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For the final assignment of the Preproduction 1 course, our first year students designed am armored walker bassed on existing World War II vehicles. The students had to use the same function and style of the vehicle...

Our third year  game students just finished their group projects. In small teams they designed and made an entertainment game from scratch. Teams consist out of a blend of students from the major Game Development, Game...

Our third year  game students just finished their group projects. In small teams they designed and made an applied game for a specific question from an enterprise or organization. Teams consist out of a blend of students...

Our third year students form the major  3D production and visual effects  just finished their group projects. In small teams they made a fictitious film trailer.  

We are proud  to announce that Greygin, the start up of Brecht Kets and Mike Ptacek, former DAE teachers and also a DAE Studio’s spin off, won the Bizidee 2017 award (best Business Idea) with their Play it Safe...

 Little kids learn by playing games, big boys and girls learn by making games. After 5 weeks of studying the art of programming, we gave our students the assignment to "make a game" using the basic knowledge...

Alumnus Kwanbo Kim (on the right) is currently working at eXiin in Brussels on a game called " Ary and the Secret of Seasons ". Kwanbo was interviewed by SideFX, the company behind the amazing software Houdini,...

Alumnus Tycho Terryn has started an independent VR / game development studio called EntroPi Games in Berlin. They are pround to announce Vinyl Reality. the first DJ Mixing application that accurately recreates a...

In Stylized Design and Creation we teach the students to analyze and apply any given style in games or films. For this exercise the students referenced dinosaurs and stylized the typical characteristics.   In...

More than 100 senior DAE students are currently looking for an internship (spring of 2018), and to kickstart their search we organised our annual internship fair in October. On Friday the 13rd, no less!   Just a few...

The Rookies , a worldwide awards and mentor programme for young creatives in games, film, animation, virtual reality and 3D visualisation, have ranked Howest University, Digital Arts and Entertainment as the best school...

Alumnus Jeroen Maton who graduated with the first batch of DAE students is now working at Bungie in the USA. Bungie recently released Destiny 2 , an action shooter set in a mythic science fiction world.   ...

Belgium's biggest game studio Larian Studios has released their new game: Divinity Original Sin II and they will come over to our campus to talk about the production.    A bunch of our students have worked on...

These are the results of the level scripting exam. For this exam the students had to create a finished game in unreal engine 4 using blueprints. With this exam they have to manage their time throughout an entire semester,...

What projects did you work on so far at ILM (London)? When I started Doctor Strange and Rogue One were in delivery mode, so part of my training consisted of helping out where needed on those projects. At the moment I am...

DAE Team ‘ D amn A mazing E ducation’ scoops the top prize at Brains Eden 2017!   Brains Eden Festival is a four-day Game Jam event held in Cambridge UK, in which teams have 48 hours to make an...

Alumni Jeroen Van Hoorebeke released some shots of the characters he created for Mafia III. Jeroen works at Hanger 13 in San Francisco and is responsible for:   -High and low poly character modeling, unwrapping...

For his graduation work Olmo Potums made "Blendscape", a terrain-blending tool for the Unreal Engine 4. It aims to remove the hard intersection seams between meshes and the landscape. To achieve this, Distance...

As part of their Prototyping exam, students had to work together in a group to develop a enjoyable board game. The focus of the assignment was not to have a perfectly finished game, but more about the iterative design process,...

This semester we learned how to analyze sound, to create lipsynch, facial expressions and animal behavior. The exam assignment was intended to combine all of those elements . Students aslo needed to respect the...

The idea of this assignmnent was to recreate characters based on existing concepts, really focusing on the translation from 2D to 3D. First of all it is of course important to get a good understanding of proportion and...

For their end term project, our students at Digital Arts and Entertainment had to design a pirate island based on a small backstory. The story takes place during the Golden Age of Piracy, when sailors and privateers...

In the 3D2 module students create 3D objects using subdivision modeling techniques. They were introduced into creating procedural materials and learnt how to render using Nvidia Mental Ray. Render passes like ambient...

For this digital matte painting exercise we started from the idea that WW2 continued for some extra decades and the world powers built bigger and bigger battleships. Vessels like the -never built -"Führer Class"...

