Kevin Richardson

Current

• Senior Producer at MTV Networks
• Senior Producer at Viacom: Nickelodeon Kids and Family Games Group
• Strategic and Creative at Richardson Entertainment

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Past

• Contributing Writer at Casual Connect Magazine
• Producer at iwin, inc
• Family Feud Online Party (multiplayer) - Producer at www.iwin.com

• Family Feud I - Producer at www.iwin.com
• Family Feud Hollywood - Producer at www.iwin.com
• Family Feud II - Producer at www.iwin.com
• Hexalot - Producer for iwin at www.iwin.com
• Boggle - Producer at www.iwin.com
• Trivial Pursuit Bring On The 90's - Producer at www.iwin.com
• Trivial Pursuit Silver Screen Edition - Producer at www.iwin.com
• Wordy Vu - Producer at www.iwin.com
• RISK - Producer at www.iwin.com
• WORDSCAPE Online Party - Producer at www.iwin.com
• Associate Professor - CG and animation projects at Cogswell Polytechnical College
• TumbleBees ToGo - Associate Producer at Electronic Arts - Pogo
• Executive Producer at The Learning Company
• Executive Producer at The Learning Company/Mattel Interactive
• CEO - Executive Producer at Living Colours, Munich (Sole Proprietorship)
• Localization Producer - at Living Colours
• Co-Animation Director at MS Film, Munich
• Willow - Special Effects Animator at Industrial Light and Magic
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Rotoscope at Industrial Light and Magic
• The Brave Little Toaster - Layout Artist at Hyperion/Kushner-Locke
• The Pound Puppies - overseas layout director at Hanna Barbera - Wang Films
• The Flintstone Kids - Layout at Hanna Barbera - Wang Films
• Assistant animator at Colossal Pictures
• Assistant animator: The Nose Runs Wild at Duck Soup
• The Plague Dogs - Colorist at Mill Valley Animation - Nepenthe Productions
• The Empire Strikes Back at Mill Valley Animation - Industrial Light and Magic

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Education

• University of California, Santa Cruz
• California Institute of the Arts
• Cogswell Polytechnical College

• College of Marin

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Entertainment

Websites

• My blog
• Family Feud Online Party
• The Brave Little Toaster

Kevin Richardson’s Summary

Family entertainment specialist

• Interactive: Produced over a dozen casual games while at iwin.com & pogo.com

• Animation, character and story development (features, TV and commercials) – ILM, H&B, MS Films, Estudio Moro Madrid, TVC London, Hyperion, Living Colours, Colossal Pictures ...Commercials: Procter and Gamble, Ferrerro Chocolates, etc..

• EP’d Multiple Parent’s Choice Award winners at Mattel Interactive/The Learning Company

• Guest speaker: Austin Game Conf./panelist. Session leader at CGA Amsterdam

• Contributing writer: Casual Connect Magazine

• Multiplayer: Producer of the subscription multiplayer Family Feud Online Party

• Associate Professor Senior Projects: modeling and animation program at Cogswell Polytechnical (using Maya, Xsi...)

Education:

CalArts - Motion Picture School/Character Animation
UCSC Ext. - Certified Software Project Manager
Cogswell Polytechnical – Computer Video Imaging

Kevin Richardson is a creative and strategic consultant in the entertainment business. In addition to producing over a dozen casual games including the Family Feud series and subscription based multiplayer, Kevin was the Executive Producer over the award-winning ClueFinders series and many of the Reader Rabbit games while at The Learning Company/Mattel Interactive, and spearheaded outbound licensing for books, music, and television on a variety of brands. Before that, Kevin ran the German wing of the European Studio Grouping PALOMA, developing and localizing original animated content for the German television market with his partners TVC London (known for the films Yellow Submarine, The Snowman...), Estudio Moro Madrid and French partner Didier Brunner (Triplets of Belleville, Princes and Princesses). He has produced over 30 “E” rated games, contributed to 5 feature films, and overseen animation production at home and abroad.

