Seamedu Media School - Perfect platform for a Career in Media

THE COURSE

The Game Design program is a step towards learning to make FUN games. The Game Design program will teach students to make better games with an experience equal to international standards.

Some of the key highlights of our Game Design program are:

Learn from faculty with International Exposure (worked with companies like EA Sports)
First Semester project-Board Game Design
Second Semester Project - Small Digital Game
Learn to develop Game Concept Documents & Game Design Document,
Partner with Game Programming students to develop game Ideas
Develop Game Prototype using Game Engines like Unity
Mo-Cap Editing with Motion Builder
Introduction to Sound Design for games
Game Zone with latest gaming consoles-PSP, XBOX, Nintendo, Board & Digital Games
Opportunity to develop select student game ideas
Participate in game events, Game Meet, Gamestorm & NASSCOM events
Internship opportunity with partners - Rolocule Games & Toolbox Studio

CURRICULUM

Objective-Focus on Game Analysis & design

TERM 1

Design fundamentals-I
Gaming History -I
Game Design Concept -I
Introduction to Game design tool - MDA (Mechanics / Dynamics / Aesthetics) FADT (Formal abstract design)
Photoshop for Game -I
Introduction to 3D (Maya) for Game

Other

Report to Game using MDA FADT, playing & Analysing games, workshop on sound design for game.

Project

Developing paper prototype of a simple game /design a board game

Objective- Focus on 3D Maya & Technical Skills

TERM 2

Design fundamentals- ll
Gaming History -II
Game Design Concept -II (Game idea barnstorming, how to pitch a game to the publisher)
Photoshop (Basic of Texturing using Photoshop) for game -II
Maya - 3D modelling for Game

Other

Writing skill Development, introduction to utilities for game

Project

Building Game level, Develop game idea, Write game GDD

Objective-Focus Game content Creation in 3d

TERM 3

Design fundamental - III
Game History-III
3D Maya - III (Modelling & Texturing for Game, rigging & Animation for Game)
Photoshop for Game - III
Introduction to Motion Builder

Other

Game Videos cinematic (Fake footage), time management, pitching a game idea

Project

Creating Game Assets & animation, team formation, game planning (with programming team)

Objective-Focus on creating fished Game prototype & Final demo reel

TERM 4

Design Fundamental - IV
Photoshop for Game -IV
Introduction to Z-Brush for Game
3D effects for Game (Maya) - IV
Introduction to Editing, Sound & VFX for game
Media output methods

Other

Presentation & Interview Skills, Internships

Project

Develop game prototype with programming students, Final Demo reel

FACULTY

Harold Raichur - Director Seamedu Animation & Arts
Harold Raichur is a Visualizer and Creative, with a knack for Storytelling. His interests vary from Philosophy to History, Football to Animation, Books to Comics, and Teaching to Trekking. He brings a practical & hands on approach to everything he does. A self learnt, student of Animation, and Filmmaking in particular. He loves to write & direct original content like Short Films, Game content, Short Stories, Comics & and anything to do with the visual media.

Rohit Gupta, Founder - CEO (Rolocule Games) - Mentor-Game Design & Game Programming
Prior to Rolocule, Rohit was a part of "THE SIMS 3" engineering team at Electronic Arts (EA) headquarters in Redwood City, California. He has also held positions at Infosys Technologies, where he was also awarded Best Software Engineer award in 2006. He seems to be obsessed with computer games, superman and tea, and intends to spend rest of his life entertaining people. He is not evil but turns to Lex Luthor for good business tips. Rohit holds Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science from Columbia University, New York and BE in Computer Engineering from Pune Institute of Computer Technology (University of Pune). For more details visit: www.rolocule.com.

Akhlaque Shaikh - Technical Head-3d & Visual Effects
Aks(short for Akhlaque) -Bachelor in Computer Engineering wouldn't have come to be in this position if he hadn't accompanied a friend, sadly for his friend who didn't join what Aks did-ANIAMATION! Since then he has progressed from being the first motion builder trainer to studios, to a maya expert and later a technical head. In-between all this he was able to co-found Id Animation & Arts. At the present Aks is busy un ravelling the future course of SeamEdu nextgen training pipeline, namely HOUDINI, Mo-Cap & Game Technology. He is largely self learnt and has a passion for animation and 8 years to back it all. He has technical expertise over major 3D, 2D and Compositing programs & all things technical. He has been involved in short filmmaking and commercials, as Technical Director. He maintains a blog, likes photography & going to the Gym.

