Jamie Durrant

Current

Freelance at The Strange Case Company

Past

Senior Graphic Designer at Lionhead Studios
Senior Online Designer at Lionhead Studios
Lenticular Display Design at 3D/4D Holographics

Modelmaker at Design Etc
Assistant Special FX Make-Up at Geoff Portass (Self-employed)
Sculptor / Designer at Treasure World
Trainee Computer Graphics Artist at The Travelling Matte Company

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Education

Norwich School of Art and Design
Thorpe St Andrew Comprehensive

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Arts and Crafts

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Jamie Durrant’s Summary

Most recently been working on the Fable 2 GUI, from design, functionality to implementation. Previous to that I worked on the design of the websites, the Fable 1 particle effects, scripting and providing help to any part of the company that needed an help with design.

Jamie Durrant’s Specialties:

Sculpture, web design, 3d modelling, photoshop, illustrator, Anark, sharepoint, infopath, community, special effects, macromedia flash, sculptor, mold making, animatronics.

Jamie Durrant’s Experience

Freelance

The Strange Case Company

(Arts and Crafts industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)

collector - designer - inventor
Senior Graphic Designer

Lionhead Studios

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

December 2006 — April 2009 (2 years 5 months)

I was responsible for the design and production of all of the Lionhead group of websites. This included the main Lionhead site, the Fablegame.com site, the Movies Online and any teaser pages that were created. Also responsible for scenario and level scripting in Black & White, particle effects design in Fable and implementing an internal forms process with Sharepoint and Infopath. I helped produce and implement the Fable 2 Front end, HUD and GUI (Graphical User Interface) with layout, graphics and technical design. Working within Microsoft’s TCRs and with a mind to localisation requirements. Producing layouts, concepts and mock-ups.
Senior Online Designer

Lionhead Studios

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Games industry)

February 1998 — December 2006 (8 years 11 months)
Lenticular Display Design

3D/4D Holographics

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

1997 — 1998 (1 year )

Created lenticular displays using 3D modelling software clients including DERA (Defence Evaluation and Research Agency) and Gordon's Gin.
Modelmaker

Design Etc

(Design industry)

1996 — 1997 (1 year )

Created props and small scale set design for the full range of Hasbro toy products.
Assistant Special FX Make-Up
Geoff Portass (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

March 1996 — July 1996 (5 months)

Assisted Geoff Portass with the application and removal of prosthetic foam pieces for a BBC production, "Dr Terror's Vault of Horror" and an ITV series "Scratchy & Co".
Sculptor / Designer

Treasure World

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)

1991 — 1996 (5 years )

Designed and created large scale dioramas with computer controlled silicon skinned animatronic displays. Created the mechanics, sculpted and molded the silicon skins and choreographed the show. In addition, constructed an aztec themed restaurant with stone carvings and mass produced moldings.
Trainee Computer Graphics Artist

The Travelling Matte Company

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Broadcast Media industry)

July 1988 — December 1988 (6 months)

Worked on computer graphics system for the 2nd series of ITV's "Knightmare". Also created and demonstrated computer graphics capabilites for Virgin Video.