I’ve participated in a lot of collaborative projects, including group projects and real clients, detached from my study.
Apartment 101
I designed and drew characters and backgrounds for the game, and developed the main artstyle.
Date: November 2023 – February 2024
Constraints:
Time – ~2.5 months
Location – Campus/Remote
Audience – Course professors (judges), Students within the programme.
Client – School
Programs used – Photoshop (art), Clip Studio Paint (art), GameMaker (Implementing Assets)
Requirements:
-Upstairs Apartment Hallway, Lights on version
-Upstairs Apartment Hallway, Lights off version
-Empty Main Character’s Apartment
-Character Apartment, belonging to 2 side characters
-Abandoned Apartment, blood drips from fridge, dragging marks on the floor.
-Train station spawn location, must have movement instructions
-Local advertisement Poster, also used as game cover
-Side-character designs.
Above are shown character designs and sidescroller backgrounds that were featured in the finished game.
Global Game Jam Groningen 2025
I was a participant in the Global Game Jam Groningen 2025, with my team, Mean Girls Studio
Date: January 24-26 2025
Constraints:
Time – 48 hours
Location – On-site
Instructions – GameJam theme: Bubble, Character designs from fellow teammates
Audience – GameJam judges (specifically in the “Cozy” category), GameJam attendees, ages 18-50.
Client – Global Game Jam Groningen
Programs Used – Krita (art), Unity (merging in assets), Github (merging in assets)
Requirements
– Local advertisement poster
– Vertical scroller map
– Map preview image
– 4 Unique ending screens
– Game title screen logo
– Game title screen backdrop
4 Unique Ending screens, each representing a choosable player character.
Below are featured a map preview for the map selection menu (left), and the title screen background (right)
Below are featured the game’s title screen logo, made in under 20 minutes due to time constraints (left), and the vertical scroller background for the racing section of the game (right).
The vertical scroller had to be chopped up a few times, due to the nature of a vertical scroller image. The original ratio was 1:20
K’arina – CharacterForge
A large character hosting website appoints one community artist to design a character based off a communal moodboard, whenever this type of event is active. This artist was me.
Date: March 1-9th 2025
Constraints:
Time – 1 week (for all images total)
Location – Remote
Instructions – Moodboard of approx. 9 images.
Audience – Characterhub users
Client – Characterhub
Programs used – Characterhub, Clip Studio Paint
Communication – E-mail
Requirements – Clean character reference, Scene pieces, Illustrations of personality and character habits.
the Symphony of the Danse Macabre
I designed characters referenced off real-life actors featured in the Efteling’s trailers. I also designed 2D assets including posters and the artstyle for the final game.
Date: February-June 2024
Constraints:
Project time – ~5 months
Location – Campus/Remote
Instructions – Studying trailers, referencing the real-life building.
Audience – Course Professors (Judges), Students within the programme, visitors of the Efteling theme park.
Client – Efteling (non-official)
Programs Used – Krita, Clip Studio Paint
Requirements:
-Large local advertisement Poster
-2 Main Character Designs
-Artstyle Guide, Concept Art
Above are shown examples of some of my character and style design work on the game. Everything featured is my own.
Appie
I was in charge of designing a mascot for a Theme park in Germany, going through many iterations to fit their vision.
Date: Spring 2022
Constraints:
Time – ~1 month
Location – Remote
Instructions – The theme park is based on a green apple farm, and aimed largely towards children.
Audience – Park visitors
Client – Theme park
Programs Used – Clip Studio Paint
Communication – communication was done through a middle-man, as said middle man had gotten me the job. I communicated with the middle-man through Whatsapp, and he reached the park by e-mail.
Requirement:
A cartoon green Apple farmer mascot, a clean reference and a sticker design.
Above are shown the iterations of ‘Appie’ the mascot, adjusted each time to fit the client’s needs and wishes. The image on the left is his first version, the image on the right is the finished version.