Art
I have separated my portfolio broadly into 3 styles: 'craft-based' art, 'pixel' art, and 'digital' art.
Claymation & Craft-Based Art
I enjoy a fairly free-form approach to the direction of my work, and often allow the physical properties of the materials I am using to guide me. I use traditional materials such as clay, paper, card, fabric etc., but also love to incorporate or take inspiration from anything I have lying around the house or natural materials that I find in my surroundings. I place equal importance on the craft and the digitisation of this style of art, and experiment with methods of getting something physical onto the screen. Primarily I use either a scanner, or a light box/tripod setup, depending on the object, although I have also used regular and green-screen video for specific works. For animating, I use stop-frame animation either by hand-adjusting the object or using a photography turntable for 360 animations.
Pixel Art
I find that the limitations of pixel art make for fascinating artistic choices, and I love to experiment with contrast, colour palettes, outlines and perspective in this style. I have worked in orthographic, perspective and top-down/side-on perspectives and have created backgrounds and landscapes as well as individual game assets and objects. In my portfolio I have included a time-lapsed video of one of my landscapes in order to show my process. Generally I will work from a rough sketch and gradually refine and flesh out the details. I really enjoy this refinement process in pixel art, and how much difference the placement of individual pixels can make to the overall image.
Digital Art
I have included a separate category for 'digital art', which generally includes art drawn using a graphics tablet, and textures created for 3D digital models. My style in this category tends to be fairly chunky and colourful with cartoon-like shading, and I particularly enjoy landscapes and strange creatures. I also have a lot of experience incorporating art into Unity projects, as well as creating and editing shaders and materials.
Below is a range of artwork in these categories from personal projects and freelance work over the last 15 years.
Claymation & Craft-Based Art
Pixel Art
Digital Art
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