Senior Lecturer

Phoebe Herring joined Falmouth University as a lecturer in BA(Hons) Game Art after freelancing on a variety of projects as a concept artist and promotional illustrator. Her specialty is pre-production artwork and environment design, with a strong interest in combining 3D and 2D art techniques to visualize imagined or historical worlds.

External Links

Contact details

Telephone 01326370832

Qualifications

Qualifications

Year Qualification Awarding body
2015 MA Entrepreneurship Falmouth University
2013 BA(Hons) Digital Animation Falmouth University

Research Interests

Research interests and expertise

Involved with the Digital Creativity research programme, and also collaborating on the Augmented Telegrapher project to develop new interactive AR experiences. Created historical reconstruction artwork for the Penwith Landscape Partnership and the Monumental Improvement project. Expertise in digital painting and artwork experience in the games industry.

Research topics:

  • Digital Art
  • Games and Virtual Worlds
  • Game Mechanics
  • Archaeological Reconstruction

Research Outputs

Publications and research outputs

  • Scott, Michael

    Herring, Phoebe, Greer, Terry, Hickey, Kat, Rothwell, Sandra, Krzywinska, Tanya and Goonhilly Earth Station, (2022), Space on Earth: Assessing the Feasibility of Virtual Reality and Mixed Reality for a Visitor Experience, Audiences of the Future: Design Foundations, (Unpublished)
  • Krzywinska, Tanya

    Scott, Michael, (2020), From Immersion’s Bleeding Edge to the Augmented Telegrapher: A Method for Creating Mixed Reality Games for Museum and Heritage Contexts, In: ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, USA, 13 (4), ISSN: 1556-4673
  • Scott, Michael James

    Krzywinska, Tanya, (2018), Towards an Interaction Blueprint for Mixed Reality Experiences in GLAM Spaces: The Augmented Telegrapher at Porthcurno Museum, In: Proceedings of the 32nd BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference, 2-6 July, 2018, Belfast, NI, pp. 1-5
  • Herring, Phoebe

    (2024), Penwith Landscape Partnership Archaeological Reconstructions, https://www.penwithlandscape.org.uk/trails-and-ancient-sites/ancient-sites-historical-reconstructions/

Research Students

Number of research students supervised to completion

0

Number of research degree examinations

0

Teaching

Areas of teaching

  • Concept Art
  • Realtime Environment and Prop Art

Courses taught

  • Game Art BA(Hons)
  • Game Development BA(Hons)

Policy engagement within Cornwall

Engagement with organisations which contribute to the development of educational, cultural or socio-economic policies in Cornwall

Collaborated as a commissioned artist with Penwith Landscape Partnership to visualise historic sites across the region.

Collaborated as a commissioned artist with Monumental Improvement project to help conserve historic sites, producing reconstruction artwork and publicity for the newly opened Tresibbett and Goodaver sites.

Professional Engagement

Independent professional practice

Concept artist on a number of releases for Dota 2:
Nemestice, Dawnbreaker, Aghanim's Labyrinth 2, Crownfall, Kez
Card artist on the Cad Bane deck for Star Wars: Villainous and cover artist for the Target exclusive sleeve for the game's Scum and Villainy expansion
Concept and promotional artist on other as yet unreleased large games, and on various smaller indie projects.

Social, community and cultural engagement

Exhibition and public talk in November 2024 of the reconstruction artwork comissioned for the Tresibbett and Goodaver archaeological sites as they open to the public. Exhibited historical reconstructions online as part of the West Penwith Partnership's outputs.

 

Engagement with professional associations and societies

Presented a talk on historical reconstruction artwork to the Cornish Archeological Society in October 2023.