Storm Raiders: Passion Project to Passion Product
As creatives, we often carry with us, a passion project outside of the commercial work we provide. Concept artist veterans Paul and Dane talk through their creative partnership with Arkus Games in taking their own passion project into a commercially successful board game.
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Paul is the co-founder and creative director at Arkus Games. Before entering the board game industry he was an Art Director and Concept Artist at Wētā Workshop, where he worked on film, television and game projects notably; Peter Jackson’s and Guillermo del Toro’s “The Hobbit Trilogy”, James Cameron’s “Avatar” series, Andrew Adamson’s “Chronicles of Narnia”, Blade Runner 2049, “The Expanse” and “Call of Duty:Vanguard”.
A keen educator Paul was also the course supervisor at the Wētā Workshop School at Massey University (2018-2022). He also co-founded the White Cloud Worlds art book series and Halloween inspired Skullduggery Art Show.
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