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  1. DJ Hero

    June 4, 2009 by danlish

    DJ Hero has been announced! I’ve had the pleasure of being the Senior Concept Artist on this project for over a year. Along with Freestyle Games, I have been extremely busy in bringing this title to life.

    When I came on board half way through the project, some of the in game characters where already in place, so I was asked to create concepts for over half of the remaining in-game characters and all the AAA superstar DJ’s. I also created some of the environment concept illustrations for the modeling and animation teams.

    For those who’ve been on another planet, or have no interest in Video games: DJ Hero is the up coming title from Publishing giants Activision, who’ve brought you the Guitar Hero video game franchise. In the last five years GH has sold over 25 million games, being hailed as one of the most popular games in gaming history!

    DJ Hero is a multi platform family game that does exactly what it says on the tin: Using your Turntable/mixer controller, you play as a DJ creating insane mixes, rocking different venues and clocking up your points.

    DJ Hero Controller

    For some of the latest hot gossip Google ‘DJ Hero’ or choose from the links below :

    USA Today:

    DJ Shadow

    Yahoo! Buzz

    MTV UK

    Euro Gamer

    Games Radar


  2. Presentation and Chat

    January 29, 2009 by danlish

    I was invited to the University of Hertfordshire on the 28th to talk about my Art work and my time in the Gaming industry.

    I talked to the students about being Concept artist, my influences, Freestyle Games and Activision, and what the industry expects from a Concept artist. The presentation went on for an hour or so finishing up with a Q&A. After a short break I was then asked to do a live digital drawing session for 30 minutes whilst the students asked more questions. Pritty tricky at points, as my mind would focus on their question and not on the drawing, then visa versa. Takes practice I guess…

    It was a great experience, hopefully giving the students a little inside insite to the Gaming industry.

    Thanks to Neil Gallagher for the invite.