Original published Video Game "Out of Your Mind"
Illustration creation, story writing, project supervision and making and planning of promotional content for an original Videogame.
Video Game Out of Your Mind
Original video game project made in collaboration with 32 bita d.o.o, published by Udžbenik.hr on video game publishing site Steam. Worked on the original art, story, gameplay mechanics and promotional material over the course of May 2023. - November 2024.
Out of Your Mind Trailer
Game's Main Concept - "Visuals"
A "Visual" is an entity representing your thoughts and emotional state. Starting from a base state, its design evolves into different states based on the experienced emotion.
Gameplay Screenshot
Game's relase Promotional Graphic
Winter Sale Promotion Graphic
Protagonist Concept Art
Antagonist Concept Art
In-Game Scenery Illustration
GRFt - Business gift packaging
Work made for the "Design of a chosen Graphic Product" course at Faculty of Graphic Arts. Business gift made for Faculty of Graphic Arts Professors. Print made with the assistance of Kaligraf d.o.o and design created throughout Masters year 2024./25.
GRFt Packaging Design Mockup
Mockup of my design made using Spline.
GRFt Logo Design Concept
Product sketches and planning
Digital color Concept
Digital functionality Concept
GRFt packaging Dieline
Packaging in all 3 versions and their Dielines constructed in Adobe Illustrator, ready for print.
Packaging post-print model a)
Packaging post-print model b)
Illustrations
Commissioned work and illustrations based on personal projects, concepts, environments and original characters.
Illustration for a Magazine "Break to Be"
Illustration depicting the necessity to break oneself; to experience hardship in order to improve as a person.
Comic Cover "Warrior of Flesh"
Cover for an original comic. Featuring one of the supporting characters' pose in a worm's eye view.
Illustration "Blossomed"
3 Character Commission Work
Client Commission featuring 2 people surviving against an Original Character located in a certain Horror Video game.
Original Character Illustration
Old Town Dubovac Environmental Illustration
Interpretation of the idea that there's still an undiscovered series of tunnels located under Old Town Dubovac in Karlovac.
Illustration "Time is Dripping Away"
Modern take based on a Croatian legend of Labatorci - beings that kidnap children - now instead use up their time, turning them into adults and robbing them of their childhood.
Environmental Illustration "Carnal Village"
Conceptual Illustration "Nita's File"
Character design showcased in a stylized Doctor's File. Features the character's in-universe abilities.
Character Commission work
Character + Graphic Commission Work
Character Commission work
Conceptual Illustration "Friar Drziha vs Illia Gus"
Illustration featuring a playable character "Illia Gus" and Boss character "Friar Drziha" from the original board game "Nationull Revival".
Environmental Illustration "Flesh Workshop"
Comic Cover "Warm yet Cold: Bit off more than he could chew"
Cover for an original comic used as Faculty of Graphic Arts' Bachelor's Degree final thesis work.
Packaging Redesign
Work made for "Realisation of Concept Solutions" course at Faculty of Graphic Arts. Redesign of Podravka Soup Base Packaging with the target Audience: Comic artists and Comic enjoyers. Process made throughout Masters year 2023./24.
Comic Works
Original comics published in magazines and comics self-published on comic sharing websites.
"Još Samo"/ "Just Have To" - for OHOHOzine#7
Short B&W comic based on a person's endless striving for physical body improvement. Published in print in "OHOHOzine#7" and featured during OHOHO Festival 2025.
"Zauzeto"/"Taken" - for Morina Kutija #10
Short colored comic based on a bathroom-related horror scene. Published in the online magazine "Morina Kutija #10" 2025.
Warrior of Flesh
Original comic following an Original Character "Clay" on his way to become a so-called Warrior of Flesh and protect his home, Carnal Village from the anatomically augmented humanity. Self-published on online platforms: Webtoon, Tapas, MangaPlusCreators, GlobalComix and NamiComi. Working monthly since 2025 (ongoing, 10+ chapters so far)
Rebus illustrations
Rebus illustrations made through SFINGA ART d.o.o for the weekly quiz Magazine "Kviskoteka". Illustrations made based on prompts given by the Magazine's writers that when combined and solved complete a specific sentence. Drawing for the Magazine since 2023.
Conventions
MUZZA 3rd Week of Science - Video Game "Anatomicrew: Braincredible Adventure"
Videogame is about a little brain named John the Brain, who's mission is to fight off mental and nervous problems within a sickly brain. Showcased during MUZZA 3rd Week of Science, Zagreb 2024 (12.-14.4.2024.)
Published on Itch.io
Art, game design and programming: Borna Knežević @belmonty_arts
Art, level design: Noa Nježić @niezziq_draws
MUZZA 4th Week of Science - Video Game "Refuse and Reuse"
Malicious forms of pollution invade the world in this 2D top-down RPG co-op Adventure. The heroes of this story? Leaders of their habitats, Goran the Deer, Ornelia the Orca, Pya the Scorpion, Arnold the Rafflesia, and their weaponry crafted from trash materials. Fighting trash WITH trash! Showcased during
MUZZA 4th Week of Science, Zagreb 2025 (10-14.4.2025.) representing the Faculty of Graphic Arts.
Developer: 32 bita
Publisher: Udžbenik.hr
Art, game design and programming: Borna Knežević @belmonty_arts
Art, level design: Noa Nježić @niezziq_draws
Original soundtrack: Jere Rinčić @yerr.music
SFERAKON 2023 - Board Game "Nationull Revival"
Original tabletop game showcased at SFERAKON 2023 made for Faculty of Graphic Arts Zagreb's professional practice. Set in an action adventure where players try to escape a bizarre croatian-victorian world where they find themselves after traveling by a train at a speed slower than standing in place.
Mentor: Veljko Kukulj
Art, game design, print: Borna Knežević
Game design, writing, print: Josip Mikolić
Art, game design: Noa Nježić
Book for children "Izvan Kontrole"/"Out of Control"
Children's Book based on a boy named Liam who spends way too much of his time playing video games. One day, the video game characters come to life and begin to use his joystick to control the boy, wrecking havoc on his home. Story written by Martina Gadanac, Published by Despot Infinitus.
Art Exhibitions
Zagreb Design Week 2023
Comic work made for Zagreb Design Week 2023 representing Faculty of Graphic Arts Zagreb based on a personal project titled "Out of your mind". The project also shows a discrepancy between an author's work (upper comic) and a work made using Artificial Intelligence (lower comic)
3. Revija Mladih Umjetnika 2025
Artwork titled "No Burden to Carry" was a part of "3. Revija Mladih Umjetnika - Reuma" Art Exhibition in Slavonski Brod, Croatia from 23. to 27.9.2025.
The artwork presents the "Careless One" a Being that can carry no Burden, as their back is torn to shreds and rendering them unable to.
