Andy Knowles

Work History

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  Senior Designer

  Sony Computer Entertainment Europe

  2003 - Present

  Senior Designer - Killzone Mercenary - PSVita (Level design + implementation)
  Designer - Little Big Planet -PSP (Level design + implementation)
  Designer - Heavenly Sword -P33 (Mapping + Collision)
  Junior Designer - 24 - The Game - PS2 (Level design + implementation + lipsync)
  Development Assistant - Ghost Hunter - PS2 (Lipsync - 7 Languages and testing)

  

  

  

  

• Senior Designer

  Sony Guerrilla Cambridge

  ? - January 2016

• Junior Games Designer

  SCEE Cambridge Studio

  August 2003 - June 2007

  I started this position as a development assistant at the tail end of Ghosthunter for Playstation 2 - Key areas:
  -Collision Mapping
  -Lipsync - All ingame cutscenes in seven languages - Yes every language has -Localized lipsync for every character and every cutscene!
  I then moved on to a junior designer role on 24-the game for Playstation 2 - Key areas:
  -Management of the cutscene team and shedules for the producing the cutscenes for 24 - to make sure we hit the deadlines
  -Video editing for captured ingame cutscenes to reduce the total cutscene lengths
  -Collision / Road mapping for AI city driving
  -Design for several levels throught the game - Including driving and shooting levels.
  -90% of the Lipsync for the game for all characters - the other 10% was done by other employees and Image Metrix facial capture.
  -Material flagging for sound effects in the game
  -Moved onto the concept team producing ideas for Playstation 3 and PSP

• technician

  PC World

  2001 - 2003

• Technician / Artist

  Bubble Boy

  2000 - 2002

  I was originally employed as a technician to maintain the network and other hardware resources in the company.
  I gradually worked my way into the software side of games development, gaining a taste for 3D studio max and other software.
  I worked on:
  PS1 - Castrol Honda VTR (Final Stages of the project)
  PC - PowerPuff Girls - Mojo jojo's pet project (Animation and Lipsync)

• Technician

  Logix Computers

  1998 - 2000

  This was a widespread role ranging from:
  Building PC systems for schools and businesses (Workstations) through to building high end servers and military surveilence machines.
  PC Diagnosis and repair
  PC Hardware support - Systems/Printer/Monitor repair (Back when CRT's were actually worth fixing!)
  Software installation / Configuration
  Network Engineer (Putting in network points running cables to the main switch)