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Hi! I’m Grayson, and I’m currently a graduate from UWTSD’s Foundation Art and Design course. Over the last year I have taken on multiple educational courses in my free time while working toward my degree - including creative engineering, coding and game design, and extra-curricular art classes.
I’m excited to take my first steps into the Games Industry and to flourish as an individual while learning and developing skills with more experienced professionals! I make it my personal goal to constantly learn and improve in all aspects of my life. Through consistently striving for this day to day, I’ve learned to self-motivate, always work to my best standard, and pick up new skills very quickly.
My main passion when it comes to games is the characters and stories - creating experiences for people that they will cherish for the rest of their lives. I am looking for an entry level job in the games industry in an artistic position - as a concept artist, character and prop designer, storyboard artist, or similar - that will allow me to invest and develop in this area of game creation and create wonderful and memorable experiences.

Technical Skills

Familiar Programs

Proficiencies

  • Adobe Suite

  • Clip Studio Paint

  • Wacom Tablet Range 

  • Filmora Pro

  • Unity

  • Autodesk Suite

  • ZBrush

  • Blender

  • Microsoft Office Suite

  • Visual Studio IDE

  • Draftsmanship

  • Visual Design and Communication

  • Illustrative and Concept Artwork

  • 2D Animation

  • C# Coding

  • Sprite Creation

Qualifications

Foundation Art, UWTSD — CertHE 

September 2020 - June 2021

  • Passed with First Honours Equivalent

Sixth Form, Ysgol Dyffryn Aman — A Levels

September 2018 - June 2020

  • Art & Design A level (A)

  • Design & Technology (Product Design) A level (C) 

  • Extended Project AS Level (Equivalent) (A) 
     

Sep-2018 - Sep-2019 

  • Psychology AS level (D)

Work + Experience

HAFAN CYMRU — Graphic Designer (Volunteer)

June 2019 - August 2019

  • Working with a team to instruct and create an effective website and graphics. 

  • Writing and correcting copy for websites and leaflets. 

  • Creating artwork and design layouts for posters, business cards and other marketing materials. 

  • Formatting and editing documents in InDesign.
     

FREELANCE — Illustrator

2018 - Current

  • Self-Managed and Motivated.

  • Creating varied and high-quality images to the specifications of various clients.

  • Very fast work turnaround.

  • Full Five Star rating on all commission sites.
     

WITHOUT BORDERS EXHIBITION, ELYSIUM GALLERY - Participating Artist

Current

  • My illustrative artwork ‘Aquaria’ is being displayed as part of Elysium Gallery’s Without Borders exhibition from June 17th 2021 going forward.

Maes y Gwendraeth - Art & Science Technician

Current

  • Efficient execution of smaller tasks

  • Working to support higher level staff

  • Flexible and adaptable to different tasks and situations.

Hobbies and Interests

Drawing, Writing, Coding and Animating 

I can’t remember a time in my life when I wasn’t desperate for a challenge to work towards defeating, or a project to design and play with. I’ve never been very good at doing nothing, and for that reason, all my hobbies are things I can improve exponentially at. I love to learn, so in my free time I write - either alone or as part of a group, practice drawing skills, educate myself in how to code, and sketch out animations.
I’ve also been taking some independent math, science and engineering courses in the last few months.

Gaming

If gaming wasn’t in this section, I probably wouldn’t be applying in the first place! I adore the experience of playing a game, whether it’s the first time or the hundredth, and I have a rather eclectic taste in genres and titles. I especially enjoy games with deep lore and well-written story and characters, as well as various horror titles. I’ve always wanted to create experiences for people that mirror my favourite memories of playing games as a child and young adult.

Collecting Dolls, Figurines and Plush Toys 

Perhaps as an extension of my interest in the experience of play and creativity, I’ve always had a bit of a habit of collecting toys. I use them for artistic inspiration a lot of the time, but they also help me stay in the mindset of creating and voicing characters. I’d really like to design a line of toys to compliment a game someday, since I always loved buying collectable figurines of characters from my favourite games as a kid.

Cosplay and Theatre (Costuming, Make-up, Music, Acting)

Despite my school’s aversion to running a decent drama club, I’m definitely a theatre kid. I love every aspect of the performing arts - from dressing up for Comic Con to learning scripts and songs until I say them in my sleep.  I equally adore films, but there’s something special to me about the interactivity of theatre. I also really enjoy the ability to do some costume design when it comes to creating cosplays.

- REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST -

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