Andy Luckey
Encyclopedia
Andrew A. Luckey (born October 7, 1965 in San Francisco, California
) is an American
writer
, director
and producer
, primarily of animated works. He also writes and illustrates children's books and Bible studies.
Luckey has produced over 300 episodes of television programs and was most notably a producer
on the 1980s-'90's animated TV series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
(which earned five Emmy nominations) and Adventures from the Book of Virtues
. He is also the author
and illustrator
of the children's book series Spin & Sparkle.
Bud Luckey
. That studio produced numerous animated and combined live-animated television commercials and short films for The Children's Television Workshop's (now known as Sesame Workshop
) series Sesame Street
.
Following high school, Luckey briefly worked as a Visual Effects Designer for the Mill Valley, California
based studio Audio Vision Projects. His most notable work there was co-designing, with famed Cinematographer Katsuya Ushino, the visual effects for the MTV
music video of "Turn of the Century" featuring the Warner Bros. Records
progressive British rock group Yes
and vocalist Jon Anderson
. The video was the directorial debut of Brian G. Smith who later came to fame as a director of fantasy sci-fi films.
(Class of '69), Luckey proceeded to The College of Marin
– also an alma mater and occasional comedy fodder for Robin Williams. Willams and Luckey attended both schools over a decade apart and have only met casually on a handful of occasions, most of which were unrelated to either school.
Luckey initially enrolled as a pre-med/biology
student but decided in his third semester to move to film making and screenwriting. "The hell that is 'O-Chem' (organic chemistry) drove me from premed to film school and, in so doing, probably saved countless lives", Luckey told the College of Marin school newspaper in a 1984 survey on why people changed majors.
In 1986, Luckey continued on to the California State University Northridge, entering what was then known as the Radio-Television Film (RTVF) program of the university's College of Arts and Professional Studies (CAPS). In the early 2000s the school was renamed after alumnus Mike Curb
, a former Lieutenant Governor of California and record mogul founder of Curb Records
. There Luckey was primarily mentored by his Faculty Advisor Alan Armer
, the founding President of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and Producer of the 1960s series The Untouchables
and The Fugitive
and the 70s series Cannon
. Another key influence on Luckey was screenwriter-producer Benjamin Brady, the former President of ABC Television
who had produced the series Perry Mason
and co-created, with Raymond Burr
, the series Ironside
. Luckey also studied under such industry veterans as Nat Perrin
(The Adams Family), Tom Burrows
(director of the '60 Kennedy-Nixon TV debate), Peter Stearn( Happy Days
, The Partridge Family
), Beretta
and Dr. Kildare
writer-producer Irv Pearlberg and Academy Award (Oscar) winning writer-director Sydney Salkow who, despite his work on over 75 feature films, was best known as the producer of Lassie
, I Love Lucy
and its follow-up The Lucy Show
. Luckey received his B.A. in Radio-Television-Film, Media Management in 1988.
Luckey is a member of the Sigma Nu
Fraternity, Iota Upsilon Chapter, which he joined at California State University, Northridge
in 1986.
, Tintin
, Lone Wolf and Cub
, Jean Giraud
-- a/k/a Moebius and the properties of George Lucas
's Lucasfilm, Ltd.. Luckey also managed product placement
of Japanese products in U.S. films—most notably the placement of JVC
's products in the Back to the Future
and Beverly Hills Cop
film series as well as the films Days of Thunder
and Black Rain.
and Dublin, Ireland studios of Murakami Wolf Swenson—the studio run by veteran animators Jimmy Murakami
and Fred Wolf
. That studio was later renamed Fred Wolf
Films. Luckey's most notable work during that time was on the animated TV series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
, based on the Mirage Studios
comics by Kevin Eastman
and Peter Laird
, and "Five Decades with The Chimpmunks, Rockin Through the Years" -- featuring Ross Bagdasarian's characters of David Seville and the Chimpmunks—Alvin, Simon and Theodore—sometimes known as Alvin and the Chipmunks
.
said in interviews to Animation Magazine and other publications that the Toy Story
character Andy Davis was named and based on Andy Luckey, whose father Bud Luckey
was a character designer and story artist on all three films. The "Davis" purportedly came from The University of California, Davis
of which many of the technology personnel on the film were alumni. Andy Luckey has declined to publicly affirm that the character was based on or named after him.
