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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.

Witchpunk

Combat

Play as the Mollie, the skateboarding witch, in this third-person arena-based thrash-em-up.

Skateboarding witch skates around a city plaza

ShadowBringer

Stealth

Escape from an underground research facility in this 3D stealth game where you play as the monster.

Clawed creature approaches an operating table in a lab

Ceramic Soul

Puzzle

Play as a ceramic doll brought to life in this horror-tinged puzzle adventure.

Porcelain doll in a room with floating toy blocks

Cyrah's Ascent

Adventure

Use your mystical abilities of combat and traversal to defeat the dark creatures that destroyed your village in this 3D action adventure.

Woman confronts a dark and monstrous creature in icy ruins

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 dog pushes another away while setting a snare trap.

PrePAWsterous

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

Flap

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

Etude

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

Renatta, hero of student game Lirica, overlooks a lake as the sun sets.

Alumni

Natalie Spitzel’s Video Game Thesis Lirica Brings Opera to Your Operating System

The DigiPen graduate reflects on merging her love for opera with digital art and going her own way as an MFA.

Screenshots from 2022 DigiPen student games

Students

Watch the 2022 DigiPen Student Game Showcase

Check out trailers for the game projects that DigiPen students created during the 2021-22 academic year.

A 3D turnaround of a boar character holding a large fish and a spear.

Students

Three DigiPen Seniors Earn Top Honors at 2021 World of Warcraft Student Art Contest

BFA students Hwa Min Jung, Annie Hanson, and Joe Rouverol discuss their award-winning entries.