Greetings electronic artists! My name is Nathan Clune and I’m an independent game designer from Washington state. I’m currently attending Worcester Polytechnic Institute as an Interactive Media & Game Design major.
I have some reservations about pursuing the game industry, but I know I want to work in some sort of visual design. I feel strongly about that because the artistic process is something I find creatively fulfilling, and I’ve always been interested in the idea of designing any sort of experience. Even outside of games, I find user experience to be a compelling challenge. Figuring out the best way to make something interesting, intuitive, or otherwise engaging is something I enjoy thinking about.
I also have interest and experience in 2D and 3D animation. My favorite programs would have to be Adobe Animate and Maya, respectively, but I also have experience with most of the Adobe suite. Between drawing, modeling, animation, or video editing, I try to stay as well-rounded as possible. I generally prefer to stick with digital art because more often than not, what I produce is math based. Whenever possible, I would rather type in numbers to tell the computer what I want rather than create something manually. Plus, there’s no ctrl-z on a sheet of paper.
I also have a website to display some of the game projects I have worked on in the past, as well as my general resume. All of the games featured on the website are playable in some form. For each one, the website provides either a download link or the playable game itself! You can find these projects at clunegames.com.
No Body Home is a co-op platformer I worked on with The Sheep’s Meow.
This is a model of Abe from Oddworld. I created him as my final project for 3D Modeling I.
These are preview images from SCRAMBLED and PLAYING WITH FIRE. Each of these games were made for a game jam in only a few days.
This is a mock movie poster based on an old fairy tale by the same name. I created it as part of a Digital Imaging class.
Inventive – I would say your bio is very inventive because of how there are so many abstract ideas. Even when faced with a time crunch, you were able to adapt to the situation and create unique products.
Inventive: Your pieces are very colorful and engaging! they drew me in because of the interesting character shapes and fonts you used. The mock movie poster was eyecatching because it raised my curiosity; I wanted to learn more about the random animals and sausage joining together.
Quirky: Your characters, and game designs are so varied and colorful. There are a lot of different forms and shapes you give life to in order to create a main character.
Quirky – You have so many varied characters that each stand out in their own way. I like the brightness in your art and the games seem super neat!
Gorgeous- Everything here looks really cool, whether its a game or art. I really like the movie poster, when I first scrolled down it caught me off guard and I couldn’t stop laughing!
Funny – the works all look very neat and I like the sense of humor in them. I especially like the hamster poster.
Cute- I love your character designs! Very friendly.
Funny: your work has a lot of humor and personality to it. I especially like the poster!
Inventive- These characters and works you’ve created have a very familiar feel, but they’re completely different if that makes sense. You’ve given them such a fresh style.
Cute – all of your characters are so cute and sweet-looking!
Striking – all of these art pieces show your style of art and how committed you are to them which makes them very strong portfolio pieces.
Colorful – the 2D art is all really bright and eye-catching. Also, the anatomy on the 3D model is really good and believable, and you’re definitely able to achieve a level of blending colors together realistically that I wish I could reach.
Cute – I love the designs you have for your games. They are very energetic and look very fun and comedic. They’re also deceptively simple-looking and minimalistic, giving them a good light-hearted vibe that just naturally makes me want to play them.
Cute – the art for your games is very cute! I love how you kept all of it uniform and unique to your style
I think I may have to go with ‘clever’ since your focus covers practicing in a wide range of abilities.
Cute – Your handyman design really stuck out as cute to me!
Colorful – I absolutely love the colors on your designs they evoke happy feelings :’) I also love the expressiveness I hope to see more of your stuff!!