Tom Angus - Creative World Director / Director of Information Systems

Tom Angus is a ten year veteran of the game industry. Tom's career began at Viewpoint Datalabs where he modeled and textured for various projects, including magazine and TV advertisement and out-sourced video game projects. Tom left Viewpoint to pursue his passion for video games and went to work for Kodiak Interactive Games in Salt Lake City, UT. While there he focused exclusively on real-time environments. After three years Tom left Kodiak to became Lead Environment Artist at Microsoft Games, then went to work for Electronic Arts as the Senior Environment artist on NASCAR 05’ Chase for the Cup. His most recent work included leading the environment team in creating the massive city of Metropolis for EA's Superman Returns-The Game on the XBOX 360.

Wes Grandmont III - Senior CG Supervisor / Director of Financial

Wes Grandmont III has been a professional artist for over 13 years. He earned his degree in Computer Graphics at Syracuse University and worked in commercial post-production at Curious Pictures in NYC on projcts for HBO, Oscar Mayer, Quaker Oats, Kraft, and Martini & Rossi. He then moved into the game industry and spent nine years at Electronic Arts-Tiburon, where he had key roles on every game franchise within the studio. His recent game credits include work as the Technical Art Director on Superman Returns: The Game (XBOX360/PS2), Madden NFL 2005(PS2/XBOX), NFL Street(PS2), and NASCAR Thunder 2003(PS2/XBOX). During his time at EA, Wes pioneered new procedural modeling techniques for constructing race tracks and the 80 square mile city of Metropolis, as well as robust solutions for improving the lighting for the stadiums in the Madden and NCAA Football games. More recently, Wes has been responsible for implementing The Dreamhive's core production technologies, including their custom real-time shading system, production tools and hybrid real-time/software rendering pipeline. Wes has been a guest lecturer at Bowling Green State University and the UCF-FIEA graduate program, lectured at the 2005 Game Developer's Conference in San Francisco and has served as an adjunct professor at the University of Central Florida. Most recently he was an Autodesk Maya Masterclass presenter at SIGGRAPH 2008.

Billy Harper - Character Director / Director of Client Affairs

Billy has been in the entertainment industry for 8 years. His sole focus has been CG characters. He has been involved in core character research and development for several next generation consoles (Playstation 2, XBox 360, and Playstation 3). Thus far in his career, Billy has worked on a major ad campaign for West Virginia University, Medical Research Visualization, Character pipeline development and character art for SCEA's Mark of Kri, character art for Naughty Dog's Jak series of titles, character art for EA-Tiburon's NFL Street, character look development for EA-Tiburon's Madden Next Gen and Superman Returns-The Game, and was Character Lead on Superman Returns-The Game. While working on next gen R&D at EA-Tiburon, he was responsible for developing two major deformation rigs. One was a helper joint/blend shape muscle deformation rig. The other was a joint/blend shape facial rig.

Mathias Lorenz - Creative Director

Mathias started his career in Germany where he did almost everything imaginable in the graphic field, from screenprinting, typesetting and photography to magazine design, campaign-creation and web design, from freelancing to leading his own small studio. He then relocated to Los Angeles from Hamburg, Germany, where he worked for both Warner Brothers Feature Animation and Walt Disney Feature Animation as Technical Director, responsible for look development, lighting, visual effects, background painting and compositing. He has contributed to films such as Dinosaur, 102 dalmatians, and Scooby Doo. From film, he moved into the world of interactive gaming, completing work as Art Director at Electronic Arts-Tiburon on Superman Returns, the action-adventure game associated with the Bryan Singer movie.