Hi! My name is Ryan Waters and I’m a senior IMGD major concentrating in visual arts. I’m from Newton, MA, just outside Boston.
Most of the art I currently make is for my MQP and my job. I currently work at a bio-med startup creating surgical animations in Maya, in addition to taking photos and some graphic design work. For my MQP, I’m helping create a Dungeons and Dragons campaign setting book, working as an artist and graphic designer. In the future, I hope to work in the games or TV industry as an animator or artistic lead. I feel best when creating a vibe and working within limitations
I started working in digital art in highschool, where I took classes and worked in a print shop that ran out of the school. There, I was introduced to the Adobe suite, where I did and continue to do most of my work. I do most of my personal work in Photoshop, Animate ProCreate, and Maya. I really enjoy drawing stupid stuff; it’s where I feel most inspired to create. I love making people laugh and I like to create works that do that.
I have barely any experience making games – I mostly focus on animation and digital design. I have taken all of the animation courses I can and my capstone project was in Cinematic Production with Professor Gutierrez. I’ve taken lots of 3D classes and game design classes, but never really moved into an engine (coding scares me). I’ve done a little work in Unreal and Unity for classes, but I’ve never gone too deep or worked in them on my own time.
I find a lot of media inspiring, and love consuming as much media as I can. I usually find the things I’ve consumed recently most inspiring, which right now are Junji Ito’s works and Gravity Falls. Outside of that, I pull a lot from Scavenger’s Reign, Dishonored 2, Fallout, Bioshock, and cutesy indie games. I’m a big fan of survival-horror, cozy, and narrative-driven games, as well as anything animated that I can get my hands on.
I’m really looking forward to this class and diving into Unreal!
quirky- I really like the expressions you gave these characters
Striking: I find it striking how you can really draw people into your art despite some being more simple, especially through your use of color, lines, and general character design
Thought-provoking – All your art is very visually interesting like monkey overwatch smoking a cig
Striking: I really like how bold and simplistic your style is, especially with the use of such vibrant colors.
dark – the tone of the photos and some of the sketch pieces feel kind of haunting and lonely. great communication of feeling in the pieces.
Quirky: That little guy in the first image… I love him. There’s a lot of fun things going on in all of your works, in fact!
Quirky, I like the bear with the hair.
Surreal – a lot of your work here has this quality about it that feels like it is in a liminal space of some sort. Very cool even if it wasn’t your intention.
Thought-Provoking – you have a wide variety of styles between all of your different works that is very interesting to look at,
Cute: I like that first character you’ve got, interesting things going on with the play between asymmetry and symmetry. But even with a deadpan face, cute character.