Kevin Richardson’s Specialties:

• Producing/Directing/Leading
• Story and character development
• Licensing
• Storyboarding
• Art, animation and technical recruiting
• Contracts and Negotiations
• Facilitation skills

Kevin Richardson’s Experience

• Senior Producer

  MTV Networks

  (Entertainment industry)

  2008 — Present (less than a year)

• Senior Producer

  Viacom: Nickelodeon Kids and Family Games Group

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Entertainment industry)

  July 2008 — Present (4 months)

• Strategic and Creative

  Richardson Entertainment

  (Entertainment industry)

  April 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  Recent Activity:
  
  Senior Producer - Nickelodeon Kids and Family Games Group
  Designer - www.zookazoo.com
  Designer - www.jenkatmedia.com
  Designer - www.bigtreelearning.com
  General - www.tidepoolpartners.com

• Contributing Writer

  Casual Connect Magazine

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Entertainment industry)

  June 2007 — December 2007 (7 months)

  Casual Connect Magazine:
  
  Producing Casual Multiplayers: Family Feud Online Party
  
  What's Your Story? Storytelling for Interactive Media
  
  http://www.casualconnect.org/content/gamedesign/Richardson-story.html
  
  Inbound Licensing: The Value of Global Brands
  
  Virtual Worlds: The Next Casual Frontier
  
  http://mag.casualconnect.org/winter2008/CasualConnect_Winter_2008.pdf

• Producer

  iwin, inc

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

  September 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 8 months)

  Manage internal and external teams to produce stand alone and multi-player versions of licensed properties from concept to QA release.
  • Make business case for games (revenue, design, schedule, risks)
  • Lead game brand extensions into game families to defend position
  • Manage domestic and foreign teams with at-site producers
  • Manage Licensor relationships and approval process
  • Manage web editorial team for episodic content for FF games

• Family Feud Online Party (multiplayer) - Producer

  www.iwin.com

  (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  September 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 8 months)

  On iwin:
  
  http://www.iwin.com/download/75023909520346476/family-feud-online-party-game;jsessionid=bIiFxJdFOPsa?lid=Family%20Feud%20Online%20Party™TopTen&lpos=TopTen1

• Family Feud I - Producer

  www.iwin.com

  (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  September 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 8 months)

  On Yahoo!:
  
  http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc;_ylc=X3IDMgRtcANibARwb3MDMjI1BHNlYwNscG8Ec2xrA0ZhbWlseSBGZXVkIElJJiMxNTM7?gamekey=familyfeud

• Family Feud Hollywood - Producer

  www.iwin.com

  (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  September 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 8 months)

  On BigFish:
  
  http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=ffhollywood

• Family Feud II - Producer

  www.iwin.com

  (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  September 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 8 months)

  On Yahoo!:
  
  http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc;_ylc=X3IDMgRtcANibARwb3MDMjEzBHNlYwNscG8Ec2xrA0ZhaXJ5IFRyZWFzdXJl?gamekey=familyfeud2

• Hexalot - Producer for iwin

  www.iwin.com

  (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  September 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 8 months)

  On Yahoo!:
  
  This is a fun and approachable game designed and developed by GameOn in Sweden and managed by me at iwin with a change doc. that tweaked minor mechanical aspects and added the King Arthur story, naming, etc.. Super nice and professional developer - a joy to work with.
  
  http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc;_ylc=X3IDMgRtcANibARwb3MDMjg3BHNlYwNscG8Ec2xrA0hlYXZ5IFdlYXBvbg--?gamekey=hexalot

• Boggle - Producer

  www.iwin.com

  (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  September 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 8 months)

  On BigFish:
  
  http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/1659/boggle/index.html

• Trivial Pursuit Bring On The 90's - Producer

  www.iwin.com

  (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  September 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 8 months)

  On Yahoo!:
  
  http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/1445/trivialpursuitbrin/index.html

• Trivial Pursuit Silver Screen Edition - Producer

  www.iwin.com

  (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  September 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 8 months)

  On Yahoo!:
  
  http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc;_ylc=X3IDMgRtcANibARwb3MDNjU5BHNlYwNscG8Ec2xrA1RyaXZpYWwgUHVyc3VpdCBCcmluZyBvbiB0aGUgOTAncyBFZGl0aW9u?gamekey=trivialpursuit

• Wordy Vu - Producer

  www.iwin.com

  (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  September 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 8 months)

  This is a fun little word game for spry spellers. Not for the slow, or for those who hate chocolates. Executed by the fabulously talented developers in Vancouver, Magellan Interactive.
  
