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Employer: ARA Journeys | Reference Art Direction: Supplied by cultural partner from third party designer
Tools: Photoshop, Procreate, Illustrator, Miro, Unity, Shadergraph, Mapbox Studio, Lightship, C#, Sourcetree
Release Date: October 2022
Categories: UI, Illustration, Brand, Tech Art
This project needed to appeal to a primary school aged audience and house AR & audio story content geolocated at selected schools and cultural sites.
With a tight production schedule, I completed over 20 illustrations, designed and implemented a full UI reskin, and created an AR portal experience within 6 weeks.
The supplied reference art direction was geared to an adult audience - created a tailored version to appeal to kids that still felt cohesive with the exhibition.
Designed & implemented the UI (including coding a few of the UI flows).
Created a custom Mapbox style to achieve a hand drawn, kid friendly aesthetic.
Illustrated the collectable crafting materials to be fun to look at and colourblind-friendly on both light & dark backgrounds.
Built custom shader for UI graphic overlays in Shadergraph, then edited the generated code to make it compatible with Unity 2021. Any illustration that appears in multiple aspect ratios/graphic treatments is generated from a square sprite via the material.
Using some clever strategy to repurpose & recolour assets for efficiency while under a tight timeframe, created an additional 15 story illustrations in approximately two weeks.