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Bryant Paul Johnson

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Experience>Art>Freelance:

Illustrator: Girl Scouts of the USA

Cartoonist/Illustrator: USC Mobile and Environmental Media Lab

Colorist: The Search for WondLa, by Tony DiTerlizzi. 2010, Simon and Schuster

Script Doctoring/Editing: Majesty 2: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim, published by Paradox Interactive, 2009

Illustration: Battle for Olympus, by GameTableOnline and Reiner Knizia, 2008 (Subsequent board game version published by Nestor Games, 2009)

Illustration: Bone Wars: the Game of Ruthless Paleontology, published by Zygote Games, 2007

Other freelance clients have included Dark Horse Comics; Paul Hake Productions; Golden Goose Games; Kitchen, Lind and Associates; Comixtalk Magazine; The Weekly Dig; Dave White Illustrations; Minerva Software

Experience>Writing, Lectures & Design:

Book chapter: “The Role of Semi-Permeable Cultural Isolation in the History of Games and Comics.” In Gaming Globally by Nina Huntemann and Ben Aslinger (eds.)
Essay: “The Gravitational Model of User Expectation.”
Lecture: “Finding the Balance between Words, Pictures and Time in Making Comics,” delivered to Webcomic Camp 2010 (part of the Western Massachusetts Writing Project), July 2010.
Lecture: “A Brief History of the American Comic Strip,” delivered to a class on comics at the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology, October of 2009 and October of 2010.
Lecture: “Basics of Games Development,” delivered at Game Design Camp, July 2011.
Game Design: “The Number Crunch: A Game of Death and Taxes (Alpha).”

Experience>Comics>Creator Owned:

Teaching Baby Paranoia: A pseudo-historical webcomic that ran 519 episodes from January 4, 2000 to January 4, 2010 (Sample)

The Lower Kingdom: An ongoing graphic novel (as of this moment 126 pages complete) represented by Kitchen, Lind and Associates (Sample)

Dropped Frames: Periodic, non-fictional comic essays about the history and culture of games (Sample)

The Antecedent: A webcomic of American History for the online magazine Comixtalk. It ran 10 episodes from January 2006 to March 2007

Shorter works have appeared in magazines and anthologies like SPX2003, True Porn, Skin Eater, VMag and The Weekly Dig

Experience>Comics>Work-for-Hire:

Letterer: The Secret Science Alliance and the Copycat Crook, by Eleanor Davis. 154 pages, 2009, Bloomsbury Children

Colorist: Grown-ups Are Dumb (No Offense), by Alexa Kitchen. 2009, Hyperion Books for Children

Colorist: Kidding Around, by Alexa Kitchen. 2007, Denis Kitchen Publishing

Experience>Game Development:

Artist/Animator: Cyberlore Studios, Inc. May 1997-March 2006. Published projects include Heroes of Might and Magic III; Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun; Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim; Majesty: The Northern Expansion; Mechwarrior IV: Black Knight; MechWarrior IV: Mercenaries; MechWarrior IV: Inner Sphere Mech Pak; MechWarrior IV: Clan Mech Pak; Risk

Education:

1996-1997, Program in Computer Animation at ICARI, Montréal, Québéc

1991-1996, BA, Classics, McGill University, Montréal, Québéc

Computer Competencies:

2D Programs: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, AfterEffects, Premiere, InDesign, Manga Studio

Web Design Programs: Dreamweaver, Flash, GoLive

3D Programs: 3D Studio Max, Character Studio, SoftImage 3D

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