Andrew Currie

Work History

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  Cinematic Lead

  Firaxis Games

  June 2009 - Present

  Responsible for a huge variety of cinematics on XCOM: Enemy Unknown, such as large-scale, prerendered story scenes; dynamic real-time action cams; and marketing and press materials. Deeply involved in entire cinematic process, including preproduction, detailed camera work and layout, scripting, lighting (both optimized real-time and rendered), development of a render pipeline, and a ton of collaboration with the incredible animators, artists, and programmers. Worked with an innovative new system that can fire off a hand-shot cinematic anywhere in a dyn

• Shareholder and Artist

  Sleepwalker Media LLC

  January 2009 - July 2009

  Midway's defunt Cinematics Team formed into Sleepwalker Media LLC, to create cinematics, animation, and previz content for some very exciting game, television, film, and multimedia clients!
  Titles include:
  • Shadow Complex - Epic Games/Chair Entertainment
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  Lead Cinematic Artist/Director

  Midway Games

  September 2004 - January 2009

  Cinematics Lead on Ballers 2
  Cinematics Art Director of Ballers 3
  Cinematics Lead of unreleased title
  Preproduction for various other titles
  Cinematic production of real-time cut scenes and prerendered cinematics on a wide range of titles, from preproduction to final implementation. Developed animatics and previz, established cinematics style, reviewed and approved layout artists' shots, assisted in rendering and compositing for prerendered projects, and in-game implementation for real-time scenes. Also advised the development of proprietary in-game cine

  

  

• Illustrator

  e-Enterprise Center, Purdue University

  May 2003 - October 2003

  Illustration and 3D animation for research clients such as Purdue, NASA, and Du Pont.