Abid Shaikh - Senior Faculty-3d General/Rigging
Abid started his career as a modelling artist, then he moved on to rigging & at the present he is working his hand at animation. In the mean while in a short span of 5 years , of which 4 years he worked with TOON GEEKS SOFTWARE PVT. LTD ,making two direct to video 3d movies (Chandarani ...A Dream to reality, Sonam ...Aur saath Ajube) in the capacity of Technical Lead & Project Manager. Abid is a people's person and easy to get along, thus when he chose to take the plunge form the hustle of a studio to the bustle of a School, he had all the needed expertise of a professional Animation artist & the patience of a trainer. Presently Abid is Sr Faculty , guiding the students with the best practices both technically & artistically to his Students. As Abid comes from the studio background, he is able to call upon many of his animation experts in the industry to take on special sessions at SeamEdu.

Kunal Lanjekar - Senior Faculty (Visiting) --Design Fundamentals, 3d
He is multi-talented & very hard working individual with very strong leanings towards Graphics, Tattoos, Animation Design and Teaching in no particular order. A GD Arts graduate, he has completed his animation studies with a post graduate diploma from CDAC. He is also pursuing a degree course in instructional design with Symbiosis College. He is a freelance animation professional having working with Australian & Indian studios. Currently he also teaches animation at Vishwakarma Creative I college,pune. His ability to multitask & stretch his time not only allows him to seek and successfully complete a his various projects but also fulfil his creativity by making short films & supervise Game projects. At SeamEdu Kunal, teaches design, Advance Character Modelling & Texturing to the various animation streams.

Rohan Dalvi - Senior Faculty (Visiting) -3d Dynamics & Visual Effects
With over 12 years of experience in the animation business he has worked for various Advt Agencies and Studios including, Phoebus Media, Indian Magic Eye, Digital Art, etc. He was the 3d Visual Effects lead on "Dashavataar" the 2d animated film. Earlier in his career Rohan has worked on Advertisements, architectural and industrial visualization projects and continues to do so. Rohan is a software geek, with a voracious appetite to delve into any 3d/2d software and then happily go about sharing his knowledge with whoever will listen. Rohan loves to teach & has been into training/ teaching for 10 years. He has & continues to teach at various animation Institutes & colleges . He founded " Institute for Advanced Animation" , which he currently heads to impart advanced 3d ,Vfx & animation to professional in a short duration. At Seamedu Rohan will teach the advanced level courses for 3d animation mainly, Lighting,Rendering, Visual Effects and Compositing.

Kunal Shrigondekar - Visiting Faculty-- Cinematography, Studio Lighting
In his words Wants to explore the deep ocean of Television Media & become a Professional success in the T.V & Media industry.His goal is to become a good Camera artist & Cinematographer. He is a team player in my team and looks out for challenge and exitement. His has a deep interest in the Camera has resulted in the pursuit of Photography, Videography & filmmaking, as a student and now as a professional. Kunal is credited for his work on Documentaries, short films, Promotional & Advertisements, Music Videos, TV Serials & Reality Shows for Television. At SeamEdu it his expertise with the camera ensures that the Animation & Vfx students have the benefit of understanding and using professional camera systems in both the studio and on the sets with a dedicated professional.

Shantanu Kulkarni - UI Designer (IISc Bangalore)--Mentor-Game Design
Shantanu is an industrial designer from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Having an engineering background he was always keen to do product design but he is more inclined towards product development. He has gained a lot of experience in the organizations like Larsen & Toubro & TATA Motors, working on defence products to automobiles. Recently he is a part of user experience design teams of leading IT organizations. Because of the industrial design background & user experience design exposure, Shantanu brings in user centric approach in every design phase. He gives a guidance from a product development perspective to give an end to end solution. His areas of interest are Learning & entertainment. He has recently published a research paper in "Conference for Advances in Usability Engineering" (CAUE, 2008) on learn-ability testing of e-learning applications. His recent study includes application of cognitive theories in the Game Development/ entertainment industry. Shantanu, brings his expertise in product design, ergonomics, aesthetics along with his User Interface (UI) skills to help the game design students, make good games.

