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MEET: Kosit Jarusripan, Environmental Artist

April 2nd, 2009 |

Author: hirezstew

In our continuing series of "Meet the Team" interviews, we sat down this week with Environment Artist Kosit Jarusripan.

What do you do at Hi-Rez Studios?

I am an environment artist, mostly responsible for architecture in the game.

How did you get into the video game industry?

I went to Savannah College of Art and Designs for a masters in Interactive Design and Game Development. At school I didn’t have clear idea what I wanted to be: animator, conceptual artist, rigger,3D artist. So I learned everything by either self-teaching or classes provided by school. I eventually focused on environment art because it was something that matched up with my background as an architect. And that’s how I got in the game industry as an Environment Artist!

Describe your video game experience, when did you start playing, etc..?

I don’t remember what was the first game I played. But I remember that I used to play a submarine warfare game that came with Sun computer that was used for operating a machine that extracted substances from sample inorganic materials (rock, for example) in my mother’s laboratory. It was very old simulation game using 8-bit gray scale. I liked it a lot in the game you play as a submarine commander navigating the submarine along narrow channel search and destroy enemies and avoid underwater mines. It was very realistic in terms of game play.