Chris Olivia

Chris Olivia was Chief Visual Officer at Cloud Imperium Games.

Work at CIG
Chris Olivia was helping oversee the visual look of the universe and working with the art team, both in-house and freelancers, to see that the game is set in a convincing, believable and immersive world. He also helped design some of the alien races and fill in any other conceptual design cracks as needed.

Other work
He worked with Chris Roberts on and off at 3 different companies, Origin Systems, Digital Anvil and CIG and has worked on Wing Commander III and IV, Wing commander the movie, Freelancer, Brute Force and Star Citizen. He worked on movies including Star Trek The Experience, Predators, Alita: Battle Angel and more.

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

Trivia

 * At the age of 21, he worked as a special make up effects artist for the adult film industry  (freak films were popular at the time).
 * He worked with Robert Rodriguez’s in house creative visual development team for about 10 years.
 * He was a judge for The Next Great Starship.