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[2006-12-23 20:34:19 +0000 UTC]
"Christopher Schenck"
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 24; Deviations: 25; Watchers: 99
Watching: 21; Pageviews: 10902; Comments Made: 60; Friends: 21
# About me
Since graduating from the Academy of Art I have over twenty years of experience as a freelance and in-house production artist. Starting with my first love, comics, I developed my storytelling and drawing abilities on the demanding monthly publication schedules of print comics in the 1990s. After a short time on small projects I landed the Tarzan monthly at Dark Horse which gave me the chance to improve my drawing of animals and natural settings, along with over-the-top action. This was powerful training which gave me the confidence and focus I would later use to lead the story team on The Return of The King.
Before this I boarded TV animation for Bruce Timmβs Batman Beyond at Warner TV Animation. This was a great experience and I learned so much from the directors and artists there. Batman taught me the difference between panel-to-panel storytelling and motion storytelling, high tech futurism, simplification and drama, acting and pacing.
My first spot as lead story artist was on a very big project: The Lord of the Rings; The Return of The King. As my first experience on a AAA game project I was under a lot of pressure. I started as the only story artist on the project and by the time we were two months in I was leading a team of six. We boarded 17 full levels, 14 of which made it into the game. I worked 12 hour and over days for many months but it turned into one of the best playing games of that year, and stands out as one of the first games that EA made using Hollywood movie production techniques.
# Comments
Comments: 22
This is a warm welcome! Glad you're coming back!
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I am giving you a warm welcome!
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hello mr. Christopher
nice to meet you. Mzzy sent me here! haha! welcome back to DeviantArt (>w<)v
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*camps out as your page until you're back!
Your class is fun thus far and I'm sure it will be even more exciting as these few next weeks pass by!
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Wery good work!
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My work
demons
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heroes
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girls
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colored
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Thanks. glad you like it
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Your LotR work is great, and I love the EA Games. Pity they didn't use the Arwen level you did concept art for, I've been waiting for a decent scenario for Arwen in the world of gaming for years... Ah well, let's hope she's in Conquest which is released soon
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You are much more up on the whole Lotr thing now than I. I loved working on the game...It was hell, but a good kind of hell. But when you work for a big company like EA, your best ideas often end up in the round file! I'll look for this Conquest game of which you speak.
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Thanks man. Happy New Year
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Sure. I am still figuring this DevArt thing out. You have like a billion page views. Have you been doing this for a long long time?
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Haha not even close to that... Been on here pretty much daily since I joined in 2003. I got to know a lot of people on here, made a lot of friends. It was hard to get comments and stuff for the first couple years but if you put yourself out there, get to know other deviants your traffic will grow.
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Hey
yeah, here I am. I kinda got to this party late, but I made it! I have been pretty busy keeping up with the other sites I have to manage and working on new projects, but I will be trying to check in on this site and update with new work every week or two.
Happy New Year
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you have some good drawings here,
like the weight to your lines ..
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Thanks. I will be putting more up every few days. I'm glad you looked. Come back soon and let me know if any of them seem to stand out.
C
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