Francis Varley: Games Art 2024-25

Character design fundamentals are concepts of design that transfer across projects and are used in a variety of applications: the creation of cohesion between designs and sticking to a specific theme and setting transcend individual projects and - like perspective or shape theory - can be utilised in a variety of ways. There are several aspects of character design that I have practised recently, working alongside others to create a character that fits into a wider group. This task tested character design principles: we were given a handful of roles that we were to design characters around, choosing one and basing our character around the principles of said role.  In this exercise, I was tasked with designing a character who would be the "Brains" of the group. As a group, we then discussed potential styles, themes and settings that our characters could be based around. We collectively decided to follow a science-fiction theme, basing our characters around the subgenre and styl...

About Me- I'm a second year student studying Games Art at Nottingham Trent university practicing digital art, traditional methods and 3D Modelling.  I chose to study Games Art due to finding a large amount of interest and enjoyment in the subject matter, and have a storng interest in improving my abilities as such. I often worldbuild, write and draw and find that these interest merge well with the process of creating material for a brief. I enjoy designing and the elements of research that surround it, especially when material designed is intrinsically fantastical in nature and requires research and justification. In my free time I often work on role-playing games: writing or drawing to facilitate the worldbuilding, lore and mechanics of such game systems and then sharing what I have created with my online gaming group. This is what the majority of my free time is spent working towards, and in the future I may seek to publish more of this work. I have self-published several zines f...