Binks Yard: Students support Notts new canal-side entertainment destination

Splendour Festival is back and Confetti will be playing its part for the eighth year!

We are pleased to announce that the Industry Week 2022 website is now live!

The Festival of Science and Curiosity (7-16 February 2022) featured a range of science-related activities across Nottinghamshire. Find out how Confetti students supported this year’s fantastic line-up of events.

Graduates from our Visual Effects courses are celebrating after landing jobs with notable VFX companies working on upcoming blockbusters like “the Batman”, and a new Tom Hardy Netflix film, “Havoc”.

Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies recently hosted two international esports tournaments, including the first in-studio Halo Infinite esports broadcast. Thanks to the efforts of Confetti students, their tutors and the Confetti Tech Team, the activities raised over £5,000 for Maggie’s cancer care charity.

Left Bank Pictures have recently wrapped production on a new ITV drama, “Without Sin”, featuring Line of Duty star Vicky McClure. Confetti graduate, Ben Raven, talks about his experiences being part of the production team.

Famous musical family from Nottingham, the Kanneh-Masons, have recently filmed their Christmas TV special at Confetti’s live performance venue, Metronome. “A Musical Family Christmas with the Kanneh-Masons” has been produced for BBC Two and will air on Christmas Day at 8.35pm.

Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies is set to make Nottingham an emerging UK centre for esports through its world-class esports production facilities. In January 2022 Confetti will be hosting two exciting esports events: ‘Halo Clash Series’ and the Rainbow Six Siege ‘Memevitational’.

Games Art students from Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies are set to provide research and development support to Stone Sword Games in early 2022. The support comes fresh off the back of their £1 million crowdfunding campaign for their new tabletop duelling game, Senjutsu.

Part of Nottingham Trent University, Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies has become an Education Ambassador for community interest group, Women in Games. Confetti will work together with Women in Games to champion diversity in what is the most gender imbalanced of all creative industries.

It has been a great start to the year for our Games courses – our friends at Warlord Games kindly invited a selection of our college and degree students to their first Open Day event since 2019

Two of our students were given the opportunity to work alongside the touring crew for Easy Life as they made their return to the stage.