Hello World!

Here we go!

Well, to put it simply, this will be my "Hello World" post. My name is James Burton, and I'm a video game artist. In my short experience I have mainly specialised in Environment art, however, I have always had a very technical approach to it since this is where my interest has mainly lied in the past few years.

I feel extremely proud to be able to say that I am working as an Environment/Tech Artist at White Paper Games on our debut title Ether. So far it has been an amazing experience. In fact I feel privileged to be able to work around the talents of Ben, Pete, Oj and NJ. I will be working on this game as I go through my MA and can only hope that the copious amounts I'm learning just by working on this game with the people around me will aid and add to the quality of my MA course as much as possible (however related or unrelated this MA might be!).

I really don't know what I hope to make out of this MA apart from expanding my knowledge in general game art, as well as developing my skills as a technical artist with the help of my tutor: Josh Taylor. But I guess not knowing where this MA will take me is a good thing; having an open minded approach to any new project has always been something I have held in high regard and for something as important to me as this, it certainly makes me wonder what I can achieve and will be able to achieve once I go through this journey. The uncertainty is scary, but it's damn exciting!

So I will leave it here for now, I've never been good with introductions, but I guess that there is not much introduction to be made when my career has only just started! I will update this blog as often as possible and hopefully review my progress in an honest way... my only hope is that whoever is reading this finds it as interesting and exciting as I know I will!