Seasons Football manager
(Factori Studio 2022)

Visual development work for the title Seasons - Football Manager, finding the look and feel, and characters and world. Working as part of a small team to help find the right feel for a football game about all the drama that happens off the pitch.

Very early style explorations for as of then untitled football game, playing with a more playful and softer rendering style.

Early stage key art, establishing the world and likely character types and tone.

Established character style.

Character line ups

Character line ups

Stages of character exploration for Team Captain character

Development for club owner

Stages of character exploration for Reporter

In game backdrops

Stadium elements and upgrades

2D Generated player development and implementation.

UI was largely grey boxed from scratch then our own unique assets were combined with a UI pack to get a consistent style with our time constraints.

Roughs and mock ups

Day to day work on a project such as this was hugely orientated around UI and functionality, so art directing this game constantly visualization and discussion with the team. It's all internal work, so pretty rough, but quick to produce.

Collaborating with an external UX advisor on making the layouts and visuals meet in the middle. Figma & Photoshop

A huge part of this project was just visualizing how features may work ahead of implementation or team discussion. Example here being a tutorial/quest objective bar to guide players through the games intial features.

Rough work outs of how 'low budget' cut scenes may be employed, trying to work out any additional assets required, player inputs and general treatments.

Example of the types of gif created to demonstrate envisioned behaviours a concept or approach to building game features, in this case cut scene logic.

Matthew Beakes

2D & Concept Art - Character Design - Illustration

Seasons Football manager
(Factori Studio 2022)

Roughs and mock ups

Matthew Beakes

2D & Concept Art - Character Design - Illustration

Seasons Football manager (Factori Studio 2022)

Roughs and mock ups

Seasons Football manager
(Factori Studio 2022)