Out of the Woods: Backgrounds, props, character design, and UI for a preschool-level maze puzzle game based on Little Red Riding Hood. Personal project.
Not on the Nametag: Background and prop art for an interactive comic and collaborative intern project at FableVision Studios. Character art by Derek Gieraltowski. Production and audio by Josh Artman. Programming by Antonia Januszewicz.
Select marketing art for Spellbreak (Proletariat, Inc) for storefronts, ad spots, social media, and trailers. Responsible for layout, type, animation, and paintover. Responsible for marketing screenshots in-engine model posing/lighting, capture, and layout; paintover credit shared with Tony Feliciano and Damon Iannuzzelli.
Props for Keenville, a game-based assessment program for the Georgia Department of Education. Character portraits for The Paper Girls Show, an animated series by Global Tinker. Backgrounds, characters, and props for Ataraxia, a Northeastern University animated series.
To view NDA work, email Sam at samxuart@gmail.com, and include "NDA Portfolio Request" in the subject line.
"Sam Xu" can be found in New England drawing pictures, watching horror movies, color-coding spreadsheets of tinned fish, and looking for bugs.Sam graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2019 with a BFA in Illustration and now orbits the creative and education industries, bringing design skills, project management skills, and color-coded spreadsheets to teams of all sizes.Contact: samxuart@gmail.com
