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• Status:

  Learning

• Name: John Thacker
• Gender: Male
• Birthdate: Feb 15th 1982
• Location: Bellevue
• Sketchbook:
• Website:

  Find prints of my work at INPRNT!, Portfolio Site

• Member Type:

  Professional for 6 years, 5 months

• Field:

  GamesConcept Artist

• Projects I've
  worked on:

  Defense Grid: The Awakening, Defense Grid 2, Defense Grid: Containment, Team Fortress 2, Left 4 Dead 2, Counter Strike: Global Offensive, ImagineFX Magazine, me-magazine (Germany), secret projects...
• Current employer:

  Hidden Path Entertainment

• Areas of expertise:

  teaching, character design, art direction, environment design, ip development

• Skills:

  photoshop, painter, 3ds max

• Available for Work?

  Yes - Freelance

• Networks:
• Resume, etc.:

• Join date: Oct 22nd 2008
• Profile Views:27757

• Last online: Today, 14:30

• Forum posts:2, avg. 0 posts per day. Find JohnThacker’s posts or threads

• Hobbies:

  People, photography, reading, writing, learning fascinating new things, hiking, bicycles, trains, 2D animation, petting kitties, walking around town
  

• Movies:

  No Country for Old Men, Leon, Pan's Labyrinth, Whale Rider, A Christmas Story, Sleeping Beauty, Pinocchio, Oldboy, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Departed, The Cell, Into the Wild, Triplets of Belleville, Drunken Master 2, Les Miserables, The Hurt Locker, Inception, Heat, Let the Right One In, Red Rock West, Fargo, Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, BBC Planet Earth, Look Around You
  

• Music:

  Bob Dylan, Tom Petty,  Pink Floyd, Depeche Mode, David Bowie, The Postal Service, Iron and Wine, Hybrid, Elliott Smith, Massive Attack, VNV Nation, Tears for Fears, U2, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Amethystium, Lisa Gerrard, Coldplay, Pearl Jam,  Death Cab for Cutie, Duran Duran, Incubus,  Snow Patrol, Dido, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Moby, Orbital, A Perfect Circle, Tool, REM, Radiohead, Audioslave, Bjork, Lacuna Coil, The Shins Collective Soul, Koh Ohtani, Nobuo Uematsu 
  

• Artists:

  Ingres, Sargent, Mucha, Jon Foster, Claire Wendling, J.C. Leyendecker, James Jean, Justin Sweet, Min Yum, Sylvain Chomet, many, many others
  

• Tools:

  Photoshop, Painter, Charcoal, Pencil, Hands (2)
  

• Websites:

• About:

  I work in the game industry for my day job, designing fantastical new things and wearing out Wacom tablets. As much as I love art, I will always love people more.
  

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