Tabula Rasa : Illumination - Brad

Hometown
New Orleans, LA

Favorite games
ZORK, Command and Conquer, Descent, Tribes, Black and White, Flight Sim 2004, Metroid Prime, Battlefield 1942.

Favorite books
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester; Godel, Escher, Bach; Douglas Hofstedter; Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins; Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams; Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov.

Favorite movies
Blade Runner, American Beauty, Aliens, Ghost in the Shell, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King, The Babylon5 series, if that counts as a long movie.

Favorite websites
The Daily Irrelevent, BoingBoing, Milk and Cookies, AirAmerica Radio, Slashdot, Scientific American, Space.com

Favorite bands or songs
REM (just about anything except Shiny Happy People), jazz and blues, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald. The Pixies.

Favorite quote or personal mantra
"He who makes a Beast of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a Man." - Hunter S. Thompson

Previous projects
Exarch Online.. Unpublished, but a great learning experience! It's also the project that got me connected with NCSoft, which has been great.

Describe your job
My job is to help evolve the ideas, objects, creatures, and systems within the game, and then to develop those crazy ideas and illustrate them as concepts. I work closely with the game designers and the world builders to invent worlds that are as interesting and beautiful as possible. Schedule and technical constraints are a big factor, but after everything is said and done, my job is to make up cool-looking stuff that works.

What do you like most about your job?
I get a chance to combine and use my technical knowledge and curiosity in parallel with my creative and expressive side. I get to solve problems in a creative way, and to help make worlds that couldn't exist in any other way. On top of that, I get to work with amazingly dedicated, very good people. Also, the free coffee is a big incentive.

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