Sunday, December 31, 2006

Wiki Article: Kenji Kaido

Since Kaido-san didn't have his own wiki page yet, I went ahead and started one. You can find it here. If you have additional information about him I encourage you to add it to the article.

Photo, courtesy of GameInformer.com

Profile: Fumito Ueda

Fumito Ueda is the Director of the Sony Computer Entertainment Japan's Product Development Department. He graduated from Osaka University of Arts, where he studied oil painitng. After graduating, Ueda taught himself computer graphics and joined the development studio Warp as a CG Animator in 1995.

After working as an Animator for "Enemy Zero", Ueda joined Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. in 1997.

He assumed the main development roles of Director, Lead Game Designer and Art Designer in 2001 for "ICO", winner of three 2002 GDC Awards and the AIAS's 2002 Game of the Year Award.

Most recently he has worked on "Shadow of the Colossus" where he assumed the main development roles of Director and Lead Game Designer. "Shadow of the Colossus" is the winner of five 2006 GDC Awards, voted as AIAS's 2006 Console Game of the Year, was awarded for "Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction" at DICE Summit 2006 and given the Excellence Award at CESA 2006.

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