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Feature Speaker: Ryan Trowbridge

What is a Character TD? This one started out something like this…

Throughout his life Ryan Trowbridge had two main passions, art and
technology. Growing up in the rainy state of Washington he spent many
days indoors which included a healthy dose of video games. At fourteen
he had already decided on a college to further his passions. In 1999
he attended Digipen Institute of Technology located in Redmond
Washington. With a few new skill sets under his belt he landed his
first job as a texture artist for Pipeworks Software in yet another
rainy state, Oregon. He ended up staying at Pipeworks for six years.
His position quickly changed from texture artist to environment artist
and then finally settled into the position of modeling, rigging, and
animating characters. While in Oregon he was lucky to meet his
beautiful wife Brenda.
After six years of working at Pipeworks, a great opportunity came up
to work as a Character TD for NaughtyDog Inc in sunny California. He
was very excited to set up many of the characters for Uncharted Drakes
Fortune. It seemed like there was no way to top such an amazing
project. That was until starting work on the characters for the most
highly reviewed and awarded game of 2009, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.
To date Uncharted 2 has received 98 Game of the Year awards.

www.rtrowbridge.com/blog