STUDENT SHOWCASE
Artwork by Lighting Mentee: Anastasiia Miakinina
Our mentees have created some stellar projects during their time with SkillTree.
Take a look at a sample of some of their work below!
Project: Old Memories
Mentee: William Mata
Project: Emperors Corridor
Mentee: Ian Smith
Project: Siege of Rome
Mentee: David Szieber
Project: Ancient Temple of Dense Forest
Mentee: Pablo Gimenez
Project: Memories of Glory
Mentee: Angelo Panciotto
Project: NIA’s Alchemy Castle
Mentee: Manuel Glez
Project: The Forgotten Egyptian Temple
Mentee: Aniket Aggarwal
Project: Ancient Temple
Mentee: Frederieke Wagner
Project: Little Hotel
Mentee: Asa Jin
Project: Doors of Durin
Mentee: Sahir Irfan
Project: The Room
Mentee: Ziyi Wang
Project: Entombed
Mentee: James Parker-Rees
Project: Sacrifice
Mentee: Roger Homedes
Project: Abandoned Mansion
Mentee: Anastasiia Miakinina
Project: When Only Memories Remain
Mentee: Anna Stopina
Project: A Brooklyn Street
Mentee: Michalina Gasienica-Laskowy
Our mentees work at great studios.
“It’s incredible how much you can learn during one mentorship! This helped me not only get better at my artistic and technical skills, but also at a range of other important aspects, such as accountability and time management.”
— Anna Stopina, Environment Art Mentee
Read Through Some Articles From Our Mentees
“Most of my previous projects were assets, so this time I wanted to create an environment that tells a story.
I wanted to create something that relates to my heritage and culture. I was obsessed with 20th-century Chinese interior style. The so-called "tube-shaped apartment" constructed in that era, influenced by the communist Soviet Union, had a very uniform and specific aesthetic.
It might be that nostalgic element, something that provoked a memory from our youth. As Chinese born in the 1990s, many of us might have lived in one of these places during our childhood, or from a distant memory, we might visit or pass by one of these buildings that our grandparents or someone in our families had lived in.”
— Ziyi Wang, Environment Art Mentee
“This project is the result of the mentorship I had with Jobye-Kyle Karmaker over the month of February. I initially started hunting for a concept in early January, but it was a bit hard as I really wanted to be done with the project as the mentorship ends, which meant that I only had a month to make something as high-quality as possible while learning new concepts, and this narrowed down the options quite a lot. In the end, I didn’t have a set concept that I worked off of, but the piece that heavily inspired me was “The Grand Bath” from Vincent Dérozier. I really liked how he introduced destruction to the scene as it felt very organic and also having a circular space really helps with cutting time on asset creation, which meant that I could focus on details more. ”
— David Szieber, Environment Art Mentee