Ben Throop

Founder, Emergent Behavior LLC

Rochester, New York Area

Current
  • Game Artist at Independent Contractor (Self-employed)
  • Founder/CEO/Lead Designer and Developer at Emergent Behavior LLC
Past
  • Artist at Global Learning Technologies
Education
  • State University of New York at Oswego
Connections
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Industry
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Ben Throop’s Summary

Ben got on the startup wagon in 2007 and created Mrs. Riley (http://mrsriley.com), which brings cutting edge Web 2.0 ideas to the often underserved special-education field. It helps people build visual learning materials with a Flex application that runs in their browser.

Prior to launching Emergent Behavior, Ben was a nine year industry veteran of Sony and Activision studios, specializing in technical art, pipeline production, and getting the most out of hardware, engines, and the people that make them.

In the future, Ben is interested in combining his past and present by building independent games.

Ben Throop’s Specialties:

Game
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Modeling/Texturing/Animation
Special Effects
Pipeline development and pre-production
Advanced Maxscript
10 Years 3dsmax experience
Technical Problem Solving

Web
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UI Design
Actionscript 3/Flex Programming
Drupal 6
PHP 5
mySQL 5
XML


Ben Throop’s Experience

  • Game Artist

    Independent Contractor (Self-employed)

    (Self-Employed; Design industry)

    April 2009Present (4 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

  • Founder/CEO/Lead Designer and Developer

    Emergent Behavior LLC

    (Internet industry)

    May 2007Present (2 years 3 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.

    Launched Public Beta 1/5/2009

  • Lead Technical Artist

    Vicarious Visions/Activision

    (Public Company; ATVI; Computer Games industry)

    June 2004May 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)

    20002004 (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 1998December 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)

    19971997 (less than a year)


Ben Throop’s Education

  • State University of New York at Oswego

    BFA , Art/Computer Science , 19921997


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