Staff

The staff team consist of a mix of staff that are skilled in design education as well as possessing significant experience of commercial games design. A range of visiting staff with educational and professional backgrounds broadens and supports the input to the student experience

 

Core Staff Team
  Josh Taylor B.A.Hons. M.A. - Senior Lecturer/MA Course Leader Games Design/MA Course Leader Toy Design

Worked in the game industry for over ten years - Game Design, Modelling, Animation, Concept Art, Graphical User Interface - Everything but Coding. Mainly worked as Lead Artist. Possibly the tallest member of the team.

jdtaylor1@uclan.ac.uk

 
  Bev Bush B.A.Hons – Senior Lecturer/BA Course Leader Games Design

Many more years working in industry - Background Painting on children’s cartoons and Environment Modelling for titles such as Lego Star Wars to name just two of her previous lives. The shortest member of the team and a girl.

abbush@uclan.ac.uk

 
  Rhoda Daly B.Des.Hons - Lecturer

Seven years Games Industry experience working as a Level Setup Artist and an Environment Modeller/Artist. Her work includes the entire Lego Star Wars series - 1, 2 and the Complete Saga. She claims to be the tallest member of the team and also a girl - she is a girl.

rdaly1@uclan.ac.uk

 

We also have other professionals working with us weekly on a contract or part time basis such as;

Carleen Houbart, Freelance Artist, Modeller and Animator

Pete Bottomley, Inipendant Game Developer

Scott Taylor, Freelance Technical Modeller

Aaron Foster, Freelance Artist, Modeller, Designer

We also have regular visits from other Industry Professionals delivering lectures, workshops and portfolio advice sessions.

 

Selected list of Core Staff Published Titles

Dangermouse
Count Duckula
The Quivering
Machines - Wired For War
Magic & Mayhem - The Art of Magic
Battlestar Gallactica
Bug Bears
Mickey Mania
Toy Story/Disney-Pixar
Disney's Toy Story
Haven: Call of the King
Shadow Master
Rascal
Sonic Racing
Bugs Life
Muppet Racemania
Buzz Lightyear
Crash Bandicoot the Wrath of Cortex
Finding Nemo
Lego Star Wars
Lego Star Wars 2
The B.F.G.
Truckers
Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
The Computer Game Design Course


- TV Production
- TV Production
- PC
- PC
- PC
- Xbox, Gamecube, PS2
- TV Production
- Mega-Drive, PS1, Sega CD, SNES
- Dreamcast, Nintendo 64, PS1
- Mega-Drive, SNES
- PS2
- PS1, PC
- PS1
- Saturn
- Nintendo 64, PS1,PC
- PS1
- Dreamcast, Game Boy Color, PS1
- Xbox, Gamecube, PS2
- Xbox, Gamecube, PS2
- Xbox, Gamecube, PS2, PC
- Xbox, Gamecube, PS2, XBox360
- TV Production
- TV Production
- Xbox, Gamecube, PS2
- Published Book -here


Publishers/Developers Staff have been involved with
Electronic Arts
Disney
Universal Studios
Warner Brothers
Thames TV
Acclaim
Travellers Tales Ltd
Virgin Interactive
Psygnosis
Warthog
Universal Vivendi
Sony
Henson Interactive
Thames and Hudson
Cosgrove Hall
Revolution Studios
 
 
Also;

The Uclan Games Design Course

Josh Taylor

Jim Thompson


All Recieve a Credit in -

Lego Starwars: The Complete Saga (Nintendo Ds)


- Thank You TT Fusion