For the 2018 challenge, students were asked to create a character to an industry brief, presented in a set of emotive poses. Unlike previous years, everyone was given creative control of the concept, theme, style & story of their artwork, allowing more freedom of expression. As a result, we’ve ended up with an amazing range of submissions for 2018.

The projects include the bestial oddities of Leslie Stowe‘s Lizardman Shamen and the Gigantoraptor from Chloe McCann, alongside realistic depictions with Shannon Symonds‘ Peacock Knight and Walter the Town Guard by Georgia Jeffries, plus wonderfully stylised characters with Emily Davison‘s 60s Boy Scout to the Borderlands-inspired Ash by Kial Oliver-Gibson.

As with the other categories, this years work has been of a very high standard and we hugely appreciate the work of our assessment team in creating a shortlist for the finals!

In total, 26 students submitted environment art projects across a range of themes and styles, with 18 in the Search For A Star tier and 8 in Sumo Digital Rising Star.

Character Art 2018 Project Directory

Search For A Star

Final year & post-graduate students

Sumo Digital Rising Star

Undergraduate students in first or second year

Search For A Star

Georgia Adamson

University of Hertfordshire

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Daniel Bristow

Southampton Solent University

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Toby Christmas

Goldsmiths

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James Colley

University of Huddersfield

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Dayna Davison

University of Huddersfield

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Emily Davison

Futureworks

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Joshua Dawson

Southampton Solent University

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Alina Fedaseyenka

University of Hertfordshire

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Arkaitz García Rodríguez

Teesside University

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Xavier Gibbons

Leeds Beckett University

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Liwen Huang

University of Northampton

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Georgia Jeffries

University of Hertfordshire

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Alusine Anthony Kargbo

University of Hertfordshire

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Shihab Miah

University of Gloucestershire

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David Pacsuta

Sheffield Hallam University

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Xanthe Sinclair

Ravensbourne

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Shannon Symonds

Southampton Solent University

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Marleen Vijgen

University of Hertfordshire

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Sumo Digital Rising Star

Adam Dann

Sheffield Hallam University

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Michael Dixon

University of Derby

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Chloe McCann

University of Huddersfield

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Madalina Naniu

NHTV Breda University of Applied Science

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Caleb O’Brien

Sheffield Hallam University

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Kial Oliver-Gibson

University of Huddersfield

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Leslie Stowe

Brunel University

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Kieren Townley-Moss

University of Derby

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