Claire Hummel
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Artist |
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May 2018 – October 2023[1] |
Claire Hummel is an artist who worked at Valve.
Biography[edit]
Hummel attended Rhode Island School of Design where she obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2008. From 2007 to 2008, she provided concept art and print advertisements for Asheron's Call and The Lord of the Rings Online at Turbine, Inc. In 2012, she provided character concepts and visual development for BioShock Infinite at Irrational Games. In 2013, she taught character design as Adjunct Professor at DigiPen Institute of Technology. From 2012 to 2014, she provided production design and visual development work at Microsoft Studios. From 2014 to 2016, she provided production design for the VR game Westworld Awakening at HBO Digital Products. From 2016 to 2018, she was art director for In the Valley of Gods at Campo Santo. Following the acquisition of Campo Santo by Valve in April 2018, she joined the team in May 2018,[1] followed by Campo Santo coworker Olly Moss in August. There she contributed to Half-Life: Alyx.[2] She uses the nickname "Shoomlah" on her various social network accounts.
Work[edit]
For Half-Life: Alyx, Hummel created sketches for the game's promotional art, the Dog sketches found at Alyx's Hideout and designed Gary's mural found at the Vortigaunt Hideout. She also contributed to the human graphic design dating from before the Combine invasion such as the billboards seen in the City 17 Metro, various murals, safety posters, labels on food and drink props, brands and companies, and the keycards found at Terminal Gardens.[3]
She also created Half-Life: Alyx-themed stickers to be used in Steam chat,[4] the Half-Life-related stickers to apply on weapons in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive,[5][6] and the artwork for the Steam 20th Anniversary.[7]
Selected gameography[edit]
- Half-Life: Alyx (2020)
Gallery[edit]
Gary's mural[edit]
Texture of the various elements of Gary's mural.
Ditto.
Unedited elements.
Concept art for the entire mural, with Alyx in front of Gordon's drawing, saying "Hello my future boyfriend".
Ditto, detail of Alyx.
Final version, part 1.
Part 2.
Part 3.
Part 4.
Billboards, posters, and murals[edit]
National Art Gallery exhibit ad.
Variant with frame.
Original art with the years missing from the dates.
Source artwork, also by Hummel.
Museum of Natural History exhibit ad. Reuses an existing photo of the skull of the T. rex of the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore, USA.[8]
Original art with the years missing from the dates.
L'orchid ad with frame.
Original art.
Klyuchevsky beer poster.
Original art.
Vologda butter mural.
Original art.
Safety poster.
Original art.
Safety poster.
Original art.
Safety poster displayed at the door of the basement filled with explosives in the Drainage Tunnels.
Characters only.
[edit]
Dog sketches.
Ditto.
Final version.
Ditto, in-game.
Unused Dog sketches.
Coffee box model.
High-res render.
High-res texture sheet.
Grunge soda can. Its orange background actually reuses the grunge background from the Half-Life cover art.
High-res render.
High-res texture sheet.
Lemonade soda can.
High-res render.
High-res texture sheet.
Rkaciteli wine bottle.
High-res label texture.
Kurdzhips wine bottle.
High-res label texture.
High-res render of the previous bottles of wine, closeup on the labels.
High-res render of the Terminal Gardens keycards, with the yellow card originally green and the blue card originally brown.
Detail of the process applied to the stock photo used for the yellow keycard.
Default keycard.
Yellow keycard.
Blue keycard.
Concept art and promotional artwork[edit]
Character studies for what Alyx would look like 5 years prior to Half-Life 2.
Another study for Alyx, with her hood up and down.
Concept sketch for the primary cover artwork of Alyx. Olly Moss's sketch was chosen instead, with the final version by Chris Welch.
Concept art for promotional artwork by Chris Welch.
Final version by Welch.
Artwork promoting the game's announcement in November 2019, with Gordon and Alyx's kiss under the mistletoe spoiled by a Barnacle.
"Meeting doodles" that were eventually used for the Headcrab stickers and Gordon and Alyx's mistletoe art.
Stickers[edit]
Steam chat[edit]
Alyx.
Russell.
The G-Man.
"Headcrab Can't Get Up".
"Headcrab Sleeping".
"Headcrab Surprised".
"Headcrab Sweat Drop".
"Headcrab Wobble".
"Vort Brain Injury".
"Vort Love".
"Vort Surprise".
"Thumbs Up".
"Thumbs Down".
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive[edit]
"Greetings".
"Last Vance".
"Combine Helmet".
"Gnome Mercy".
"Big Hugs".
"Vortigaunt the Painter", inspired by Bob Ross.
Steam 20th Anniversary[edit]
Artwork of Gordon Freeman parodying The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
Artwork of Metrocops parodying the World of Warcraft parody of the Tunak Tunak Tun music video.
Artwork of a Headcrab parodying Keyboard Cat.
Artwork of Cave Johnson and Caroline parodying the "Distracted Boyfriend" meme.
Artwork of Chell and Wheatley parodying the "This Is So Sad Alexa Play Despacito" meme.
Artwork of the G-Man parodying the "Grant Gustin Next To Oliver Queen's Grave" meme.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
Claire Hummel on LinkedIn
- ↑
Claire Hummel on Twitter
- ↑ Claire Hummel on ArtStation
- ↑ Hummel's HLA stickers on Tumblr
- ↑ Hummel's CS:GO stickers on Tumblr
- ↑ CS2 on Twitter
- ↑ Hummel's Steam 20th Anniversary artwork on Tumblr
- ↑ Dinosaur skull artifact on Unsplash
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Claire Hummel on Twitter
Claire Hummel on Instagram- Claire Hummel on Tumblr
- Claire Hummel on ArtStation
