Portfolio of Game Art - Samara (Sam) Kelly

Portfolio of Game Art - Samara (Sam) Kelly - 2023/2022

A collection of game design and development  works I've created over the last year, including works in progress and some skill development projects!

Starting with some mock-up work for a top-down, ghibliesque roguelite game. This was an exercise in exclusively visual development, using a combination of Blender, Photoshop and After Effects.

This is some progress on a simple card game I began development on with Hannah Ewart (https://www.therookies.co/u/HannahEwart )

I majorly worked on assets such as the cards, 3D models and combining and compositing our assets in unity to create the game! I also did some basic coding in C#, but we mainly focused on the visual aspects at this point in our process.

Here's a collection of 2D assets I created for this project, either for UI or placed in the 3D environment as a 2D plane (i.e. the cards).

And here is some work I did for the 3D Assets and putting it all together in unity:

These pieces are just some general skill development exercises that played a major role in the creation of Ewart and I's card game so far:

Starting with some pixel art character design done in Photoshop:

And exploring how to texture (and create texturable objects!) in blender:

Another project I'm currently working on as a skill development project, is creating character designs and environments in unity for a 2.5D fighting game!

Some general progress shots from the process so far:

And then some general skill development work I've been doing, such as prop design and environment design: