DigiPen banners on pole set against fall scenery

Announcements

DigiPen Named a Top 5 Game Design School by Princeton Review in 2021 Rankings

For the 12th straight year, The Princeton Review has named DigiPen Institute of Technology one of the top five game design schools in North America and abroad.

Lawrence Schwedler behind the sound board

Faculty

Watch Now: DigiPen's Lawrence Schwedler Composes a Video Game Musical Theme

In this DigiPen Direct video tutorial series, former Nintendo audio director Lawrence Schwedler creates the music for a sci-fi student game project.