Art Manager
Current
Dec 2021 - Present
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Mike Hanson is listed as Art Manager at Panivox, based in Ackergill, Scotland, United Kingdom. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at astraware.com and a matched LinkedIn profile for Mike Hanson.
Mike Hanson previously worked as Freelance Graphic Artist at Freelance and Founder and Independent Game Developer at Psychotic Psoftware. Mike Hanson holds Pgce from Keele University.
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A multi-faceted games artist and teacher of Interactive Media and Gaming, trained in all areas of media production with around 20 years of industry experience in producing artwork and UI for most classic and modern consoles, computers and hand-held / mobile devices. Recently accessibility designer and e-learning developer for Connect VI Resources, lead artist and musician for Astraware and Lightwood Games, sector skills champion at The Studio school in Liverpool, PGCE-trained teacher of BTEC Game Development branch of Creative Media at UTC@MediaCity with full Qualified Teacher Status and Art Manager for Panivox. When between jobs, I've also been known to occasionally work on a freelance basis while producing one-man indie games under the Psychotic Psoftware label, which you can follow on Twitter at @psypsoftQuick Reference Portfolio (Work-In-Progress - mobile format coming soon):https://mikebhanson.wixsite.com/mike-hanson-quickSpecialties: Art management, user interface, 2D character animation and 2D Backgrounds in Pro-Motion, 3D character and environment modeling, texturing, and character rigging & animation in 3DS Max. Hand-drawn design, storyboarding, video editing, game design, C# and Director-Lingo game coding, flash animation, web design and development, sound and music production, social media marketing skills. Teacher and a successful Kickstarter and Steam Greenlight campaigner.
Listed skills include Video Games, Game Development, Game Design, Texturing, and 45 others.
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Mike Hanson work experience
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Freelance Graphic Artist
Current
Freelance
Mar 2016 - Present
Founder And Independent Game Developer
Current
Psychotic Psoftware
As an independent one-man operation, I make my own games based on my own tastes and and ideas. This freedom allows me to create for the love of it whilst constantly expanding on my varied game-development based skillets.With a Twitter following of over 10,000, I've been very into social media networking which when actively developing, I utilise to a great.
Jan 2013 - Present
Learning Mentor
Church Lawton School
Sep 2020 - Mar 2022
Teaching Professional
Sep 2018 - Aug 2020
Trainee Teacher
Oaks Scitt
I took teacher training to develop my skills as an educator and specialised in Computer Science despite my predominantly art orientated background. I achieved Qualified Teacher Status and PGCE in 2018 and went on to teach for a couple of years after.
Sep 2017 - Jul 2018
Accessibility Designer
Connect
Nov 2016 - Aug 2017
Sector Skills Champion (Part Time)
The Studio Liverpool
At the Studio school, I utilized my experience as a games industry Artist and independent Game Developer, Designer, Sound Technician, Musician and marketeer to assist in the planning of lessons for optimal development of the students' skill sets.I also worked with the students' game development groups in Project Based Learning sessions, ran enrichment.
Sep 2014 - Oct 2016
Games Artist (Part Time)
Lightwood produce a range of popular puzzle, board and card based video games for handheld devices.In my role as a part-time Games Artist with the company, I drew upon my years of experience in the handheld and mobile market to design the overall look and layout of their products, ultimately producing high quality assets for multiple resolution versions of.
Sep 2013 - Feb 2016
Games Artist / Lead Artist
Astraware are a reputable developer/publisher of smartphone games. They produce and port many popular titles. Software I used daily included Photoshop and 3DS Max. I occasionally made use of ProMotion too.Astraware products I've worked on include Pop Cap, Sandlot and Sony titles such as Bejeweled 2, the Tradewinds series and Quantum of Solace.I also.
Jun 2006 - Dec 2012
Games Artist
Rusty Nutz Ltd.
I assisted in the founding of this company and for a few months, worked from home, designing original mobile phone game concepts and producing the artwork for ports and revamps of existing classic games. These Included Bombjack, Mighty Bombjack and Striker for Elite, alongside many pitches for other titles.When we leased our offices and moved into next gen.
Mar 2003 - Sep 2005
Junior Artist / Games Artist
Virtucraft Studios
This was my first permanent position out of universty. Virtucraft produced GBA games for a number of clients. The majority of my work was for The Cartoon Network, though Bam!! Entertainment.We used Pro Motion for almost all of our work, and I had a great deal of experience in tile mapping and dynamic 2D character animation. Later, when the company made the.
Dec 2001 - Nov 2002
Qa
Rage Software
After the Rage aquisition of Denton Designs, the lead staff from Dentons invited me to work in QA for Rage over the summer. For this 8 week period I worked on the SNES version of Fifa 97.
Jul 1996 - Aug 1996
Qa / Junior Artist
Denton Designs
My first experience of games industry work was for Denton Designs Ltd, based on Rodney street, and later, Roscoe Street in Liverpool. I worked for them periodically when school/college hollidiays would allow me the time. Mainly, my work was in QA. Occasionally I would produce graphics for the games with Deluxe Paint or build backgrounds with their in house.
Oct 1993 - Sep 1994
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Mike Hanson education
Pgce
Bachelor Of Science (Bsc)
Education record
Widnes Sixth Form College
Education record
Fairfield High School, Widnes
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Mike Hanson works for Panivox.
What is Mike Hanson's role at Panivox?
Mike Hanson is listed as Art Manager at Panivox.
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Mike Hanson is based in Ackergill, Scotland, United Kingdom while working with Panivox.
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Mike Hanson has worked for Panivox, Freelance, Psychotic Psoftware, Church Lawton School, and Utc@Mediacityuk.
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Mike Hanson holds Pgce from Keele University.
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Mike Hanson is listed with skills including Video Games, Game Development, Game Design, Texturing, Animation, Gameplay, 3D Studio Max, and Character Animation.
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