  Game Link:
  http://www.bigfishgames.com/download-games/1078/wordyvu/index.html

• RISK - Producer

  www.iwin.com

  (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  September 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 8 months)

  I produced this game to a pre-beta state with my UK counterpart before passing the baton to the talented Jim Stern. Great team and Hasbro was an excellent partner!
  
  Game link:
  http://www.iwin.com/download/13/risk-game

• WORDSCAPE Online Party - Producer

  www.iwin.com

  (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Computer Games industry)

  September 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 8 months)

  I produced this to beta, following the Feud online Party model and methods, and then handed it off to my esteemed colleague Nathan Fahrenthold.
  
  Here's the link!
  
  http://www.iwin.com/download/1734727414107676527/wordscape-online-party-game

• Associate Professor - CG and animation projects

  Cogswell Polytechnical College

  (Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Animation industry)

  September 2001 — June 2005 (3 years 10 months)

• TumbleBees ToGo - Associate Producer

  Electronic Arts - Pogo

  (Public Company; Computer Games industry)

  2003 — 2004 (1 year)

  Here's the link:
  
  http://download-games.pogo.com/exe/Tumble_Bees_To_Go-setup.exe?RefId=424&origin=pcat_dl_lnk&genre=Pogo Originals&ln=en&ext=Tumble_Bees_To_Go-setup.exe

• Executive Producer

  The Learning Company

  (Public Company; Entertainment industry)

  1994 — 2001 (7 years)

  I oversaw most of the CDROM Reader Rabbit titles (but not all), and the ClueFinders titles, a brand incubated in my product development group aimed at the 8-12 age group.

• Executive Producer

  The Learning Company/Mattel Interactive

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Entertainment industry)

  April 1994 — January 2001 (6 years 10 months)

  I was the Executive Producer in R&D over the two main game franchises: Reader Rabbit and The ClueFinders - games that spanned Toddler to 6th grade. While there I EP'd over 18 award winning titles with the producer talents of Kenny Dinkin, Dave Rohrl, Lauren Meltzer, Kate Lilienthal, Toby Levenson, Cindy Johnson, Jeffrey Kessler, Lyndon Wong....and many talented engineers, artists, animators, and learning specialists.
  
  Here's a sample: (NOTE: the last 2 titles on the page below I had nothing to do with)
  
  http://www.learningcompany.com/jump.jsp?itemType=CATEGORY&itemID=89

• CEO - Executive Producer

  Living Colours, Munich (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 11-50 employees; Animation industry)

  January 1990 — January 1994 (4 years 1 month)

  I directed and produced comercials for Procter and Gamble, Ferrerro Chocolates, BeeDees Underwear, Zamek Soup, and other various European products. Localized productions for German TV. Developed animated pilot for an EU TV series with my partners TVC London, Estudio Moro Madrid, and my French partners. Was a member of Cartoon, the EU's MEDIA initiative. Worked with the talented producers Didier Brunner, Santiago Moro and John Coates.

• Localization Producer -

  Living Colours

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Animation industry)

  January 1992 — February 1993 (1 year 2 months)

  Localized the Didier Brunner production of a Michel Ocelot film for the German market Princes and Princesses.
  
  Link here:
  
  http://en.unifrance.org/movie/20666/princes-and-princesses

• Co-Animation Director

  MS Film, Munich

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Animation industry)

  January 1987 — January 1989 (2 years 1 month)

  I oversaw several animated sequences for a German feature film. Directed storyboard, layout, and animation.

