Jim Ludtke
Moby ID: 6224
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Jim Ludtke [...] has been winnings awards and the accolades of his prominent clients since the mid-1970's. His career as an illustrator began with work for Playboy Magazine while he was still attending the Chicago Academy of Fine Art. Over the years he has created print work for Sony, Newsweek, Macworlds, MacUser, Digital Equipment Corporation, Canon, Nintendo, AT&T, The New York Times and Macromedia, among many others. His animation clients include Nabisco, Nintendo, MTV, Time Warner New Media and The Voyager Company.
As a leader in the computer imaging field, Jim is frequently asked to lecture and present his work. Recently he was a featured speaker at the Macworld "Images and Tools" Conference. His San Francisco studio also operates as a Beta site for many Macromedia products and for the Electric Image Animation System.
Jim's animation has been shown at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at Nicograph in Tokyo. His illustration work has been featured at the Bunkamura Gallery in Tokyo and in a San Francisco group show sponsored by Adobe. He won First Place Animation honors in the 1991 and 1992 Macworld Magazine MacMasters contests and also earned a 1991 Pantone Color Award for his illustration work.
Source: Developer's biographies, from The Residents: Freak Show manual, circa 1994.
Credited on 6 games
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| Bad Mojo: Redux (2004, Windows) | We wish to thank the following for their production assistance and/or inspiration |
| Bad Mojo (1996, Windows 3.x) | Special Thanks To |
| Total Distortion (1995, Windows 3.x) | Special Thanks To |
| The Residents' Bad Day on the Midway (1995, Windows 3.x) | Directed by |
| The Residents: Freak Show (1994, Windows 3.x) | Directed by |
| Hell Cab (1993, Windows 3.x) | Animations by |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 5 games with Phill Simon
- 4 games with Roger Jones
- 3 games with Drew Huffman
- 3 games with Vincent Carrella
- 3 games with J. A. Nelson
- 3 games with Young Harvill
- 3 games with Bill Woodward
- 3 games with Sharon Ludtke
- 3 games with Jeff Essex
- 2 games with Jon Middleton
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Companies
- 2 games with Pulse Entertainment, Inc.
- 2 games with Cryptic Corporation, The
- 1 game with Inscape
- 1 game with Voyager Company, The
- 1 game with The Residents
- 1 game with Acclaim Entertainment, Inc.
- 1 game with Warner Interactive...
- 1 game with LVI - Presse
- 1 game with Les Editions Numériques
- 1 game with Digital Fusion, Inc.
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