Simon

Summary

Simon has had a life long passion for games starting with his first computer a C64. In following this interest, he graduated from Preston University in 2006 with a BA in Games Design. Since graduating he has worked with the Liverpool Games Design company Onteca.

Over the Christmas of 2007, he worked on the online version of Brainbox for the BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/brainboxchallenge/. In the start of 2008, he produced 3d models for a Historical strategy game called ‘Skirmish.’He has also worked on two projects a short film funded by North West Vision and directed by Max Zadow. The other project ‘Tales’ was in celebration of Liverpool’s Capital of Culture and brought together 400 young people from all over Merseyside to perform in St Georges Hall. The artists at Onteca had the challenge of creating an animated back drop for each school’s performance. More challenging still, was the fact that young people were heavily involved in the creation of the digital scene, this involved teaching them skills in digital media that they had no previous experience of. During his time at Onteca he has had his first taste of teaching young people the skills he uses in game creation on Onteca’ Inclusion course. He has been fundamental to the delivery of this course, teaching MAYA, Torque level building etc.He is currently working on a download game for the Wii console and a pitch for Sony.

Specialties:
3d Modeling, Texture Art, Game Mechanics, Brainstorming and Idea Generation