Ben Mcgrath Email & Phone Number

Ben Mcgrath is a Senior Lighting Director at Motive Studio. He possess expertise in xbox 360, environment art, game development, ps3, cinematics and 6 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "I had the privilege of being part of Ben McGrath's Lighting team on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf. He's got that rare trifecta of artistic, technical, and leadership expertise that many aspire to but few achieve. From day one, it was clear that he was setting by example an artistic vision for the game's lighting that supported the stated visual goals of the game. He led this effort from the front by lighting some of the game's most complicated environments, and giving specific artistic direction to the rest of us, while giving us all plenty of room to try out our own ideas. On the technical side, Ben was an indispensable fountain of knowledge about all things Frostbite. Without his encyclopedic knowledge base, gained from several BioWare projects, about how best to get EA's Frostbite Engine to do the things we wanted, I don't know how we would have made progress on many levels. All this, plus he was the kind of manager you naturally trust, and want to work with. I'm not sure I ever saw any issue really ruffle him or stress him out, and he was great at shielding us from any stressful issues originating outside our team. All of our scheduled Lighting meetings went over time due to the friendly, chatty nature of our team; I'm not sure we'd have had that under a different team lead. I'd definitely welcome the opportunity to work with Ben again!" and "Ben possesses a very keen eye for lighting, and post-processing effects that draws on a broad knowledge, and mastery of tool chains, rendering principles, performance, asset management, industry trends, engine development, and more. He routinely unravels daunting technical problems, either by investigation or working collaboratively with engineers. Ben inspires me to push the envelope, and tackle tough problems. When Ben brings up a problem or opportunity, it’s wise to listen. I worked alongside Ben for over a decade; much of any success I could claim on Dragon Age is directly attributable to listening to, and carefully following Ben McGrath’s advice! Ben is a formidable presence on any art team; I’d work with him again in a heartbeat."

Listed skills include Xbox 360, Environment Art, Game Development, Ps3, and 7 others.