To kick off the start of November, CGWorld posted an interview with Remedy Entertainment's Senior Environment Artist, Masao Ogino. The piece focuses on Masao's twenty-year career in games and how he got started.
Born in Tokyo, he attended college in the USA to further study English and 3DCG, before returning to Japan and jumping into games. In the interview, he talks about learning a second language, looking for adventures outside his home country and the courage needed in taking that leap.
The main part of the piece though focuses on about his relocation to Finland to work at Remedy, where he has been for the past eleven years, working on titles such as Quantum Break, Control, CrossfireX, and Alan Wake 2. It's in that section where he describes what the role of a Senior Environmental Artist at Remedy entails and what his initial perceptions were of the studio when he first began.
While the original interview is in Japanese, you can check out a Google Translated-version, HERE. It's not perfect, but it provides the gist of their conversation.
