Melanie Shee

Animations by Gateshead College Level 1 Games Design Students

In March 2021 I approached a contact at Gateshead College (https://www.gateshead.ac.uk/) about developing a potential live brief for students to create animations representing Charles Bonnet Syndrome.

After a chat with Andrew Dochery, Curriculum Leader of the Level 1 Games Development course, he agreed to fit in into the curriculum linking it to an specific learning outcome using Unity software. I briefed the students in a remote session in CBS and my experience of CBS as well as sharing some of my images and taking questions.

They went off to carry their own research and develop their initial individual responses. The students then pitched their initial thoughts/ideas to me, and I feed back some brief thoughts/comments and they then created the animations, a number of which are viewed here. Although not final finished products, each animation gives their representation of CBS. You can even spot some of my artwork in the images!