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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.

Descend Into Stone

Adventure

Solve the mystery of a cursed spear as you descend through the ruins of a long-dead civilization.

A man reaches for a glowing orb.

Project: Gemini

Multiplayer

Grab a friend and fight your way through a city taken over by cybernetic drones in this cooperative, side-scrolling combat adventure.

Neon cityscape at night; two characters stand on a platform surrounded by pulse-firing drones.

Adventure Slime

Platformer

Hop and bounce your way through a dangerous magical forest in this narrated platformer adventure.

A round slime character gets ready to bounce off of a mushroom over a shallow pool filled with deadly pink goop.

Vectrix

Combat

Blast and maneuver through waves of spawning enemies in this retro-styled arcade shoot ‘em up inspired by John Conway’s “Game of Life.”

A pixellated spaceship, surrounded by grid-based enemies, fires a stream of projectiles.

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

Half-Life: Alyx screenshot – close-up view of the ‘gravity gloves’ device

Alumni

With Half-Life: Alyx, DigiPen Graduate Kerry Davis Helps Redefine VR Games

Kerry Davis, one of 14 DigiPen alumni who worked on Valve’s Half-Life: Alyx, talks about his contributions to the innovative ‘gravity gloves’ and more.

Cory Carson smiles alongside his parents with his little sister, Chrissy Carson, sitting on top of his roof.

Alumni

A DigiPen Duo Brings Cuddly Cars to Life on Netflix’s Go! Go! Cory Carson

At Kuku Studios, story artists Jessica Gallaher and Lauren Stutzriem delight preschoolers alongside former Pixar pros.

A DigiPen student levitates and codes in a green digital space next to a knight with a DigiPen shield.

Faculty

Why DigiPen's Computer Science Education Is Different

An animated comic with Program Director Prasanna Ghali on what sets DigiPen apart.