Game Artist Apprentice
PLAYGROUNDSQUAD UK LTD
This is an apprenticeship that offers a pay of £99 per week, which consists of 30 hours of work (Monday - Friday, 9am - 4pm). The apprenticeship lasts for 24 months, where you learn new skills whilst doing jobs that are needed to be completed for specific reasons. In this apprenticeship as a game artist, you will learn processes like building and adding textures to worlds and characters using 3D software and tools. You will also learn techniques such as animations, motion capture, world lighting, shading and effects and learning about subjects such as digital colour, style consistency, user interface and teamwork skills which are used in modern game engines which will most likely be extremely handy for the future.
They are looking for apprentices that have a passion for things that are constantly revolving around games such as traditional art including hand drawings, sculpting. etc. They are also interested in students that have knowledge of 3D applications so they know that the student is confident about the 3D work they are doing, which also comes along with them having prior experience scripting or modding games and 3D software is also meriting, which obviously shows that the apprentice knows everything about the course and they are passionate about what they are going to do.
I think that if I took this apprenticeship, I would enjoy it quite a lot considering its based around on of the areas that I like the most which is art. I love being creative when drawing or creating characters, environments, objects, etc. I also think that this would be useful for the future as I would most likely learn more skills, become more confident in working with a team and feel less pressured within the working environment.
I think that if I took this apprenticeship, I would enjoy it quite a lot considering its based around on of the areas that I like the most which is art. I love being creative when drawing or creating characters, environments, objects, etc. I also think that this would be useful for the future as I would most likely learn more skills, become more confident in working with a team and feel less pressured within the working environment.
Programming Apprentice
T T Games Ltd
This apprenticeship offers £153.85 per week where 37.5 hours are worked and it lasts for 12 months. The company want people that have great team skills and communication, they know how code works and how to read and change it, good maths skills and a good team worker/ strategist. The apprenticeship itself will include tasks that revolve with the whole game design department where you will mainly be focusing on using assets that have been created to actually function games using things such as codes and AI. The company want students that have over 5 C's and that they are passionate about what they can do as they will be helping extremely talented and well known artists, animators and designers. I think that this course would be good because I would be learning a wide range of new things based around programming which could be really useful in many industries as there are not as many programmers nowadays and the whole process is very complex which takes talent, skill and effort.
Creative & digital media apprentice
Apprentice video games repair engineer
Console Wizard
This apprenticeship offers a weekly pay of £132 where you work in the weekdays from 9:30-5:30. It's an advanced level course that has a duration of a full 4 years where the job is to help repair certain electronic items ranging from laptops/ PCs, phones, consoles, tablets, etc. This apprenticeship also needs the apprentice to communicate with the customers face to face, over the phone to make the whole task more simple and flow faster. The apprentice needs to have good literacy skills to stay formal about the situation, where they can be polite, confident and enthusiastic about what they are doing. In this course, you will be taught level 2 functional skills in subjects such as English, Maths and IT. I think that this would be a pretty good apprenticeship because you get involved with the public more gaining more confidence which is very useful for the future when working with people that you have know idea who they are or how they act.
Web / Graphic Design Apprentice
Red Website Design Ltd
The weekly wage per week is £123.75 per week during a working period of 9-5 from Monday - Friday. The apprenticeship lasts for 12 months and the ideal candidate for this course is someone who has a passion and desire for a web-based career. In the apprenticeship, you will do web design and graphic design such as designing logos, business cards, letterheads, info-graphics and whatever else the clients may need. The requirements for this however is a minimum of 4 GCSE's C and above including Maths, English and ICT, they need to have experience with programmes such as Adobe Photoshop and/ or Illustrator, well presented, a good communicator, motivation and they are passionate about what they are doing. I think that this is a course that could be potentially interesting but I think I would enjoy a course that was more leaning to art and design rather than web design as I do not find it as enjoyable as creating things such as characters and environments.
