Cathy Johnson
Moby ID: 638761
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(Exerpted from an Interview on Breaking In)
My first job in the game industry was as a 2D Digital Artist for Oddworld Inhabitants six years ago. Prior to working at Oddworld, I was a freelance illustrator in NYC. I worked with ad agencies testing commercials known as animatics.
I started out as a Digital Artist. On our second game, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, I was promoted to Lead Digital Artist. My department consisted of five digital artists who were responsible for all the environments in the game.
I also was involved in marketing and PR images for Oddworld. For example, when our publisher or a magazine requested an image, we would provide a hi resolution image for print. Since game art is NTSC resolution, hi resolution art requires a lot of attention to detail and is very time consuming to produce. I'm a painter and love creating images in Photoshop.
I'm currently Manager of Creative Services for Oddworld. I work with our Marketing Manager to provide Oddworld content worldwide. We make sure that our images are used appropriately and meet our quality bar. Advertising, PR, magazine covers, web, packaging and TV commercials are some of the applications. I also maintain the Oddworld website. It's a great job and Oddworld is a terrific company to work for.
Credited on 6 games
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Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee - New 'n' Tasty! (2014, PlayStation 4) | Original Development |
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (2010, Windows) | Creative Services Mgr. |
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath (2010, Windows) | Creative Services Manager |
Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee (2003, Game Boy Advance) | Manager of Creative Services |
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus (1998, PlayStation) | Lead Digital Artist |
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee (1997, Windows) | Digital Artists |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 6 games with Sherry McKenna
- 6 games with Lorne Lanning
- 6 games with Maurice Konkle
- 6 games with Ava Arsaga
- 6 games with Jenny Shaheen
- 5 games with Robert D. Brown
- 5 games with David Rothman
- 5 games with Raymond Swanland
- 4 games with Scott Easley
- 4 games with Josh Gabriel
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Companies
- 5 games with Oddworld Inhabitants Inc.
- 4 games with Valve Corporation
- 4 games with GOG Limited
- 3 games with Digital Dialect
- 3 games with Jordan Freeman Group, LLC
- 2 games with Atari, Inc.
- 2 games with GT Interactive Software Europe Ltd.
- 2 games with Epic Games Tools LLC
- 2 games with GT Interactive Software GmbH
- 2 games with GT Interactive Software (UK) Ltd.
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