Damian Street: Games Art 2024 - 25

Reflective Statement Overall, I had a lot of fun working together with my teammates! It was a great experience combining our ideas and even though we couldn't include everything in our final version, I'm super happy with the end product. I think the thing I found most difficult was coding the game. I struggled a lot when it to finding the solutions to my errors. I wish I gave myself a lot more time to focus on the code! I'm proud that I managed to get the gif Faye animated at the end. I think the main thing I need to is give myself more time for error

These are my portfolios: Arstation:  https://www.artstation.com/jekkalou Indeed:  https://profile.indeed.com/?hl=en_GB&co=GB&from=gnav-homepage Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jekkilu/ Writing an artist statement This is a short piece of writing that introduces you work and practice and wider intellectual concerns. Here are some notes I made as well as my artist statement! Highlight Ideas, Motivations and Process Creation Process: Gather references, ideas using Pinterest + mind maps + studies if necessary Thumbnailing/ Design iterations Clean-up /posed drawing of final thumbnail Colours As an aspiring concept artist, I seek to improve my skills at any given moment and strive to improve my understanding of many techniques and software. Majority of my character concepts explore various high fantasy genres commonly association with the game dungeons and dragons. I have become very familiar with this setting and am excited to do some more work for it. I'm willing to ...

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I unfortunately hadn't been able to keep up with my blog posts so I compiled a list of examples where I have collaborated with my team. These aren't in order. Script Since I had a lot of issues with grammar and punctuation in our game feedback, I went over it and Sam had offered to spell check my coding. I sent it to them in a word document so they could do some corrections. Animation Troubles I had some trouble trying to implement an animation. I had Faye sent me a bunch of different file types until we found one that worked. Pattern's Patient Tree Today, was the last day to finish the project, so I wanted to make I had everything ready. I remembered that Katie had an extension so I asked them if they'd be able to finish their patient story/ script before the deadline. They sent me some screenshots of their patient tree and a pdf to work from. UI Difficulties I had a lot of issues with the games UI and found it difficult to layout the pause screen the way we wanted it ...

Overall, I faced a lot of difficulties when it came to 3D. My main one was time management. I had spent too much time focussing on other projects. This meant that I had less room for error and I found this pretty stressful. Maya kept crashing frequently and encountered a few problems but I luckily managed to resolve most of them. I had fun learning how to sculpt in ZBrush and I found that I preferred it over Maya . I still am not entirely sure how to paint skin weights fully so this is something I definitely should look into and practice more. During the rigging, I found it pretty confusing and I struggled to keep up with Simon's instructions. The videos on the NOW really helped. I have a pretty good understanding of the process in making it as well as what to try to fix it if it breaks. I did manage to finish the rig in the end! I'm happy with the final sculpt as it was my first big attempt at creating a game-ready character. There's a lot of places I can improve on but I ...

Gantt Chart This is the plan I made for 3D over my easter break. I had unfortunately spent too much time focusing on other projects and not enough time on this one. I should've made sure I had more time on this project especially because 3D is one of my weaker areas. Here is the Gantt Chart I made for Toolkit. Gantt Chart Updated/ Revised (10/05/25) I was able to keep up with gantt chart up until week 4. I greatly overestimated how long the sculpting process would take and ended spending the week just on that. Luckily, I had just finished one of my other projects so for the final week I was able to put most of my focus onto this project. In this updated Gantt Chart, I ended up having to move the Retopology and Texturing into the final week.  Here is a link to the Miro Board I've been using to manage my projects so you can see it better https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVIfcpGzE=/?share_link_id=655866724727 Kanban To help me further manage this project, I created a Kanban. I used th...