UTAD, University of technology and Digital Art, launches for the first time the contest ‘ Digital Talent’ in order to encourage and reward the talent and skills of the current students of 1st and 2nd year of high school in the areas related to the digital economy in which U-tad is a pioneer.
The initiative consists of three different contests and individual nature which will result in a winner in each discipline corresponding to the three main training areas which are taught in UTAD: animation and Visual design, videogames and engineering.
Three students who are winners will be awarded with a scholarship to study the degree they choose from the current training offered that he teaches in UTAD, which offers the possibility of a future job in an industry in constant growth and innovation.
The competition is aimed at students of 1st and 2nd high school of all public, private and Charter schools in Spain.
Phases and the contest mechanics
Students interested in participating should register through the web www.concursodigitaltalent.com . So the student can sign up in the competition, previously the educational centre has to be high this Web.
Students can choose, depending on their abilities or skills, participate in one of these three disciplines:
- Animation and Visual design: design a character
- Video: create a video game
- Engineering: design of an app for mobile
The sweepstakes begins on December 1 and in February he will give the name of each of the three winners in each category. All projects must be received between December 1 and January 31 through the website of the contest.
Ten finalists in each area, will be selected five of them will be elected through our social networks Facebook and Twitter by popular vote, and the other remaining five will be chosen by members of the three academic departments of UTAD. 10 projects by an academic Committee to select the winner of each category will be assessed.
Each of the three winners will be presented with a scholarship that will cover the costs of academic study the degree that students choose the current formative offer of UTAD. Also, teachers who act as guardians of the winning students will also receive a gift for her important work in the contest by UTAD.
Animation and Visual design: design a character
The participants in this area must design the character of Alice from the movie ‘Alice in Wonderland ‘s’, but away, as much as possible, existing creations, including a description of his personality, and presented in three different versions:
- Cartoon to feature animation film
- Manga style for Japanese-style animated series
- Realistic for use in a video game
Of each version of the character, students must submit a pose to color and other two sheets with poses or expressions. This will provide them an example of character development.
The jury will take into account not only the technical drawing but, above all, the originality and the ability to transmit the personality through the poses drawn.
Video games: create a (Game Design Document, DRM) video game design document
UTAD provides the opportunity to all lovers of video games becoming in the Designer and creator of the game of your dreams. The student must create a script that adapting a videogame idea. UTAD will distribute an index, a “master document”, so that the students complete it according to some questions and directions.
The jury have the game logic and sense, that it is well armed and who mostly want to play it. It will need a complete conceptual design in which each element has a reason for their presence.
Engineering: design of an app for mobile
The project raised in this category consists in develop an app using the free platform “App Inventor” (www.appinventor.org) created by the Massachusetts Institute of technology to develop applications for Android in a simple and intuitive way.
In addition to the application itself, the project must explain clearly the following facets of the app:
- The briefing of the original idea
- The objective of the app
- The design employed, as well as the interface
The originality of the idea, the user experience and the level of achievement of the features of the phone are the aspects of the application that, in addition to its own staging, will be valued more in the project.
