FORMER University of Brighton students have taken home top gongs at a prestigious glitzy awards bash.

The graduates are celebrating success in this year’s Primetime Emmy awards at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles.

Broadcast media graduate Basia Lalik works on the multi-Emmy award winning series Game of Thrones.

And an Emmy for 'Outstanding Motion Design' was won by a team of former illustration students from the university for their work on the TV series ‘How We Got To Now with Steven Johnson’.

Basia, a former a Broadcast Media graduate, has worked on some of the world’s best TV programmes – political comedy VEEP, Emmy Winner for Best Comedy, and Games of Thrones, which broke the record with 12 Emmys, including Best Drama.

She said: “I'm absolutely thrilled.

“I'm extremely proud to be part of both super-talented and hard-working teams. I believe they are the best shows on TV and the success is fully deserved. I have worked as a Post Production Coordinator for VEEP for the last couple of years.

“I joined the editorial department of Game of Thrones in July and they have all made me feel very welcome. I'm thankful for the opportunity and excited to be working with the top industry professionals.

“The Broadcast Media course helped me gain knowledge and necessary skills for my first running job in Envy Post Production in Soho which I started the day after the end of term. During my time in Hastings I was made aware of numerous roles within the industry which I would not have previously considered. Being taught and supported by industry professionals gave me a great understanding of the media industry and confidence to pursue my goal.”

The illustrators’ Peepshow Collective company created the animated graphic sequences for the six part series How We Got To Now by American science author Steven Johnson. The show aired on PBS in the USA and on BBC2.

Everyone at Peepshow with the exception of Jenny Bowers graduated from the BA(Hons) Illustration at the University of Brighton. Miles Donovan, Chrissie Macdonald, Pete Mellor, Andrew Rae, Lucy Vigrass and Spencer Wilson were all the same year (1998) with Luke Best the following year (1999).

Miles said: “I think I speak for everyone when I say we had a brilliant experience at Brighton.

"There was incredible support from our tutors and head of course (at the time) Margaret Huber,who runs the MA Sequential Design/Illustration course now."

“We enjoyed the freedom to experiment and explore different departments at the university – printmaking, animation, photography, and bookbinding. We all learnt how to problem solve visually on those early illustration assignments at Brighton.