Since 2018, Scream School has been providing professional training in computer graphics, animation, and game development to meet the increased demand of entertainment companies for talents with hands-on experience and a competitive portfolio. In 2020, the School shifted its focus to concentrate on preparing specialists for a career in all kinds of jobs in the gaming industry.
At Scream School, the students work on real briefs from the companies from day one. The School partners with FunPlus Studio, Wargaming, OWL Games, Mail.ru, DESTINY GAMES, RJ Games, Epic Games, Playstation, Playrix, BANZAI Games, Nekki, Azur Games, Talerock, 1С Games, Sperasoft, Crazy Panda, Work Grafit, Game Insight. Scream School is an authorized training center for Adobe, Side Effects, Autodesk, and The Foundry in Russia. Scream School has around 800 students each year. Over the last 10 years, the School has got over 2000 alumni, 95 percent of the graduates are working in the games industry.
Key subjects being taught at Scream School:
- Game Development: Concept Art, Game Design, Gaming Graphics
- Computer Graphics and Animation: Motion Design, VFX Artist, Compositing Artist, Animation, 3D Artist
- Marketing and Analytics in the gaming industry
- Game Production
- Programming in Unity & Unreal Engine
Modes of training: long-term programs (1–2 years), short-term programs (1–3 months), preparation courses (4 months). Since 2020, Scream School has been gradually shifting to online and blended learning.
The gaming industry is not just game design and game development. Up to 80 percent of the staff working at any major game company are doing something else — like market research and user analytics, marketing, operations, community management, customer support, video game toys, and holding offline events for 300 thousand people. If you are dreaming of a job in video games — and we know, that you are —, we can offer you four times more points of entry into the industry than any other GameDev school in the world.