Martina Archetti

Hi, I’m Martina. I'm an illustrator and game concept artist with three years of experience, specializing in character design.I studied Game Concept Art for three years at Event Horizon School in Italy, where I currently live.After my studies, I worked with various individuals and companies. Some of my most formative experiences include:
- Having worked as a general 2d artist for (www.KaraGameDesign.com), a game design blog.
- Working as an illustrator for an up-and-coming musician (Gren_mp).
- Working as a Character artist and 2D animator for a company that produces Visual Novel (Luminous Threads)My goal as an artist is to create meaningful projects through my art. That’s why I’m always seeking out companies whose mission is to create meaningful experiences, so I can help them achieve their goals.In the meantime, I’m certainly not going to sit on my hands. I’m always busy creating new and exciting projects of my own, as well as continually learning new techniques to best express my ideals.

• Kara Game Design (Blog)

Roles: Concept Artist, Illustrator, Graphic Designer, Web Artist, 2D Animator

Period: April 2021 - Current

Software used: Photoshop, Illustrator, Affinity Publisher, Toon Boom Harmony, Bird Font, Notion, Webflow, Spine

Things Made:
- Collaborated with a designer to create the site layout
- Established the site's art style using an art bible
- Created most of the illustrations for the site, newsletter, and social media
- Designed logos for the site, newsletter, and individual team members
- Developed a custom KARA font using Birdfont
- Created various animations with Toon Boom and Spine
- Designed the layout of their ebook using Affinity Publisher

• Gren_mp (Musician)

Role: Illustrator

Period: Jan 2022 - July 2022

Software used: Photoshop, Illustrator

Things made:
- Created 3 illustrations for his music album covers
- Made some concepts for the merchandise and finalized two of them

• Project Nomad's Dream (Unannounced Game)

Role: Concept Artist, Illustrator

Period: Sep 2023 - Nov 2023

Software used: Photoshop

Things made:
- Developed the art style for the project
- Designed multiple concepts for the game's main characters
- Created illustrations for menus, in-game loading screens, and key art for marketing
- Produced mood renders to support the designer in crafting visually compelling boss fights

• BitQuirky (Luminous Threads Game)

Role: Character Concept Artist, Illustrator, 2D Animator (Spine)

Period: Jan 2024 - Aug 2024

Software used: Photoshop, Spine

Things made:
- Developed the art style for the project
- Designed multiple character concepts
- Created idle animations in Spine for all in-game characters
- Designed the user interface (UI) for the game
- Produced illustrations and comic sequences for the project
- Created storyboards and mood renders to ensure team alignment on ideas

• LumeDev (Pixel Art Game)

Role: Pixel Artist

Period: Jan 2024 - Current

Software used: Photoshop, Aseprite

Things made:
-Created different mockups for the game view
- Created 3 character portraits + 7 different emotions
- Created The UI elements for the game

In Fiore?

Golden Ember

Gli Amanti

Design 1

Design 2

Juno Onishi

Kade Onishi

Tao Akira

Rayne Meiro

Michael Beyers

Tea Spirits (Sowing)(Harvest)(Combine)

In this project, I tried my hand at making 3 tea spirits. I wanted to use them as a study element to improve and establish my ideal render type, learning modeling and animating in 2D and 3D.
So, starting with the idea that I will learn about them well, it will be easier to leap into the subjects I don't know so that I can focus more fully on practicing and learning.

Software used: Photoshop

Process:
- Created character designs based on studies related to a theme (in this case, tea)
- After considering the characters, I chose a color palette for each one that complimented the others.
- Created a more in-depth study of characters through turnarounds and the study of different props
- I did several render tests until I arrived at the ideal and optimale one for me

Andrea

Andrea is a character I created for an animated short. He needed an optimal design that could be easily reproduced in both 2D and 3D styles.

Software used: Photoshop

Process:
- Created different sketches based on narrative constraints and limitations at the artistic level
- Made several studies related to the mask Andrea wears being an important and significant element
- Made several color palette studies to find the ideal match
- Created a render suited to our artistic needs, where we had set ourselves a cartoon style in shapes but with a semi-realistic render

Neel & Narelle

Neel and Narelle are two characters I had to create for an outreach project. Since my task would be to quickly create a large volume of illustrations, I needed to create a simple but very recognizable design, so these two characters were born.

Software used: Photoshop

Process:
- Made several studies regarding the best style and design for the characters
- Created dummies that would be used by other artists to create other characters following the same style and shapes (Two other characters, Lynn and Kai, were in fact subsequently created.)
- Decided the color palette of the characters
- Initially for simplicity our characters did not have a render (they only had a flat color), but then over time we opted to give them a little more three-dimensionality with some cell shading render
- I created simplified character versions for social media mascots to develop even faster illustrations (for social purposes).

Sad Memories

Sleepy Bath - Sunset -

Sleepy Bath - Night -

Ampreh's DTIYS

Lost in Space

Inky Dagger

In Fiore?

Gli Amanti

Cute Commision

• The Temple (Animated Short)

Roles: Character Concept Artist, Storyboard Artist

Period: Nov 2022 - Current

Software used: Photoshop

Things made:
- Created the design of Andrea
- Created the storyboard
- Created the animatic of the storyboard

• I Shine in Silver (Illustrated book)

Roles: Writer, Storyboard Artist, Concept Artist, Illustrator

Period: April 2022 - October 2022 / June 2024 - Current

Software used: Photoshop, Unreal Engine

Things made:
- Wrote the story
- Made some studies for the art style
- Created the design of the main characters and enemies
- Made 3 Illustrations for understand the different moods of the 3 principal areas of the story

Next steps:
- Create the storyboard
- Clean up the lineart
- Color and render the illustrations

• The Sinking Theater (Game)

Roles: Concept Artist

Period: Gen 2019 - Gen 2020

Software used: Photoshop

Things made:
- Created the main character design
- Created the design of 3 enemies
- Created the logo of the game