ARCHIVE EVENT: April 2009
"Game Animation, Art and Technology"
Andrew Lindsay, Animation Director
Lionhead Studios
Wednesday 22nd April 2009,
Registration 6.30pm for 7pm start, £4
Swansea Metropolitan University's Dynevor Centre for Art, Design & Media
© Lionhead Studios
Andrew Lindsay is Animation Director at Lionhead Studios, the studio behind the enchanting, engrossing and award-winning adventure role-playing game Fable. Lionhead and Peter Molyneux also developed the recently released, and much talked about, sequel Fable II.
At a studio like Lionhead, everything they do artistically, depends entirely upon
the technology they are building for the game. The following questions, and more, were answered by their Animation Director Andrew Lindsay:
Andrew also looked at how the team at Lionhead go about developing a 'combat system' like the one in Fable II.
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Andrew Lindsay has been at Lionhead Studios since 2001 where he is currently Animation Director. Andrew is passionate about the place of ‘art’ within the games development environment. His own work has been shown at international film festivals, Tate Modern etc. |
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