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Russell Fincher

Following a 7-year career in professional digital imaging work, Russell began in the gaming industry in 2002 as a texture and UI artist at Motorsports Simulations, Inc. He eventually co-founded Sickhead Games, a full-time independent game development studio in Dallas, Tx. where he acts as lead artist currently hard at work on proprietary IP and development tools. Russell also served as lead game designer for Batman Begins Mobile and lead artist on a Harry Potter title at Klear Games in 2005, created the TGB Adventure Kit in 2006 for Sickhead Games, and teaches digital arts at Dallas area colleges and universities.

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CrazyBump = Better, Faster Art

This has been mentioned a couple of times in the forums, but I just wanted to put my two cents in. I'm totally in love with this program called CrazyBump. It's a free (edit: for now) utility that not only replaces the horrible old Nvidia Photoshop filter for turning color maps into normal maps, bu ...

Sickhead Games is hiring!

Sickhead Games is looking for an artist! Meetup at IGC... Yep, we need a talented individual looking to get in on the ground floor of an up-and-coming indie game studio. Interested? Meet up with us at IndieGamesCon in Eugene next week...Sickhead Games, maker of TGB Adventure Kit and Torsion IDE, i ...

Blended Terrain in TGEA from Terragen

My Experience Building Blended Terrains in TGEA Using TerragenEdit: this plan has now been reformatted as a TDN tutorial for TGEA users.In-game shots from the GDC demo, sans foliage.We're just back from GDC '07, where we had a great time. We saw some old friends, made some new ones, learned a lot, ...

Adventure Kit update 1.1

Adventure Kit update 1.1Hey all, alot of this will be repeated in a development snapshot soon, but just a quick post announcing that the Adventure Kit update 1.1 is available, free upgrade to owners of 1.0. Changes in the new version:Works without TGB source code, so non-Pro users (and even trial u ...

Adventure Kit post mortem

Sickhead Games: Adventure Kit post-mortemIt's been a couple of weeks since our release of the Adventure Kit. We've had a great response from the community, as well as some valued criticism. In all honesty the scope and capabilities of the project had grown quite a bit from its beginning to its rel ...

Update: Sickhead TGB Tile Pack

Update... Sickhead Games' Torque Game Builder Tile Pack #1The content pack and the video...Work on our first content pack for Torque Game Builder has run a little longer than intended (though I'm glad to say we've got a lot going on around here these days), but we've got enough built to share what w ...

Sickhead TGB Tile Pack #1

Sickhead Games' Torque Game Builder Tile Pack #1With a few weeks between projects here at Sickhead Games, I've decided to take on a Torque Game Builder content pack. The idea is to create a Level Builder-ready 2D sprite and tile pack covering a number of variations of terrain, props, and animated ti ...