Profile
Art Director, Conceptual Designer & Story Boarder for the video game industry.
Professional illustrator with 10 years of experience in the field of graphic
production reflecting a breath of creative styles.
Name:
D.O.B.
Nationality:
Address:
Telephone:
John McCambridge
23 April 1969
Irish
42 Rue de Paris
94220 Charenton le Pont
France
00 33 143681275
e-mail:
j.maccambridge@wanadoo.fr
Professional experience
2004- 2005
Conceptual designer:
Da Vinci Experience; Totem Games
Conceptual designer et Illustrator Ilyade card game Asmodée France
Conceptual designer: Lascaux a Prehistoric video game; Totem Games
2002- 2004
Freelance Illustrator,
creation of a board game for Asmodée France. Illustration of Board and design of characters
and enviroments and playing cards for the strategy board game, Age Of Gods
Illustrations for Ravage a French games magazine
Freelance conceptuel designer Ontario, a French/ Canadien video game company, creation of
enviroments for the Atlantis 4 adventure game.
Conception of web site for Gaz de France. Agence McCain, France.
Creation of iconography for the web site of the popular kids TV show, ‘C’est pas Sorcier’.
Series of illustrations for the role playing games, Meta Barons, (Humanoïdes Associés),
Agone (Multisim) and Prophecy (Halloween Concept)
2000-2002
Art Director : Arxel Tribe. A Franco/Slovenian video game company .
Senior Artist: conception of enviroments and Characters for real time action games. Jade
Wolf. Hitchcock
Creation of characters and enviroments for adventure games in collaboration with The Union
of French National Museums and Wanadoo for historical adventure games. Jerusalem,
Babylon.
Management of a team of external and internal designers for the creation in 2d of characters
and enviroments.
Directing an art team to maintain a visuel direction for games with a high quality cinematic
artistic style.
Co-ordination of the production of concept art and art direction of 3d modeling.
Regular work trips to Slovenia to follow up on the progress and quality of graphic production.
1997-2000
1996-1997
1996
1992-1994
Lead Designer: Cryo Interactive Entertainment. Conceptual designer for
Characters, enviroments and creatures for the video games. Saga, Rage of the Vikings.
Tales of Chivalry 1 and 2. Atlantis 3.
Freelance Illustrator. Roughs and conceptions for Captain Eventement. Illustrations of
various major French promotional events such as, The festival of Music. Clients included
major telecommunication companies such as Bouygues Telecom.
Creation of board for the high speed racing car board game, Forumle D. (Décartes Games).
Assistant designer of objects and figurines
for licenced products derived from popular TV series such as the Simsons and Warner
Brothers Cartoons.
Colourist for Ortopedic prothesis. Hand painting the exact skin colours of amputies on
transparent silicon gloves. Extensive travel to the USA to work with leading medical centers
for artificial limbs.
Education and Skills development
1995-1996
Return to a French art school to update drawing and graphic skills using computer software,
Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark Express and Ray Dream designer for the Creation of adverts,
story boards and animation. Creation of slogans and illustrations for magazines.
Very good communication, interpersonnel and organisational skills.
Academic Qualifications
1988-1990
1986-1988
H.N.D. Graphic and Product Design
Magee College,
University Of Ulster
Northern Ireland
A Levels- Art, History and Geography
Other Information
Languages. Fluent in French, Notions of Japanese
Extensive travel for professional reasons in the USA and Europe
European driving Licence.
My favorite games are the Medal of Honor series, the Close Combat series and Combat
Mission2. Warcraft, Starcraft and Diablo 1and 2. Heros of Might and Magic3
My Hobbies includes the cinema, war movies, Japanese Cinema, comic books and model
making, mainly World War2 subjects.
My ambition is to visit Japan and see a major historical reenactement of samouri in Kyoto.