Game Art Collection

25/10/2018

A view from the Game Art Collection during Athens Games Festival 2018

04/10/2018

The 3rd Game Art Collection came to an end! Thank you for all your creative entries and for sharing your art with us 🙌

All the original 2D and 3D game art projects submitted, will be presented at the Athens Games Festival 2018, the international exhibition for game industry and IT professionals, game lovers, academics, students, organized by ΓΓ Ενημέρωσης & Επικοινωνίας / SecGen for Media & Communication.

This year’s exhibition is co-organized by SAE Creative Media College / SAE Technology Group Athens, member of the SAE Creative Media Institute.

Our critics - Dimitris Koutsomitsos, George Thanos, Aνgelos Rouvas, Dimitri Kaliviotis and Aris Tsevrenis - voted for their favorite projects, as well!
Congratulations to:
🐉 2D ART: Dimosthenis Serketzis for his work "Nefos"
🐉 3D ART: Thanos Kokkinos for his work "Dromaagk Darkclaw the Mage"

11/09/2018

⚠️ NEW DEADLINE: September 17 ⚠️

Grab your pencils ✏️ or markers ASAP, because you have 1 week left to submit your 2D or 3D art project and get the chance to show your work to the top industry professionals at the Athens Games Festival.

Info: https://bit.ly/2z3UMy2

27/08/2018

❗️Attention: DEADLINE is approaching ❗️
Want to show your 2D or 3D art skills to the top industry professionals that will attend Athens Games Festival?
Send us your project at [email protected] and win a chance to show your work!

This year’s theme: dungeons, medieval castles and mythical creatures.

Deadline: September 10, 2018.

Info: https://bit.ly/2z3UMy2

23/07/2018

📢 Meet the members of the 3rd Game Art Collection Commitee!📢

Dimitris Koutsomitsos is the 5th and final member of the GAC 2018 Committee.

Dimitris is the founder and CEO of the indie game studio Tamasenco, which is operating since 2012.
From 2016 he serves as coordinator and a member of the Board a Directors of Corallia's gi-Cluster, the Gaming and Creative Technologies & Applications Cluster of Corallia Clusters Initiative.
In 2015 his company was awarded for its impact on the entertainment and creative technologies industry in Greece, based on the corresponding productivity and innovation industry indexes; as a result Dimitris earned a spot in Fortune Magazine's ''40 under 40'' list of the most influential young people in business. Until this day Tamasenco has created and published 6 games. In the last couple of years the company has shifted their focus towards mobile games in a strategic attempt to evolve and become highly competitive internationally. With his game Wild West Saga, Dimitris has earned yet another distinction at EBGE Awards (Greek Design & Illustration Awards) in the 'applications' category, and he is now aspiring for it to reach over 1 million players!

18/07/2018

📢 Meet the members of the 3rd Game Art Collection Commitee!📢
The fourth critic for 2018 is George Thanos!

George Thanos is the coordinator of the Animation field at the SAE Creative Media College / SAE Technology Group Athens. He is a member of the SAE Institute European Animation Society, responsible for designing and developing their programme of studies. He is also the head professor in the College's BA/Bsc (Hons) Game Art Animation department.

At the same time, he works as a New Media designer and CG artist, specialising in Virtual Reality representations via either 3D models or 360˚ panoramas.
He is well established in the international Video Games industry and he has participated in several Game Development teams across the globe. He has a formal education in Music, 3D Animation and Photography, while also holding a Cultural Heritage master's degree from the University of Middlesex.

10/07/2018

📢 Meet the members of the 3rd Game Art Collection Commitee!📢
Our third critic for 2018 is Angelos Rouvas - Film director, concept artist, games researcher.

When it comes to animation, Angelos is self-taught. In 1988, he established the animation department of ΕΡΤ Α.Ε., where he produced 70 short film projects during a two-year period.

Some of his projects include:

✔️An American Tail: Fivel Goes West: Animator for the full-length feature film produced by Stephen Spielberg.
✔️ The MAGIC BIRDS Pandora and Plato: He created all the main characters of the first Greek animation series.
✔️Creation & production of 10 original projects for TV series and feature films with his company Big Bang Toons.
✔️The Little Mouse who Wanted to Touch a Star:Angelos co-directed the Greek half-hour TV special in 3D animation for which he won five awards in Greek and international festivals.
✔️He collaborated for 25 years with Magikon production company in a series of small scale productions and commercials.
✔️Greek Cinema 1905-2005: Author of the a 2,000 page two-volume book about the history of the Greek cinema.
✔️He is the founder and creator of the webportal greekanimation.com and lead author of the 70 Years of Greek Animation (2016), a 220 pages celebratory anthology edition
✔️Mentor: his latest and highly ambitious film project, is currently in production.

More info about the GAC open call for 2D & 3D projects: https://bit.ly/2z3UMy2

06/07/2018

📢 Meet the members of the 3rd Game Art Collection Commitee!📢
Our second critic for 2018 is Dimitri Kaliviotis.

Dimitri Kaliviotis was born in Montreal, but spent most of his childhood years in Athens, Greece. At the age of 17, he returned to Montreal, where he completed his studies in the art of design, focusing his mind on designing and creating functional artworks.
He spent the next decade working as a professional model maker, manufacturing miniatures, concept models, specialty props etc. for major Hollywood film productions (these include 300, Taking Lives, The Fountain, The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Mummy III and more.)
In 2012 he put his knowledge and skills into practice by joining the SAE Technology Group Athens (SAE Creative Media College in Athens) as a head instructor.
If time allows, he still creates models for video games, stop-motion animation and other audiovisual production formats.

Our Game Art Comittee is ready for your entries.
You can submit your 2D or 3D project, here: https://bit.ly/2z3UMy2

02/07/2018

📢 Meet the members of the 3rd Game Art Collection Commitee!📢

The first critic for 2018 is Aris Tsevrenis.

Aris started off as a Games Software Engineer. He worked in a number of acclaimed video game studios in London before founding his own video games production company, Terahard Studios, in November 2012.
Ever since then he has been the head of the company, which has steadily increased to 15 members and successfully completed over 70 projects in different platforms, including VR and AR, specialising in Unity.
Last year, Aris won along with his team, their first Lumiere Award for best interactive VR experience!

And...don't forget to submit your
2D or 3D project, here: https://bit.ly/2z3UMy2

14/06/2018

The Age of the Dragon has come again, and with him, the third Game Art Collection has arrived!
Open call for 2D and 3D artists!

This year we have SAE Technology Group Athens on our side!Cheers!

Athens Games Festival is an international festival dedicated to supporting and promoting games and digital culture in Greece. Bringing together game industry professionals, game developers, artists, gamers and gaming enthusiasts.

29/10/2017

☕️ Coffee+Talk with Game Art Collection Committee: Illustrator Costis Papatheodorou, 2D game animator Thanos Tsilis and Music composer & Sound Designer Vicky Fysika at the Athens Games Festival in Helexpo
🔴 Watch Live via website & YouTube Channel