Robert D. Brown
Concept Design / Art Director / Environment Artist

 

A honors graduate from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. I am the first student to graduate with Entertainment and Product design. With the experience of over a dozen projects, I am a veteran of digital painting, concept design, multiple 3-d packages, and industry philosophy. Beginning 1994, I spent three years with clients including Disney, Activision, and Time-Warner. Throughout that time, I maintained honors status at Art Center. 1997 marked the first of four projects at Oddworld Inhabitants. As Art Director on Abe’s Exoddus I was happy to see the highest sales mark for any Oddworld product. Abe's Oddysee, Munch's Oddysee and Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath, were all very artistically intense and exciting projects. However, it was time to leave Oddworld to explore the future of next gen products. Unfortunately, three months after my departure, Oddworld closed its doors in San Luis Obispo. I now enjoy busily working from my studio as lead concept art supplier for several studios.

 

Currently

Lead vendor for concept art Ubisoft/Wolfpack Studios

World map and concept art for Perpetual Entertainment

Art Center College of Design 1993-1996

BS Product/Entertainment Design with Honors / Joe Thompson Scholarship

Disney Imagineering concept workshop- GM sponsored attraction

Oddworld Inhabitants 1997 to 2005

Art Director- Oddworld Abe's Exoddus

Senior artist- Oddworld Stranger

Environment Artist- Oddworld Munch's Oddysee

Level Design- Oddworld Munch's Oddysee

Concept artist- Oddworld Abe's Exoddus

Associate Art Director- Oddworld Abe's Oddysee

Client Work- 1994-1996

Activision

Concept artist- Apocalypse

Storyboard- Apocalypse

Production Designer Jaymes Hinkle

Storyboard -Seal "Don't Cry"

Storyboard-"GTE, Wireless Corner"

Storyboard- "GTE, When Disaster Happens"

Wolfe Pack Productions

Concept artist- Pulse Entertainment/Flux

Disney Consumer Products

Concept artist- children's media

Palomar Pictures

Concept and storyboard artist- for Larry Shapiro

Time Warner - Six Flags Magic Mountain

Illustration -Superman the Escape

Concept artist -Castaway cove

Concept artist- Kids Club Theatre

Concept artist- Powerhouse Entertainment

Concept artist Storyboard artist- Jungle Book CD-Rom

Environment rendering- Engineered Lighting Products

Teaching 1995 - 1996

Art Center College of Design

Teaching Assistant Gouache Media

Teaching assistant Advanced Entertainment Design

Press & Presentation

G4 gaming network- The making of an Oddworld Game

Spectrum 4 The Best In Contemporary Fantastic Art- Digital Matte Painting

Polygon Magazine- Oddworld Inhabitants

On Line Interviews- Our lifestyles and creative process at Oddworld Inhabitants

Art Center College of Design- Designing for games at Oddworld and portfolio reviews

Expressions- Creating Games at Oddworld and portfolio reviews

Rotary Club International