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Graduate Destinations
The Academy of Interactive Entertainment has helped students become successful game programmers, game artists and 3D and VFX artists for film. AIE students have finished one or two year courses in games or film and have entered leading companies such as:
2K Games (Australia)
Airside Studio (UK)
American Broadcasting Company (Disney - USA)
Animal Logic (Australia)
BigWorld (Australia)
Bioware (USA)
Black Square Games (Hong Kong)
Blizzard Interactive (UK)
Crystal Dynamics (USA)
Criterion Studios (UK)
Deepfried Entertainment (Canada)
Discreet (World Wide)
EA Games (UK)
EIDOS (USA)
Evolution Studios (UK)
Firemint (Australia)
Framestore (UK)
Jim Henson Creature Shop (USA)
Konami (USA)
Navy Simulations Office (Australia)
Polytechnics University (Hong Kong)
Reflections Studios (UK)
Rockstar Games (UK)
Sidhe Interactive (NZ)
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (UK)
Splash Damage (UK)
Team Bondi (Australia)
THQ (Australia)
Ubi Soft (Canada)
Venom Games (UK)
Weta Digital (NZ)
Selected Games Credits
AIE Games Programming and 3D Animation for Games students have secured successful careers working on AAA titles, Indie Games, and Casual Games. The following list is just a small sample of games worked on by professionals trained at AIE:
- BioShock (2007)
- BioShock 2 (2010)
- The Godfather II (2009)
- Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel (2001)
- Freedom Force vs The 3rd Reich (2005)
- Grand Theft Auto IV (2010)
- Heroes of the Pacific (2005)
- L.A. Noire (2011)
- Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend (2006)
- Medieval II: Total War - Kingdoms (2007)
- Red Dead Redemption (2010)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Republic Heroes (2009)
- TransFormers (2004)
- XCOM (2011)
Selected Film Credits
AIE are the education experts in games, 3D and VFX. Many of our graduates who have not entered the games industry have become very successful visual effects artists and 3D animators on feature films, television commercials, and animated shorts such as:
- 300
- Australia
- Avatar
- Bridge to Terabithia
- District 9
- Eragon
- Happily N'Ever After
- Happy Feet 1 & 2
- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
- Hellboy 2: The Golden Army
- Inspector Gadget 2
- James Bond: Quantum of Solace
- King Kong
- Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
- Peter Pan
- Scooby-Doo
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
- The Golden Compass
- The Lovely Bones
- The Passion of the Christ
- Tron Legacy