Confetti students celebrate win at the Nottingham Young Creative Awards
The Young Creative Awards took place at the Nottingham Playhouse on Monday evening and Confetti students were amongst the winners. The winning entry for the 19-24 bracket for Animation and Digital Media was from Confetti HE Games Technology students, Tom Russell, Barry Martin and Josh Chaplin. All 3 students  are studying a Foundation Degree at Confetti ICT. The Young Creative Awards were launched in 2009 to attract up and coming creative talent in the city and put young people in Nottingham on the creative map. Sponsors included OneNottingham, Dance4, Maber and our very own Spool. The categories were: Animation & …

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Industry Week 2013

Bigger, better, louder… Big names from the worlds of music, games TV and film are once again gearing up to present at Confetti’s Annual Industry Week event. For one week each year, Confetti students’ normal timetable is replaced by masterclasses, workshops and lectures – all delivered by key creative industry players. This years guests include Michael Eavis and Vicky McClure.
Andy Davis of Rockstar Games

The second lecture of the day and i find myself sat in front of Andy Davis a Technical Artist working at Rockstar. Andy started by telling us his background, he was into music at first, instead of gaming he was in a band, but when he decided to pack that in he went back to what he was really interested in, which was painting, architecture and 3D art. One of the strange things that he told us was that he wasn’t a big gamer and that he was only looking for a career, which I find kind of odd, but …

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Andrew Davis of Rockstar Games on his Personal Experience

Andrew Davis talks about his personal progress in the games industry. I remember when I first heard about Rockstar Games, it was after picking up a copy of the video game title GTA2 better known as Grand Theft Auto 2. I have a lot of fond memories of this title and the rest of the franchise so I was looking forward to hearing what Andrew Davis had to say. Andrew started his guest lecture by talking briefly about what he was going to discuss over the next 2 hours. He began with a slide showing his progression in the games …

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Steve Ellis of Crash Lab

On the first day of Industry week the first lecture that was scheduled was a man who had worked on games like Golden Eye, TimeSplinters 1 and 2 and SW:Battlefront 3, this man is Steve Ellis. Steve begins his lecture by telling us how the industry works and his background on working in the gaming industry, he told us that he started programming from an early age, “eight years old” he said was the age he started, the skills he had at such a young age soon escalated and it wasn’t so long after he was in primary school he …

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Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg visits Confetti

Students at Confetti welcomed a special visitor yesterday in the shape of Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg. He was in Nottingham looking at how Government City Deal money of £60m could benefit creative businesses and young people. He was taken on a tour of Confetti and the Antenna Creative Business Centre by Confetti Media Group boss Craig Chettle. The Deputy Prime Minister met students on the Games Technology, Music Technology and TV and Film courses and observed their lessons. Head of Further Education Phil Myers commented on the visit: “It’s not every day the Deputy Prime Minister gets to experience …

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