2021 Senior Exhibition Artists

Allison Dawes

Art + Design: Animation + Game Arts

About Allison Dawes

Allison Dawes was raised in North Attleboro, MA and will be receiving her BFA in Animation and Game Art from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She started college in engineering, but soon after decided to pursue her lifelong love of art for her final three years. Growing up she has been heavily inspired by animated films and video games and her many family members who are also artists.

Statement

At the start of my capstone project, I had designed and developed a murder mystery board game in which one player was the murderer and the other players were trying to determine who they were. During that period of development, I started to really think about what kind of career I wanted for myself and what I was the most passionate about within Animation and Game Art. The answer was 3D modeling. Not wanting to abandon the project I had been working on, I adapted parts of it into my new capstone idea.

With my original idea being a board game, I 3D modeled six-character pieces from my original character ideas. Each one is specifically designed to reflect the type of person that one would be playing as. For example, the caduceus is a doctor, and the phone represents a teenager. I also 3D modeled a mansion, which was to be the main location for the game. This was the largest and most challenging piece, but it was also the most fun to create. The time I spent working on my capstone really confirmed my personal interests in 3D modeling and I’m super pleased with the result.