Kelly Hamilton

Hamilton's style is normally cartoon-like and colorful. However, she has many different styles that she uses to fit certain projects, including many different degrees of realism, color schemes, and portrayals of environments. As an illustrator, animator and concept artist, Hamilton changes her style as appropriate for each project and feel she is going for in a drawing or painting. The most common style she uses is fairly simplistic to match her main comic project (at this time), Roza. While she has been known to work with darker themes, the majority of her work could be considered "child friendly" or reminiscent of the Disney style.(Above, left, a painting by Kelly, right a sketched design by Kelly.)

Projects (by studio)

Octopi/Sony

- Primary Projects: PoxNora
  - What: PoxNora is a [fantasy, turn-based, collectible] MMO strategy game.
  - Created: Various concept art, illustrations, pixel art/sprites and animations. (Concept art and sprites pictured right and below.)
    - Related project creations: Website design and flash banner adds.
- Years worked: September 2005-October 2007
- Other contributions: Lingo, PhraseFrenzy, SudokuJam, Jellypop, Blackjack, Sudoku

Name: Kelly HamiltonNotable creations and work: Samantha Swift (series), Luxor Adventures, PoxNoraBorn: Not listed, 1980 or 1981.Died: Alive!

Biographical Summary

Nothing about Kelly's life prior to college is posted on the internet, however her résumé covers her education and job experience starting with college. Kelly Hamilton received a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Digital Media from the University of Georgia in 2003. In 2004 and 2005 she attended workshops hosted by ConceptArt.org. In 2005 and 2006 she attended Gnomon live workshops in LA. In 2008 she attended a Diverge workshop. In May 2007, Hamilton began the online comic Roza on her own time while working at Octopi. During her time at Octopi she aided in the creation of many small games, with her focus on their MMO PoxNora. After changing jobs in 2007 and moving on to Mumbo Jumbo, in 2008 Hamilton began the comic short "Nymph." Kelly also self published a sketch/art book through Lulu publishing around this time. In May 2009, Hamilton switched jobs once again and began working for Microsoft through FILTER. She continues to update her comic Roza and post sketches, designs, and drawings on her blog.

Work

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Mumbo Jumbo

- Primary Projects: Samantha Swift (1, 2, 3), Luxor Adventures, The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy
  - What: Various games, mostly for PC, and mostly hidden object games.
    - The Samantha Swift games are a series of puzzles similar to eye-spy that follow the travels of archeologist Samantha Swift (pictured below, left).
    - The Luxor Adventures is a hidden object puzzle game, like the Samantha Swift series.
    - The Edgar Allan Poe Conspiracy is also a hidden object puzzle game, but with a mystery spin.
  - Created: Concept art, design mock-ups, character designs, cinematics, logo and packaging concepts.
- Years worked: October 2007-May 2009
- Other contributions: Build-A-Lot DS (pictured below, right), Little Farm, Elf Bowling 7, Luxor: Pharoah's Challenge, Farm Frenzy

FILTER/Microsoft

- Primary Projects: Goo Splat, Checkers, and Shell Game... of the Future!
  - What: A variety of small, simple Zune HD games and applications.
    - Goo Splat, a touch screen destruction game slides goo down the screen of the Zune, where the player "splats" it with their finger.
    - Checkers in digital format for the Zune HD.
    - Shell Game... of the Future! is a shell-guessing game of chance, with objects hidden behind robots in outerspace. (Pictured, left)
  - Created: All art related assets.
- Years worked: May 2009-present
- Also helped to create many non-game apps for the Zune HD.

Unreleased game "Glowfish" concept art:

References

- The Art of Kelly Hamilton: Kelly's portfolio. ("Jungle Studio")
- Fernblossom: Kelly's blog.
- Roza: Kelly's online comic about a young blood-mage.
- Robogabo: Kelly's husband, also a concept artist in the games industry.

All images obtained via Junglestudio.com and Ign.com

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