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Champions Online News - Meet the Team: Carlos Montero

Posted by Keith Cross on Sep 05, 2008  | 0 comments in our forums

Cryptic has updated the official site for Champions Online with a profile on lead environment artist, Carlos Montero.

Learn more about Carlos Montero, the lead environment artist for Champions Online!

Q: What do you do on Champions Online?
A: I am become life, creator of worlds! In other words, I am the lead environment artist for Champions Online. I get to do lots of awesome stuff like drive the artistic vision behind our epic environments and guide our team of totally awesome environment artists with rocking out and making sweet environments. When I'm not doing that, I'm figuring out how we're going to push the boundaries even more and really make the environments exciting and captivating.

Q: How long have you worked in gaming, and what did you do before Champions Online?
A: I've been working on level design, game mods and independent game projects off-and-on since I was in middle school. It took me a long time to figure out that making games was actually a real job! Once I did, I immediately went to the nearest school that had a game degree, lived, breathed and ate game art for a few years and then battled my way into the industry. Three years, two manly scars and many dead ninjas later, I landed here at Cryptic.

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