Brian Silva
Video Game Resume
I've been providing design & artwork for video games since the days of pixels. Ifm currently Creative Director at Specular Interactive in Irvine, CA where I'm making cutting-edge arcade titles in a Senior Artist & Designer capacity.
Work History
- Specular Interactive, Irvine, CA '07 to present
- Confidential Title - soon to be released
- H2Overdrive
- Blizzard Entertainment, Irvine, CA '04 to '07
- World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
- World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade
- World of Warcraft
- Starcraft: Ghost
- Q-Entertainment, San Diego, CA '03-'04
- Midway, San Diego, CA '97-'03
- Crank the Weasel
- Stock Carnage
- Hydro Thunder 2
- Hydro Thunder
- Post Linear, San Francisco, CA '96
- Visual Concepts, San Rafael, CA '93-'96
- The Floigan Brothers
- Congo: The Secret of Zinj
- Sylvester & Tweety
- Accolade, San Jose, CA '92-'93
- Bubsy the Bobcat 2
- Bubsy the Bobcat
Game Development History
- Soon-to-be-released coin-op title '11
- H2Overdrive (Senior Artist/Designer) '09
- World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (Artist) '08
- World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade (Artist) '07
- World of Warcraft (Artist) '04
- StarCraft: Ghost (Level Designer) [PS2, Xbox] '06
- Putt Nutz (Artist, Animation) [PS2] '04
- Crank the Weasel (Co-creator, Lead Designer, Artist) [PS2, GameCube, Xbox] '03
- StockCarnage (Artist, Game Design) [Arcade] '01
- Hydro Thunder 2 (Artist, Game Design) [Arcade] '01
- Hydro Thunder (Artist, Game Design) [Arcade version] '99
- Jagged Dagger (Lead Designer) [PSX, PC] '97
- The Floigan Brothers (Co-creator, Lead Designer) [PSX] '96
- Congo: The Secret of Zinj (Project Lead, Lead Designer, Lead Artist) [Genesis & SNES] '95
- Sylvester And Tweety (Background Artist, Game Design) [SNES] '94
- Bubsy 2 (Sprite & Background Artist, Game Design) [Genesis & SNES] '93
- Bubsy the Bobcat (Sprite and Background Artist) [Genesis & SNES] '92
Software Experience
- Photoshop
- Max
- Maya
- Painter
- Illustrator
- Perforce
- Word
- Power Point
- Front Page
- Excel
- Numerous world management/editing tools
- Vegas Video Pro
- Sound Forge
- Premiere
