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Key Production Management Team

Art Director – Jeff Connelly

Jeff ConnellyJeff Connelly manages WXP’s internal, contract and external art out-sourcing.  He defines art style and concepts with the Creative Director and Lead Designer, creates and manages the art production pipeline, collaborates with producers to manage art schedules, directs artists in the vision, style, modeling, texture, and lighting required for games, ensures the Art team delivers innovative art techniques and production, and facilitates communication between Art and all departments to execute on each project's vision.  Jeff is a veteran of 13 titles including Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action, Greg Hasting Tournament Paintball, Lord of the Rings, and Cyber Space Mountain Roller Coaster.


Technical Art Director
– Sky Kensok

Sky KensokSky has been in the gaming business for over 15 years with 13 shipped titles.  He has worked with some of the top publishers and developers in the industry, including Sierra, Disney, Vivendi Universal, Activision and Microsoft.  He troubleshoots and corrects art runtime performance issues; coordinates with all departments to ensure product stability and runtime performance; specifies and develops art production tools that meet artists’ needs; develops training programs for art staff; coordinates with the engineering department to ensure artists are following the latest best practices; and identifies ways to increase efficiencies in artist workflow and production pipelines.

Creative Director – Lyndon Sumner

Lyndon SumnerLyndon guides WXP's concepting, prototyping and planning to help define a project's scope and achieve a shared creative vision that represents the interests of clients and partners.  He’s in charge of creating overall gameplay concepts and mechanics, oversees the design process, writes and maintains design documents, establishes creative values, frames concepts and project goals, and manages the design team to implement that creative vision.  Shipped titles include Fellowship of the Ring, Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball and Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action.

Environment Lead – Chris Cvetkovich

Chris CvetkovichChris Cvetkovich has worked in the graphic arts industry for over fifteen years with a focus on video games for the past ten.  As the founder of Arbeit Communications, Chris began his career in the print and design sector creating content for such clients as Intel, AMD, ATI, NVIDIA and Royal Caribbean among others.  Chris has worked on seven shipped titles.   As Lead Environment Artist at WXP, Chris has successfully managed several large teams of on-staff and contract artists and level designers, always delivering an unfailing style of design and art on schedule.

 



 

Character Lead – Mark Cvetkovich

Mark CvetkovichMark Cvetkovich has a degree in fine arts from Sint-Maartens College in the Netherlands. Mark has shipped 10 titles and worked on dozens of other game related projects.  He supervises the character artists and establishes the visual direction of game content, works with the producer and department leads to define the scope of the project and character assets required, interfaces with programming to integrate and troubleshoot implementation of character assets, and assists individual artists on specific tasks to ensure a successful and consistent visual style

 

Engineering Lead – Darren Schoen

Darren Schoen is WXP's Lead Gameplay Engineer.  He graduated cum laude from University of Michigan with a BSE in Aerospace Engineering. He’s been with WXP since 2001, starting as a scripter for Lord of the Rings.  He moved on to UI and gameplay engineering for Greg Hastings Tournament Paintball and Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action.  He is the Lead and AI programmer on WXP's current project.  Prior to WXP, he was a toolkit programmer for CAD developer PTC. 

 

Design Lead – Ryan Spain

 

Production Lead – Dan Dixon

 

Software Engineer - Dov Sherman

 

Software Engineer - David Anderson

 

Engineering Consultant - Rob Jagnow

 

Engineering Consultant - Kevin Bray

 

Office Manager - Shelli Reil



Patrick Moynihan, Jeff Connelly, Sky Kensok and Lyndon Sumner teamed-up in 1997 to form WXP.  They own the company and serve as its board of directors, setting the strategic creative and business direction of the company.