Merlyn Lear - History

	• History •

	Info

	Name Origin Currently based	Merlyn Lear UK North west England
	Career History


	Swordfish studios - Vivendi universal	November 2006 to present

		Swordfish manchester

	Silverback studios	April 2005 to October 2006

	Made man	Continuing the project taken from the ashes of Acclaim. Finalized all the game character models. and generated the FMV cut scenes.
	Rambo and leroy	march 2004 to present

	Indie Rock band	Helped maintain and build their official website
	Acclaim entertainment	August 2003 to August 2004

	Made man	Created over 40 different characters and costumes from the cast of over 150 models used in the game, including the main characters heads, which aged through the game. The project lasted a year before Acclaim hit bad times with financial problems and closed their offices.
	Creative Asylum	April 1998 to August 2003

	Battlebots	Created in cooperation with Warthog (published by THQ) Created middle and lightweight robots, background and effects. The project lasted for a year and a half. And almost reached gold, if not for THQ for pulling the plug because the license failed to have enough support with TV networks.
	Rally extreme	Created in cooperation with Warthog and platinum interactive (published by SCI) Helped work on the arctic and American stages.
	Animanics 2001	Created for Ps1 for warthog in corporation with Platinum interactive providing PS1 tools. Created character models and objects. The project was cancelled due to limited time given for project, a total of 6 months and a lack of programming resources.
	Pac-man adventures in time 2000	Created In cooperation with Minds eye (published by Hasbro interactive with license given by Namco) Creative Asylum created all in game work while Minds Eye created most of the intro work. I created Pac-man models, animations, ghosts, characters, effects, levels, and special movie clips. Strict guide lines where given about how to design the Pac-man model.
	Rally championship 1999	Created in cooperation with Magnetic Fields (published by Actualize) Helped create rally tracks from real driving footage! Over 200 miles of road was created by me from the footage.

	Europress Software	Sept 1995 to April 1997

	Games factory	Was a cut down version of click and create. Helped designed games and library art.
	Click and create products	Designed corporate information shows and demos
	X-miles Rally Championship expansion kit	Created all levels for the expansion kit.
	Fun school 6	Created artwork for different parts of the programs.

	Others	1994 to august 1995

	Black cat software August 1995	Clip art
	Book 1994	Help on book “How to create games In Assembly” Provided graphic library

	Knowledge in

	3dsmax 3dsmax (Character studio) 3dsmax (Farm rendering) Lightwave Adobe Photoshop Adobe After Effects Adobe Premiere Ureal	Maya Softimage Paintshop pro Microsoft word Microsoft Excel Dreamweaver Zbrush