Ben Samara

Game Designer and Developer
Software Engineer

Portfolio

School Projects

The purpose of this page is to show breadth of knowledge and aptitude, as well as demonstrating familiarity with several aspects of the game design and development pipeline, including a variety of digital tools.

Sketches

These sketches were done for my classes, Drawing the Human Form and Introduction to Drawing.

Check out my blog for more details about the process by clicking the button below.

Video Animation

This is a video project I created for my Motion Graphics Final. It was made in Adobe After Effects.

It summarize the first few scenes of The Legend Of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time, up until Link first leaves the Kokiri forest and begins his journey.

Drawings were originally done in pencil, directly referencing scenes from both the game itself and from the manga by Akira Himekawa. Then, they were hand traced and updated in Photoshop and GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). The text is also directly from the game.

Please note that there is no sound.

A playable video is included below. Check out my blog for more details about the process by clicking the button below.

3D Modeling

Here is a 3D enviornment I built in Blender. All of these textures were built within Blender. There is also a fog effect present.

This was my first semester Game Design course assignment to make a weapon. I made this in Blender.

This is an assignment I had in which I made a 3D scene of a port/harbor. I've included a screen capture of Maya with perspectives.

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Other Projects

Here are a few other projects I completed during school.

Included here will be:
3D Platformer Level (Made in Unity)
Script for Cinematics
Character Design
Storyboard for Cinematics
Vector Graphics (Inkscape/Adobe Illustrator)
Raster Graphics (Photoshop/GIMP)

Check out my blog for more details about the processes behind these projects by clicking the button below.

Unity Platformer Level

This is a video of a platformer I made in Unity.


Character Design

Here is a character design of a creature called Vael I made for my first semester. It's a 2-3 page summary with some sketches. If the pdf viewer below isn't supported, you may click the button below it to open the pdf.



Cinematics Script

I had an assignment to write part of a cinematic in screenplay format. I included the original below (2:49 -6:19). If the pdf viewer below isn't supported, you may click the button below it to open the pdf.



Cinematics Storyboard

This assignment was to make a storyboard of any cinematic I chose. I included the original below.

Vector Graphics

Here are two different vector graphics images I made with Adobe Illustrator and Inkscape.

Raster Graphics

Here are some images I made with Adobe Photoshop and GIMP.

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