{"id":559,"date":"2005-05-29T14:50:45","date_gmt":"2005-05-29T14:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/?p=559"},"modified":"2015-04-27T14:51:07","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T14:51:07","slug":"designer-of-x-box-2-lord-of-the-rings-video-games-at-st-martin-book-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/2005\/05\/29\/designer-of-x-box-2-lord-of-the-rings-video-games-at-st-martin-book-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer of X-box 2, Lord of the Rings video games at St. Martin Book Fair."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">GREAT<\/span> <span class=\"Apple-style-span\">BAY<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">, <\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">St. Martin<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"> (<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">May 29 2005<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><strong>)<\/strong> \u2014 <\/span>Ever wonder how video games are designed? Ever wanted a career as a concept artist?<\/p>\n<p>What about having a clients\u2019 list and portfolio that include projects for Xbox, Xbox 2, War of the Rings (Lord of the Rings game), Marvel Comics, MTV, and Rug-Rats?<\/p>\n<p>Well,\u00a0Alcy \u201cRC\u201d Montesquieu has to do with all of the above and more. He will also lead the Illustrator\/concept artist workshop at the St. Martin Book Fair on Saturday, June 4, at the\u00a0University\u00a0of\u00a0St. Martin.<\/p>\n<p>Montesquieu is a concept artist<tt> <\/tt>at Pandemic Studios in Van Nuys, near\u00a0Hollywood<tt>, <\/tt><tt>California<\/tt>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking forward to see youngsters and adults at RC\u2019s workshop on Saturday at the\u00a0University\u00a0of\u00a0St. Martin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRC will show video clips of his work and talk about his professional experiences,\u201d said Shujah Reiph, the Book Fair coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will have posters to sell, and a few free project samples for the first set of people who come to the workshop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Montesquieu is currently working on projects for Xbox and Xbox 2.<\/p>\n<p>As a concept artist, he has designed characters, vehicles, buildings, and graphic interface menus for the\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Full Spectrum Warrior<\/span> video game for Xbox and PC.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2001 and 2003, he worked at Liquid Entertainment as a concept artist\/3D modeler\/texture artist\/animator, and created Low-Poly game art from concept to animation video games such as\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Battle Realms<\/span>,\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">Winter of the Wolf<\/span> (Expansion) and\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\">War of the Rings<\/span> (Lord of the Rings game).<\/p>\n<p>His illustration and design jobs clients-list include Florida Panthers Hockey Team, MTV, Murals, BattleTech, Rug-Rats, Marvel Comics and Image Comics.<\/p>\n<p>This will be RC\u2019s first visit to\u00a0St. Martin. But the commercial art graduate of the International Fine Arts College (IFAC) has long heard about the island from his\u00a0St. Martin\u00a0friends and colleagues who he met at IFAC, such as Angelo Rombley. He is no stranger to the\u00a0Caribbean. Born in\u00a0New York\u00a0and proud of his \u201cCaribbean\u00a0blood,\u201d Alcy \u201cRC\u201d Montesquieu\u2019s parents are from the\u00a0Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GREAT BAY, St. Martin (May 29 2005) \u2014 Ever wonder how video games are designed? Ever wanted a career as a concept artist? What about having a clients\u2019 list and portfolio that include projects for Xbox, Xbox 2, War of the Rings (Lord of the Rings game), Marvel Comics, MTV, and Rug-Rats? Well,\u00a0Alcy \u201cRC\u201d Montesquieu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-fair-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/houseofnehesipublish.com\/sxm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}