Ben Badgett Email & Phone Number

Long Beach, CA, US

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Creative Director and Owner of a small independent development and art production house focused on creating marketing assets for movie studios. Much of our work is created “white label” for larger marketing agencies, with us providing everything from initial concepts and pitch decks to UX and game design documentation and full production of games.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Design, development and art production for three early childhood educational games.Kid Awesome is a group of game and educational software industry veterans committed to combining high quality gameplay with essential skills to deliver fun, educational and safe apps. Our mission is to develop children’s confidence and reinforce critical building blocks for.

Art Director and art team lead for WWE Champions freemium mobile game for the final year of production and first four months of live game.

Strategic planning, aesthetic design, animation direction, scheduling and production planning for all animation produced for driver's education coursework.Oversaw creative direction and production of 60 minutes of animation (over 180 separate animated sequences), created largely by an outsourced animation production team in India. My direction increased.

Creative oversight of concurrent multiple titles on mobile, PC, social, console and cross-media initiatives, such as:- Top Gear Stunt School Revolution: Top 10 Game in 50 countries, Top 5 App over 25 countries (F2P)- Top Gear Race the Stig: Top 10 App overall in over 30 countries (F2P)- WWD: Inside Their World: Top 10 Education in 50 countries (Paid).

- Design and art direction for Cartoon Network's first virtual world: Mini Match, built around an original IP and storyline that I developed for Cartoon Network and sustained the network’s online multi-player needs until the launch of Fusion Fall.- Conceived and directed the award winning Ben10 Alien Force Game Creator, Batman: Brave and the Bold Game.

Los Angeles, California, United States

My first attempt at starting my own business! I opened a boutique art production house specializing in 3D assets for in-game art, animation, and concept art for games, movies and toys. I art directed and created the majority of the production artwork, bringing in trusted sub-contractors to help with larger projects.- Created the 3D environments for Contra.

- Managed a department of 28 artists, with an exceptional record of on time delivery, under tight deadlines.- In the two and a half years that I held the position, I was Creative Director for 22 published titles.- Personally responsible for creation of concept art, development of new game designs, pitches and prototypes, art direction of external.

Lead Artist and Artistic Director for children's educational and entertainment games, including Jurrassic Park Dinosaur Battles.

Lead Artist and Artistic Director for educational software, including most of the Math Blaster titles and some Fisher Price games.- Responsible for developing look and feel for individual games and leading art team for educational video games.- Visually designed the most successful game in the award winning Math Blaster series, Math Blaster 6-9, and art.

Bfa, Illustration And Sculpture

Activities and Societies: President of the ACU Art Club (1992), Organized first annual ACU Art Festival (1992)

Illustration