Angela Nguyen
Illustrator, animator, and designer
Self-taught artist based in Seattle, Washington
Graphic Design / October 2024
Introduction Graphic
Graphics made for the UW Splatoon Club and the 'Husky Splatsville Knights' competitive esports team. Posted on the club's social media pages.
Graphic Design, Animation / Nov 2023
Signature Text Logo
Animated text logo featuring a handwritten signature and smaller illustrated shapes. Features glowing effects and bold outlines similar to a neon sign.
Graphic Design, Animation / Dec 2024
Winter Text Logo
Animated text logo of Party Wheel, an online e-sports tournament held in winter. The event hosted 37 teams and over 150 players.The diamond shapes represent the ends of a snowflake, while the entrance animation portrays an effect of shining a light through ice or glass.
Digital Illustration, Animation / Aug 2023
Halftone Chibi Animation
An animated illustration. It features 'chibi' styled characters with saturated colors and bold lines.The shading consists of a combination of cell-shading and halftones, or 'dot-shading.'
Digital Illustration, Animation / Aug 2022
Background Chibi Animation
A series of three animated illustrations. It features 'chibi' styled characters with saturated colors, cell-shading, and bold lines.The backgrounds are lineless and feature more painted elements to allow the characters to stand out.
Digital Illustration, Animation / 2025
SeaBattle Mascot Animation
Animated illustration commissioned by the organizers of the SeaBattle e-sports tournament.The event was hosted at the University of Washington, in the HUB esports arena and pool hall.
Illustration / May 2023
Character Design
Reference sheet detailing a personal character. Designed with the intent of being easy to draw for other artists.Details are limited to provide visual interest while keeping the design relatively simple. Main and accent colors roughly follow a 60-30-10 distribution.
Digital Illustration / 2024
Acrylic Charm Production
Illustrations printed on 2" acrylic charms, featuring semi-transparent gradient acrylic and front-side glitter epoxy. Charms printed by company Vograce.Originally illustrated in RGB, then converted to CMYK and manually filtered to preserve saturation.
UW Splatoon Club
Graphics made for the UW Splatoon Club and the 'Husky Splatsville Knights' competitive esports team. Involved original game assets edited to match the UW color palette. Posted on the club's social media pages.
In-game Assets
Assets from Nintendo game Splatoon. Custom gradient maps featuring the signature purple and gold colors were used to convert the in-game banners and badges to the UW palette, and were then manually color filtered.
Signature Logo
Animated text logo featuring a handwritten signature and smaller illustrated shapes. Features glowing effects and bold outlines similar to a neon sign.
Party Wheel: On Ice
Animated text logo of Party Wheel, an online e-sports tournament held in winter. The tournament ran on January 4th, hosting 37 teams and over 150 players.
Basic Concepts
Animated text logo of Party Wheel, an online e-sports tournament held in winter. The tournament ran on January 4th, hosting 37 teams and over 150 players.
Background Chibis
A series of three animated illustrations. It features 'chibi' styled characters with saturated colors, cell-shading, and bold lines. The backgrounds are lineless and feature painted elements to help the characters to stand out.
Acrylic Charm Production
Illustrations printed on 2" acrylic charms, featuring semi-transparent gradient acrylic, front-side glitter epoxy, and star charm clasps. Charms printed by company Vograce.
Progress Images
Initial sketches. Project was intended to be for large acrylic standees, with semitransparent acrylic for the drink. Adapted into individual acrylic charms upon recipient's requests.
Initial lineart and coloring. As this personal project was worked on sporadically over a long period of time, the art style had later changed with the artwork eventually being redrawn entirely.
Final lineart and coloring. While the previous iteration was colored in CMYK, the final iteration was colored in RGB using saturated colors, halftones, and a pop art style.Hair highlights are stylized, featuring white shapes and sparkles with saturated outlines. The lines feature gradients to catch ridges of different features.
Final mockup sent to manufacturer Vograce. Horizontal marking lines specify height restrictions. Artwork was adjusted for taller designs, ensuring charm sizes were relatively equal to each other.Hole is specified at the center of the charm rather than the tallest point of the artwork. Accounts for center of gravity and ensures the artwork remains upright when charm is held up.
SeaBattle Mascot Animation
Animated illustration commissioned by the organizers of the SeaBattle esports events.
The event was hosted at the University of Washington, in the HUB esports arena and pool hall.
Drafts and Progress Images
Art Usage
Note: Only the colored animation and static artwork image were provided in the final deliverable.
Clients performed line extraction and used artwork for other applications.
SeaBattle! Trailer edited by Pepé (@pepe.sunsetsurge.ink)
Animation featured in the ending screen
Livestream of the event hosted on Twitch
Animation featured in the 'be right back' screen, interface, and screen transitions