Game Artist and Developer
Rochester, New York Area
- Current
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- Game Artist at Independent Contractor (Self-employed)
- Founder/CEO/Lead Designer and Developer at Emergent Behavior LLC
- Past
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- Lead Technical Artist at Vicarious Visions/Activision
- Senior Artist at Sony Computer Entertainment America
- Artist at Inland Productions
- Artist at Global Learning Technologies
- Education
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- State University of New York at Oswego
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Ben Throop’s Summary
Ben is a game development generalist with specialization in 3D modeling, texturing, animation, rigging, simulation, and generally making pretty stuff that draws fast. With past lives in the mainstream game industry with Activision and Sony, as well as founding a web startup while coding a Flex app, he's now up to his chin in Unity and iPhone related projects. Read more at
http://variancetheory.com/about/about-ben/
He's booking for game art and development work starting in December 2009.
Ben Throop’s Specialties:
3dsmax, Modeling/Texturing/Animation, Special Effects and Physics Sim, Pipeline development and pre-production, Unity C# and Javascript, Flex AS3 and MXML, Advanced Maxscript, PHP, Wordpress, Drupal, mySQL, XML, AMFPHP
Ben Throop’s Experience
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Game Artist
Independent Contractor (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Design industry)
April 2009 — Present (8 months)
Game Art Generalist for Unity3d/iPhone games.
Providing...
- Low and High Poly Modeling
- Texturing
- Animation/Rigging
- Particle FX and Physics
- Maxscript exporters, pipelines, and utlilities
- External utilities via Flex, PHP, Python
Projects:
- FX Artist for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 for Xbox 360/PS3
- Lead 3D Artist for unannounced iPhone title at Infrared5 (ongoing) -
Founder/CEO/Lead Designer and Developer
Emergent Behavior LLC
(Internet industry)
May 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)
Founder/CEO/Lead Designer and Developer
Created MrsRiley.com, a website that has tools for making picture cards in your web browser. It saves your work online and lets you easily share and collaborate with other users
- App developed with Flex 3
- Site developed with Drupal 6
- Responsible for design, code, branding, management, light bulb changing.
Site Launch in March 2009 -
Lead Technical Artist
Vicarious Visions/Activision
(Public Company; ATVI; Computer Games industry)
June 2004 — May 2007 (3 years )
- Design and implement content pipelines
- Solve difficult technical art issues
- Broad knowledge of console hardware
- Mentor staff
Shipped Titles:
- Spiderman2 PSP
- Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam DS
- Over the Hedge DS
- Batman Begins GBA
- Spiderman3 PS2/PSP/Wii
Canceled Titles:
- Batman Begins PSP
- Ultimate Spiderman 2 PSP
- Call of Duty PSP -
Senior Artist
Sony Computer Entertainment America
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Games industry)
2000 — 2004 (4 years )
Lead Character Artist
Lead FX Artist
Moonlighting Technical Artist
Titles:
- Syphon Filter 3
- Syphon Filter: Omega Strain
- Syphon Filter: Dark Mirror -
Artist
Inland Productions
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)
August 1998 — December 2000 (2 years 5 months)
- Arctic Thunder (Midway - PS2/Xbox)
- Ultimate Hunt Challenge (EA - PC)
- WCW Thunder (THQ - PS1) -
Artist
Global Learning Technologies
(Computer Games industry)
1997 — 1997 (less than a year)
Ben Throop’s Education
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State University of New York at Oswego
BFA , Art/Computer Science , 1992 — 1997
Ben Throop’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
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