Welcome

Hello and welcome to the personal portfolio site of Martin Hastings, full time graphic artist, web designer, game graphics artist and co-founder of Broadening Horizons and Horizon Studios as well as numerous side projects and the name behind the success of a number of smaller companies along the way.

This is a relatively new portfolio site which to be totally honest has been long overdue but is now something I am enjoying populating as time go by.

For years I’ve concentrated on both my client’s work as well as working on and populating the above linked websites but I finally decided that it was about time I made use of my own “domain” name to make a personal portfolio site of work that crosses over between my two company sites, as well as other items that have never made it to either Broadening Horizons or Horizon Studios, but which I feel should see the light of day in some shape or form.

So as time goes on you should start to see various examples of my work from various game projects, websites, DVDs, promotions, conceptual art and the occasional doodle (I haven’t doodled for years and I’m having a great time doing it now) so feel free to bookmark this site and pop in regularly to see what’s new.

Eventually I’ll get round to changing the footer too!

So what is with the footer you may ask? Yes, the top portion of the site is a random selection of some of my artwork and as I create something I’m especially proud of I like to create a new background using it, but why does the footer depict bland cola boxes and a few pallets?

Well, it’s part of a game project that I’m working on and was going to form an animated footer, once I got round to finishing it off.

So what happened?

Well, Horizon Studios decided that the cute alien creatures that were the main characters in the game needed a bit of history, an explanation as to how they came to be on Earth in the first place, so we put that game on hold to create a prequel to the game we were working on, and so the footer of this site changed from being the animated advert / footer it was intended to be and instead just became a strange conversation piece. I’ll tweak it one day. Either that or replace it fully, we’ll see….

Watch this space!