Hello!I go by Kinou and I'm a graduate from George Mason University with a BFA in Computer Game Design.
I am a game artist specializing in 2D and 3D art, with a focus on character design and animation.
I am also experienced with creating assets for UI, VFX, and Commercial Prints.For Illustrations and 2D animations I use Aseprite, Clip Studio Paint, and the Adobe Creative Suite.As for 3D Modeling and Animations I use Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3DS MAX, and Blender. For 3D Textures I am proficient with Substance Painter, Photoshop, or Clip Studio Paint.For Video Editing I use Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or Blender.My passion lies in crafting visually engaging characters and animations that bring games to life.
I have a fondness for retro game aesthetics such as pixel graphics and low poly models and textures and love to work on projects with that art direction.

Character Designs

Character Design for Minokawa, I character I made for use in my 2D animation projects.

Jules' Character Design was based off an old sprite I made inspired by Air Gear. I used this for my 3D animation projects.

Concept Art

Icons

Mock-ups

3D Textures

Textures were made in Photoshop.

Table Prop - Model by Professor Gregory Grimsby

Corgi Mage Character Texture
Model Credits
Mage Hat - Maria Panfilova | Corgi Head - Lance Wilkinson | Body - Professor Gregory Grimsby

Low Poly Buildings

This series of low poly buildings were made for GMU Drift, a class-wide game design studio project to make a multiplayer racing game based on the George Mason University Campus.
Models made in Autodesk 3DS Max, Textures in Photoshop.

Frame-by-frame Animations

2D animations were made in Clip Studio Paint @ 24 FPS in 2s.

Walking animation for a character design project for Minokawa.

Animated logo for Fullflavor.

Fullflavor Intro

The opening animation for Fullflavor.

Idle and Walk animations for Fullflavor of the Main Character Fomo and her family.

Experimental 3D Animation

The following clips are animations made for a 3D experimental animation class.
Made in Autodesk Maya, I was experimenting with recreating low poly models with stylized characters. Models and design are by me.

Jules
C-Turtle

Pixel Graphic Animations

I consider Twilight Over Thanalan my best work. This was a personal project I used to explore creating animated scenes using my FFXIV character.
The images show the different stages of progression the piece went through. Illustrations made with Clip Studio Paint and Animation in Graphics Gale.

A tribute to Hayao Miyazaki, this piece depicts a scene from the Ghibli Movie Princess Mononoke. Made with Aseprite.

Game Pixel Graphics

Shiba player character and Slime enemy made for a 2D platformer project.

The following animations are from my internship with Three Beat Games and their Indie game Synthetria where I worked as a 2D Pixel Artist and Animator.

Battle Sprite for Snowpile Demon

Battle Sprite for Norman

Battle Sprite for Hatzof

Various Bullets and VFX

Battle and Overworld sprites for one of the playable characters in Synthetria

Personal Art Projects and Commissions

This series of portraits and illustrations were made for various Tabletop RPGs.
The last two were drawn as parodies in the style of Tite Kubo, the creator of Bleach, and Hirohiko Araki, the creator of JoJo's Bizzare Adventure.

These two illustrations were made for my own personal use on social media,
with the first image being a self portrait, and the second image being of the Pokémon Vaporeon.
The goal and feature of the Vaporeon image was for it to fit neatly within sites that had circular profile pictures, such as Discord and Twitter.

If you would like to contact me,
please feel free to use my email in the link below.
[email protected]

Thank you for your time!

Kinou