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Liam Davey

Concept Artist/Graphic Designer

Taunton , United Kingdom

Summary

A stand-out concept designer, recognized for his cutting-edge creativity. Working with freedom or to a tight design brief, has extensive expertise in character, creature, environment and prop design. Throughout the design process – from sketches to a polished design – has developed a reputation for creating unique and visually compelling designs that shape the style and mood on any challenging new projects.

With exceptional creative artistic ability, adds further value through strong organisational skills, solid judgement, and excellent communication skills.

Demonstrates a constant commitment to deliver against key deadlines, backed by a record of delivery against personal and team objectives, recognising the need for commerciality as well as unique creativity.

Highly focussed and productive individually, also thrives on working collaboratively within a team, with the flexibility to respond to changing work priorities.

Core Skills:
 Focussed on delivering against the client brief
 Balancing creativity with commercial reality
 2D, plus 3D based research, development, and finalization of concept designs
 Ability to visualise and interpret other people’s ideas
 Excellent fundamental illustration skills, including composition, perspective, colour theory
and exceptional understanding of human and creature anatomy
 Strong sense of design and development, with a good eye for detail
 Great self-motivation and self-management, with the ability to work within tight deadlines
 Ability to work independently while also exceling in team-based projects
 User interface design for apps, and in-game UI
 Experience using online project management

Skills

Software proficiency

Blender

Illustrator

Photoshop

Unreal Engine

ZBrush

Unity

Adobe XD

Quixel Mixer

Experience

Concept Artist at The Old Realms, Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord MOD
Taunton, United Kingdom
August 2021 - December 2022
This project centred around, adapting the existing video game, Mount and Blade 2, to be set in Games Workshop’s, Warhammer fantasy IP. All in-game models and assets had to be redesigned and reskinned.

The Old Realms release trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgZsSMfW0JI&ab_channel=TheOldRealms

 Responsible for creating new concept designs primarily around characters, costumes and weapons.

This was done in line with art direction and from referencing the original source material

Key Achievements

• Transformed and updated old Games Workshop: Warhammer Fantasy models, while keeping the same shape language of the original designs

• Designed the character and creature concepts to be suitable for the Mount & Blade video game engine while matching the visual style of the game, delivering high client satisfaction

• Produced Character, weapon and asset concept designs for 3D artists to model directly from the designs, thus saving considerable team resources
Senior Artist at Magical Game Studio
Taunton, United Kingdom
November 2017 - December 2020
Magical Game Studio developed an RPG video game, that was a 2d open-world adventure. The style of the game had a painterly look to all the animations.

 Responsible for the concept designs of many characters, creatures and prob designs

Key Achievements

• Developed multiple fully illustrated and unique creature, character and prop designs which have been approved for the final game

• Designs developed used to guide the rest of the art team on a unique and original project

• Completed the redesigns for the main playable character

• Created concept art for a series of action poses for the animators to use as reference

 Responsible for the in-game art, hand painted many of the in-game 2d character animations

Key Achievements

• The large number of frames needed for this required a team of artists to complete. To address this, I developed a system through Discord, of regular updates to clarify which frames the team were working on and to make sure we were using the same values and colours consistently, throughout this collaborative project.
Senior Artist at Magical Game Studio
Taunton, United Kingdom
October 2017 - December 2020
Reference

July 12, 2020

Zachary Lehman

CEO & Design Director,

Magical Game Studio

To whom it may concern,

I am writing in reference to Liam Davey and his job application. I have known Liam for 18 months as his employer. As a Senior Artist, Liam designed character and creature concepts for Magical Game Studio as well as doing work as a colorist on in-game animations. I have found him to be very self-motivated, punctual and extremely good with feedback; he is always looking to develop his skills in design and the fundamentals of artistry.

I have found his conceptual designs throughout working for me, to have been innovative, original and very professionally presented. He submits his design work in a timely manner and is always available to make any iterations that may need to me done.

As part of his role, Liam worked as a colorist on the sprite animations as well as creating us many of the concept designs. In this role, he gave regular updates to clarify which frames all the artists on this task were working on. This made sure they were all using the same values and colors throughout the project to keep the end result consistent. I found him to have great communication skills and work fantastically within a team.

I would recommend Liam Davey as a concept artist as he produces consistent, highly professional and original concept designs. As well as being passionate about developing his skill to become an even better designer and artist.

Yours truly,

Zachary Lehman
Art Creator at Roll20 - Marketplace Creator at Roll20
Freelance , United Kingdom
November 2016 - March 2020
Roll20 is a website consisting of a set of tools for playing tabletop role-playing games, also referred to as a virtual tabletop, which can be used as an aid for playing in person or remotely online.

 Responsible for researching the most popular artworks, the players on Roll20 are purchasing

 From that research I focused my designs to meet the needs of the community

Key Achievements

• Created original artwork for the community players on the Roll20 web site

• Developed expertise in research and analysis within the gaming and role-play gaming community

• Recognised for speed and efficiency in designing multiple characters and creatures within a short time frame

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