About the Artist.

Matthew Nolan is an aspiring Game Artist who has recently graduated from the University of Teesside with a First Class BA (Hons) Computer Games Art degree. Having won Animex’s highly prestigious 2008 ‘Game Art’ Award, Teeside’s Vis award in 'best environment and set design' AND coming second in Codeworks GameHorizon’s renowned Game Academy 2007, Matthew has expert knowledge in 3D, Games and Design. He is now attempting to enter the Games industry.

Programs and Skills the Artist is Proficient in.
-Autodesks 3Ds Max; procedural texturing, normal-map generation, relief and parallax mapping, fx-shader creation, Particle flow generation, and character creation.
-Photoshop CS; extensive texture creation, illustration and design.
-Zbrush 2; normal map and offset mapping for characters.
-Combustion; particle post production

Bigger images of artists work. (warning; large file sizes)
-Splash Damage's 'Watercooler' Art test; Page1, Page2, Page3
-Jagex's Art test the 'Guard' and 'Bench'; Page1, Page2, Page3
-Posters; Lemon Drop and Cardinal (Soon to be on sale)
-Desert Landscape (as seen in EDGE magazine:176) (also won Animex's 2008 'Game Art' Award AND Tessides Vis Awards for 'best environment and set design');  1-1a, 2-2a, 3-3a, 4-4a, 5-5a, 6-6a, 7-7a, 8-8a, 9-9a, 10-10a, 11-11a, 12-12a, 13-13a, 14-14a, 15-15a
-Desert Landscape Instances; 1, 2, 3, 4
-‘Hands On’ Game design (Awarded second place in CodeWorks Game horizon Compition)
-HoopLa Book Art and work
-Blizzard 2006 3D Art entry; Main entry, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
-Borro’ 2100 environment; 1, 2, 3, 4
-Town texturing exercise; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
-Art Comic Children’s Illustration; 1, 2, 3, 4,
-Art Pirate Bondage Island; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
-Other Art and works; 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,

Social Sites.
---My Flickr (photos both professional and casual) ---My Old Website

Contact.
E-mail; reallife2010 (at) hotmail.com (if you wish to see more of my work please e-mail me.)
Phone; 0 (0044) 7952808448