• Willow - Special Effects Animator

  Industrial Light and Magic

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  January 1988 — December 1988 (1 year)

  I animated shadows for the miniature "brownies" that captured Willow under the direction of Wes Takahashi - these are the shadows that got lost during blue screen. I also did a few roto scenes.
  
  Though you can barely see the shadows, if you squint your eyes, you may catch one or two in this clip:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCZd4EQFZfk

• Who Framed Roger Rabbit - Rotoscope

  Industrial Light and Magic

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  January 1988 — December 1988 (1 year)

  I removed wires and garbage from blue screen shots with Bob Hoskins in them. I did 2 or 3 shots for this specific film. I was hired to work on Willow.

• The Brave Little Toaster - Layout Artist

  Hyperion/Kushner-Locke

  (Partnership; 11-50 employees; Animation industry)

  January 1987 — December 1987 (1 year)

  I was a layout artist on The Brave Little Toaster. I worked on a few songs, and several parts of the forest journey. I did many rough poses for the City of Lights song - I love character expressions and these were great characters to work with. I worked with Joe Ranft (and worked from his boards), Jerry Reese, Brian McEntee, Jim Beihold, Alex Mann... they were great teachers and super talented. The late and famous Kendell O'Conner also contributed color sketches for this production which is one of the reasons the film has an amazing color arc to it.
  
  Here's one of the sequences I layed out - the last minute or so was someone else.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbBEfZ8fK9Y

• The Pound Puppies - overseas layout director

  Hanna Barbera - Wang Films

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Animation industry)

  January 1986 — December 1986 (1 year)

  I was one of several overseas layout directors at Wang Films (Cuckoo's Nest) on Wildfire (cancelled after 3 weeks due to poor ratings), The Flinstone Kids (Captain Caveman segment), and The Pound Puppies. Broke down storyboards into re-use plan, and delegated to the appropriate artists with Chinese interpreters.

• The Flintstone Kids - Layout

  Hanna Barbera - Wang Films

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Animation industry)

  January 1986 — December 1986 (1 year)

  I was a layout artist and layout manager for the Captain Caveman portion of the Flintstone Kids episodes - Unga Bunga! 'Day of the Villians" was the episode where John Kricfalusi shocked us with a pan shot of Hitler and other Nazi party members, plus Atilla the Hun, Celopatra, and so on - I remember it coming through the fax machine from Los Angeles, and thinking "H&B really ok'd this?!" - the scene was cut of course and redone with other villians.
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scpjpz3ReMI
  
  
  http://www.topthat.net/webrock/spinoffs/kids.htm

• Assistant animator

  Colossal Pictures

  (Entertainment industry)

  1984 — 1985 (1 year)

  DTV station IDs, 2 Mug Rootbeer commercials (Amadeus, and north pole expedition), Cereal and more ... assisted Bud Lucky and others.

• Assistant animator: The Nose Runs Wild

  Duck Soup

  (Entertainment industry)

  1982 — 1983 (1 year)

• The Plague Dogs - Colorist

  Mill Valley Animation - Nepenthe Productions

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Animation industry)

  January 1982 — December 1982 (1 year)

  I was a colorist on Nepenthe's The Plague Dogs, The Empire Strikes Back (some matte work), Gary Coleman Show, Scooby Doo, Little Rascals, and here's it comes: Rubik's Cube - yes, the tv series!

• The Empire Strikes Back

  Mill Valley Animation - Industrial Light and Magic

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  January 1980 — December 1980 (1 year)

  Short stint tracing photo roto and making mattes for optical compositing

Kevin Richardson’s Education

• University of California, Santa Cruz

  Software Project Management, Computer Science, 1996 — 2001

  This is UCSC's extension program

• California Institute of the Arts

  Motion Picture School - Character Animation

• Cogswell Polytechnical College

  BA, Computer Video Imaging

• College of Marin

  GE

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Kevin Richardson’s Websites:

• My blog
• Family Feud Online Party
• The Brave Little Toaster

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