Summary
John Bridges is a an experienced art director and lead concept artist. Past experience includes: Hi-Rez Studios, CCP Games, Xaviant, Holistic Design and many freelance clients in the game, comics and advertising industries.
Specialties: Concept art, illustration, storyboards, comps, art direction
Skills
Software proficiency
Experience
- Lead Concept Artist at Hi-RezAtlantaMay 2015 - October 2024
Lead concept artist for SMITE. I managed a team of character concept artists and splash art illustrators (in studio and outsourced), providing leadership for visual development of new gods and skins, as well as overseeing art direction of splash art.
- Concept Artist at XaviantAtlanta, GA, United States of AmericaNovember 2011 - March 2015
Concept art and visual development of characters, creatures, environments, UI elements, and VFX for Lichdom: Battlemage and an unannounced project. I also provided storyboarding for narrative development, and marketing and branding art.
- Concept Artist at CCP GamesAtlanta, GA, United States of AmericaJune 2007 - November 2011
Created concept art for characters, creatures and environments for the World of Darkness MMO project; visual development work for style and mood boards; worked with game designers to storyboard gameplay and create animatics; worked closely with animation director on pre-vis art for animation and motion capture; provided visual development and storyboards for an EVE Online expansion; supervised and organized biweekly life drawing sessions for staff artists.
- Concept Artist & Illustrator at Red Crow StudioAtlanta, GA, United States of AmericaJanuary 1992 - Present
Freelance and contract illustration, storyboarding and concept art from my personal studio. Clients have included: Marvel Comics Group, Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast, White Wolf Game Studio, The Martin Agency, The Stenrich Group, 3DO Company, Chaosium, Inc, FASA Corp. and others.
- Art Director at Holistic DesignAtlanta, GA, United States of AmericaJanuary 1995 - January 2004
Oversaw visual direction and design for the Fading Suns universe line of game products across platforms: print roleplaying games, tabletop miniatures, and PC game development, including Emperor of the Fading Suns (Segasoft) and unshipped Noble Armada (Ripcord); created concept art and illustrations for starships, characters and environments; storyboarding for cut scenes, trailers and animation sequences; lead concept and 2D artist for unshipped Tom Clancy’s BioStrike (developed with Red Storm); contributed art direction for Warhammer 40K: Final Liberation, Mall Tycoon, Merchant Prince titles.
- Fellow/ Graphic Design Co-Chair at Mythic Imagination InstituteAtlanta, GA, United States of AmericaJanuary 2003 - January 2007
Provided art direction and graphic design for non-profit arts and education company; member of leadership team and co-chair of the graphics committee for the multidisciplinary Mythic Journeys conference and performance festivals, held in Atlanta in 2004 and 2006.