Chris Smith



Chris Smith is the Lead Vehicle Artist at CIG Los Angeles.

Work at CIG
He joined CIG in January 2013 as a 3D artist to set the quality standard for the weapons and vehicles in the game. He worked on multiple ships in the game, including the 300 series (both initial concept and rework), Mustang, F7A Hornet Mk II, the Constellation rework, M50, etc. He was the first Cloud Imperium Games ship artist.

Other works
He started doing art for the games industry after he graduated from the. T

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He was working at Lightbox on Warhawk, and when Lightbox shut down he was poached by Eric Peterson, alongside with Mark Skelton, Chris Olivia, Bryan Brewer, Tom Sawyer.

Trivia

 * He is a part of the "New Nine", the group of Star Citizen team members hired in January 2013, when the "Federal requirements" are that 20% of the staff be named Chris.
 * He is excited about Star Citizen and Squadron 42 because of their motion picture quality graphics and an open world with endless possibilities.
 * His first experience with computer games was in the '80s when his stepdad bought an computer for the house. He played  almost non-stop, a lot of the Summer and Winter Games,,  and.
 * He's an army brat who was born in the US but moved to Germany when he was 7.