Tore Blystad Email & Phone Number

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Working on new games at Crystal Dynamics

Singapore, Sg

Defining and executing the creative vision in alignment with the studio leadership. Build and run the creative teams and ensure consistency between all aspects of the game. Facilitate creation of style guides / direction for all creative assets as well as the creative pipelines.

Game Development Consultancy and Freelance work

San Mateo, Ca, Us

Working on THE AVENGERS project

San Mateo, Ca, Us

-Responsible for converting the creative vision from the page to in-game storytelling and performance, actor direction (Pcap / VO) and cinematic direction-Working closely with franchise creative director and story lead on story and character development-Creative lead for cinematics

Worked as a freelance consultant on several game projects and pitches, and investigated Scandinavian / Chinese co-development studio ideas.

-Arts United is an independent game art and development studio located in Shanghai, China. When I left, it employed around 50 people and was working on a number of unannounced, high profile next gen console titles with both pre production and production work. -My role was to creatively lead the studio to reach international AAA standards across all disciplines in game development, starting with concept development and game design. I also acted as game and art director for 2 internal projects and spent some time on concept art and script writing as well as bizdev..

Copenhagen, Capital Region Of Denmark, Dk

Directed the Creative Services team in producing marketing material including Hitman Absolution post release, Hitman HD remake, and other Square Enix titles. Wrote and directed IOS app "Hitman Absolution Full disclosure". Developed a number of pitches for new Hitman games across multiple platforms and business models, and pitched and planned a subsidiary studio for IO Interactive.

Copenhagen, Capital Region Of Denmark, Dk

-Overall team responsibility for the game as a creative product-Fuse gameplay and audiovisuals to one unified whole-Writing the game's story and merge it with gameplay-Bring all graphics and sound in the game together in a unified style and vision-Concept art-Cut scene directing-Documentation of vision-Work closely with producer and lead team to practically achieve the above-Some marketing work

Copenhagen, Capital Region Of Denmark, Dk

-Bring all graphics in the game together in a unified style and vision-Concept art-Documentation of vision-Work with Game Director / lead team to practically achieve the above

Copenhagen, Capital Region Of Denmark, Dk

-Design levels-Concepting / aquire references-Build the levels (3D, textures, all props)

Oslo, No

Oslo, No

Lead Artist and Cinematics artist for "Anarchy Online: Shadowlands" expansion pack.

Lead Artist and Cinematics Artist for "Anarchy Online: he Notum Wars" expansion pack.

Lead Artist on "Anarchy Online", a MMORPG for PC. The game was already live, the work needed to be done was managing the live team (aprox 60 in total) and creating new art for patches.

Lead Artist on MIDGARD, a MMORPG that was never released.

Lead Artist, PM etc. on "No Escape", a cartoony 3rd person shooter for PC. The team was only 6 persons, so we all had several roles on the project.

Art for NBA Hangtime, a conversion of the arcade game to the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)

Art on "Pocahontas", game made for the SEGA MEGADRIVE platform, based on the Disney movie of the same name.

Art for "We're Back", game made for the SEGA MEGADRIVE based on the animation movie of the same name.

Art on "Daze Before Xmas", game made for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)