Riley Hanlin

Riley Hanlin
Advanced Diploma of Professional Game Development (Game Art and Animation)

Riley made the beautiful Medieval world of Kassel in five weeks, and then made the city of Olden and its river in just another week!  She is a fantastic artist to work with, hard working, willing, with many ideas and the ability to follow through.  Her assets are rich and well thought out and what's more, they're accurately made, named and filed.

Riley made her world so it could be photographed from any angle, which is lucky, because I bet she didn't think we'd take a shot from underneath a bush!

SLIDESHOW:  The castle of Kassel began as a diorama, then became a blue graybox by Kathy, then a green graybox by Kathy, and finally Riley got hold of it and turned it into a castle in one day!

Kathy thinks maybe hers is better.

Look, we nearly had a brown path!

We had to decide how big the mud pit had to be, so Francis would be too far away for Henry to pull him out.  Here is Riley jumping in to test it.

There are 158 different lighting settings in Frog's Princess.  See how well the well looks at different times of day.

Oh, the things an artist has to do.  Kathy specifically asked for horse droppings by the stable and would not change no matter how much Riley begged, so Riley suffered stomach convulsions while researching the model.

With such a limited list of art assets, Riley questioned why Kathy wanted chrysalids.

In the story, Ramona touches a chrysalis, and says, "We understand so little of the magic of transformation. Do you know a caterpillar absorbs itself? All the parts mingle, and re-join, and form a butterfly out of the mix.  When it comes out, how does it know it has wings? How tragic if it went through life with wings, never knowing..."

Kathy asked for a number of bells for Francis to ring, but Riley explained they didn't fit in the shot, so Riley won that round.

Scott had the idea to put the shadow of the fish at the bottom of the well.  Kathy said it couldn't be done, but...  Riley did it.

Here is Riley (first part of the video) talking about what it was like to work on Frog's Princess.

Riley shows her artwork at https://www.artstation.com/rilgs