Mr Bharat Sachdev - (Toolbox Studios, Mumbai)
10 years Visual Effects Vfx Compositing artist ,Studied at Centennial College Canada & having worked with Tata Elxsi & DreamWorks Bangalore

FACILITY

Large Class rooms with AC & Abundant Lighting arrangement, Media School environment
High end HP Workstations with Nvidia Graphic Cards, recommended by Autodesk
Dedicated in-house Shooting Studio with Green Screen(Chroma) Facility , Digital recording Technologies & equipments
Game Zone & Gaming Consoles PSP, XBOX, Nintendo, Digital & Board Games
Professional Sound Recording Studio with latest Mixing Consoles, MIDI production units, Musical Instruments, Mikes
Dedicated Video Production Facility with High End Video Cameras, Studio Lighting Equipment, Dedicated Editing bay, Tele Prompter,
Dedicated Apple iMac Lab
Library with books on Modelling, Texturing, Animation, Design, Anatomy, Architecture, Storytelling, Character Design, Visual Effects, Game Design, Comics, Novels, Visual Story Telling, Maya, Max, Short Film Making, Directing, Story Boarding & many more
Dedicated server/ data storage facility, 2mbps Internet lines with UPS backup facility & Cummins Generator for electricity backup,

CAREER PROSPECTS

Visual Effects have a large no of entry level positions for those looking to start a career. Those looking to make a career in Visual Effects usually work with the TV , advertisement & Film industry. But with the opening of the gaming industry, the demand for Visual effects for Games is also growing , thus opening up newer possibilities.
The Indian film industry has started using visual effects in a large way-Film like 'Robot (Endhiran)' where we saw 'Rajnikanth' do the impossible deed of travelling around a moving train ( That scene was shot in Pune,near Khadki railway station). Sharukh Khan will be seen in a completely Visual Effects dominated film 'Ra-1', produced by 'Red Chillies' & even local Marathi films like 'Hapoos' where are very own 'Toolbox Studio' designed the Visual effects is proof enough that the future of the Visual effects industry is bright.

Game Designer
Level Designer
UI Designer
Game Artist-2d
Game Artist-3d
Set Modeller
Character Rigger & Animator
Game Texturing Artist

FAQ

What is a Game Design?
"Game Design" does not mean "programming," and it does not mean "graphic design." if you are going to design games--you need to understand what makes the world work and use that knowledge to makes games fun. Game designers are, above all, effective communicators and storytellers who create ideas which becomes into a game played by others. Graphics, Programming, sets are just the pieces which helps one see the game in action

What is the minimum qualification required to do Game Design course?
10 + 2 , Love to play Games, Interest in making games

What is the duration of the course?
12 month's 4 hours a day, 3d days a week

What is the duration of the course?
12 month's 3 days a week - 4 hours a day.

After completing this course, What role I can play?
Any one completing this course, work as,

Game Designer
Modeling Artist for Game
Texturing Artist for Game
Level Designer
Environment Artist
Game Producer
Game tester/Quality Assurance

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Gaming Cos.	Location
EA Games India Pvt. Ltd. (website)	India
Exigent (website)	India
Gameshastra	Hyderabad
Game loft	Hyderabad
Ea mobiles	Hyderabad
7seas	Hyderabad
Zen Technologies	Hyderabad
VMC( Now it is Octane)	Hyderabad
Fx Labs	Hyderabad
Immersive Games (formerly Aurona Technologies)	Hyderabad
Tiger Tails	Hyderabad
Rel Q (Now it is an HP Company)	Bangalore
E4E	Bangalore
Digital Chocolate	Bangalore
Dhruva Interactive	Bangalore
Paprikaas Interactive Services	Bangalore
Robosoft Technologies	Bangalore
Gameshastra (website)	Bangalore
K2 Network (website)	Bangalore
Nazara Technologies	Mumbai

Gaming Cos.	Location
Milestone Interactive	Mumbai
Zapak	Mumbai
E-X press	Mumbai
Excel Interactive	Mumbai
Trine	Mumbai
Jump Games/Reliance Big	Mumbai
Mauj	Mumbai
Hungama	Mumbai
Games2Win	Mumbai
Indiagames	Mumbai
Kreeda	Mumbai
Redington	Chennai
Red Octane	Chennai
Ubisoft	Pune
Jump Games/Reliance Big	Pune
Globalstep	Pune
Lakshya Digita	New Delhi
Zatun	Ahmedabad
RZ2 Games	Goa