One of the main topics for our second year Game Development students and also the Game Graphics Production students is rigging. The students first learn the basics of rigging, with the focus on technical objects. ...

Antigraviator is a futuristic head-to-head racing game, made by four final-year DAE students.   You can now back them on  kickstarter !!   They've made quite some  progress  in comparison...

Hoverloop is a splitscreen aracde arena combat game made by alumnus Philippe Mesotten and Lars Driessen, together they form Not A Company .   In Hoverloop you have acces to an array of customizable drones, each...

Final year Game Development students Niels Dewitte has one the Search For A Star compitition in the UK.    With his real-time VFX entry made in Unreal Engine 4, he became "overall category winner"...

For his graduation work Dovydas Budrys explored the possibilities of making an tornado in the unreal engine that interacts with its surroundings.   Not having encountered a tornado himself as of yet, it is important...

For his graduation work , final year game development student Simon Coenen, studied how to implement soft bodies using a particle physics based simulation library created by Nvidia called FleX. Soft bodies are just one of the...

In the last few years a considerable amount of games where announced or released that have mechanics involving the player moving from the surface of a planet to space without a loading screen, without a noticeable change in...

In the course Level Editing 1 our second year students came into contact with the Unreal Engine for the first time. The students had to design and create a level for the new Unreal Tournament game. Because the task is vast and...

MyMachine  is a non-profit Flemish/Belgian initiative to promote creativity, enterpreneurship and inventive cross-pollination throughout all levels of education (primary, secondary and higher education). Digital Arts and...

 These are the results of the 3D production course from the major VFX and 3D production.  Second year students were asked to recreate a frame or set from a movie or tv-show in maya and arnold.  Hatim Toulni:...

For his graduation work,  Niels Timmerman took on the task of researching realistic behaviour and influences of water on a moving character. The goal was to make a small-scale, close-up VFX shot with a character, which...

What started as a game projects production evolved to 4 students creating their own company: Cybernetic Walrus. They are working with DAE Studios to bring their game to market. After getting a visual makeover, a new trailer...

Alumnus  Oskar Kuijken is a freelance character artist. He started out working for Triumph Studios in the Netherlands, after which he moved to Stockholm to work on Gauntlet and Helldivers with Arrowhead GS. Last year he...

For the final assignment of the Preproduction 1 our first year students designed a hovering vehicle bassed on an existing vehcile. The students had to use the same function and style of the vehcile. They could chose...

Ghent (Belgium) based visual effects studio Grid-vfx has created the visual effects for an episode of Black Sails , episode 403 . The episode had 198 vfx shots, from simple clean up to full cg shots.   ...

10 years ago, 2 Howest colleagues were in Seattle and started dreaming about a new challenge: a studytrip to Japan. This year, finally, the idea came to be, resulting in the first DAE study trip to Japan. After 2 scouting...

During the first half of the second year program, our students developed some amazing game prototypes.  But what are game prototypes I hear you ask!"   When designing games, the designer starts with a...

These are the results of  being at DAE for one semester and following the 3D1 module. This module covers the basics of low poly modeling, optimizing meshes, unwrapping, rendering out the ambient occlusion of your object,...

Here are some of the final works of Game Art Pipeline. Students had to make a realistic object from the 1914 to 1945 period.

On Friday the 2nd of February, Flemish Minister for Education Hilde Crevits visited Digital Arts & Entertainment's the Level. Here, the Minister got introduced to the different educational programs and future plans of...

 This years theme for the exam of character design was "Sherlock Holmes" with a slight touch of steampunk. The students had to design a male and female character to visualize the idea of the cocky Sherlock...

When playing a game in which you walk through lush vegetation, Sander Vander Meiren disliked it that all too often the ferns, banana leaves and other foliage do not move - or at least don't respond realistically enough to...

For their group project, the 3D production and VFX students had to make a fictitious film trailer. 

Here are some of the works of the Level Decoration course, some of which have been featured on the Unreal Engine facebook page . Students had to make a scene in Unreal Engine 4.   Dovydas Budrys , also  here...