Mára aurë!

Well my names Luis Harrison I moved from a town called Nuneaton that’s just twenty minutes drive from Leicester. I now reside in a house that’s roughly 5 or so minutes from DMU and I live with two friends from my college course.

When I was deciding upon which course I wanted to apply to, I looked for two main qualities; firstly, I wanted a course that was very heavy in development of traditional art skills, secondly, I wanted to learn how to use 3DS Max as required for the games industry (I had only learnt the basics from my college course). Not only did De Monforts Game Art Design course satisfy both, but it offered a great deal more, the tutors haven’t just taken a course in their area and jumped straight into teaching, they all have years of experience working in their field and that experience is an invaluable tool to their students. Now by this point the course was sold but to top everything off we get guest lectures from people working in the industry and established companies assign us projects and crit them themselves. By now I could not wait for September to come around, providing I got offered a place that is.

Oh and of course I love art in all its forms as strange as some can seem and I love to play computer games, so what better for me to study than Game Art Design!

Ambitions, Ambitions… Although there are companies that I love and admire, I don’t think that I would want to work for them. The reason being that because I love their games if I was to work on their titles I wouldn’t be able to enjoy them the same as I would previously. So my point being I would like to work for a company that I’m not necessarily unfamiliar with but can establish my name with a new title that I can become associated with. Essentially I would rather not ruin my favourite games by working them to death, and leave it to the people that have made them so awesome in the past.

Outside of the world of games and art, I delve in the world of Middle-Earth; I am a huge Tolkien fan! His style is so unique, using simple vocabulary though applying it in an intellectual manner he communicates his visions of Middle-earth so vivid; his imagery is unrivalled. Tolkien, even during World War II, still continued to expand upon his fantasy world, writing most of The Lord of the Rings whilst serving in the war. I know of no other author that had such passion for his work, that even during a world war he found the time to put pen to paper to create what is now a masterpiece world renown and also the second most sold novel ever written!

‘How, given little over half a century, did one man become the creative equivalent of a people?’

Mára mesta.