's Virgin Interactive
, President and Chief Operating Officer of Pure Interactive Entertainment and Principal and Executive Producer- Interactive for The Krislin Company. Luckey's most notable work of this time was the video game derivative of Walt Disney
's Aladdin
which was co-produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation
and Virgin Interactive
.
, M.Div, degree from Biola University
's Talbot School of Theology
. He worked as a Youth Pastor and College and Career Pastor during that time for several churches in Southern California.
. It is a family oriented media company headquartered in Ridgefield, Connecticut
.
and The Game Developer's Conference.
Luckey has co-authored and co-edited two white papers for the International Game Developer's Association, IGDA. The first of which was on Intellectual Property
Rights for Game Developers and the second on Quality of Life
in the Game Industry. Both white papers are available free of charge at http://www.igda.org.
(BA
) from the California State University, Northridge
's Mike Curb
College of Arts, Media, and Communication and a Master of Divinity
(M.Div.) from Biola University
's Talbot School of Theology
.
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
) is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
writer
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
, director
Animation director
An animation director is the director in charge of all aspects of the animation process during the production of an animated film or animated segment for a live-action film...
and producer
Television producer
The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...
, primarily of animated works. He also writes and illustrates children's books and Bible studies.
Luckey has produced over 300 episodes of television programs and was most notably a producer
Television producer
The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...
on the 1980s-'90's animated TV series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a fictional team of four teenage anthropomorphic turtles, who were trained by their anthropomorphic rat sensei in the art of ninjutsu and named after four Renaissance artists...
(which earned five Emmy nominations) and Adventures from the Book of Virtues
Adventures from the Book of Virtues
Adventures from the Book of Virtues is an animated television series which originally aired on PBS Kids in the United States for three seasons, beginning in 1996 and ending in 2000. There was a two-year gap in between the second and third seasons. In 2008 the series aired twice daily on qubo...
. He is also the author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
and illustrator
Illustrator
An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...
of the children's book series Spin & Sparkle.
Early work
Luckey learned the craft of animation in his family's studio in San Francisco under his father, animatorAnimator
An animator is an artist who creates multiple images that give an illusion of movement called animation when displayed in rapid sequence; the images are called frames and key frames. Animators can work in a variety of fields including film, television, video games, and the internet. Usually, an...
Bud Luckey
Bud Luckey
William "Bud" Luckey is an American cartoonist, animator, singer, musician, composer and voice actor. He is best known for his work at Pixar as a character designer for Toy Story, Boundin, Toy Story 2, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Cars, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille...
. That studio produced numerous animated and combined live-animated television commercials and short films for The Children's Television Workshop's (now known as Sesame Workshop
Sesame Workshop
Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Children's Television Workshop , is a Worldwide American non-profit organization behind the production of several educational children's programs that have run on public broadcasting around the world...
) series Sesame Street
Sesame Street
Sesame Street has undergone significant changes in its history. According to writer Michael Davis, by the mid-1970s the show had become "an American institution". The cast and crew expanded during this time, including the hiring of women in the crew and additional minorities in the cast. The...
.
Following high school, Luckey briefly worked as a Visual Effects Designer for the Mill Valley, California
Mill Valley, California
Mill Valley is a city in Marin County, California, United States located about north of San Francisco via the Golden Gate Bridge. The population was 13,903 at the 2010 census.Mill Valley is located on the western and northern shores of Richardson Bay...
based studio Audio Vision Projects. His most notable work there was co-designing, with famed Cinematographer Katsuya Ushino, the visual effects for the MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
music video of "Turn of the Century" featuring the Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records
Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...
progressive British rock group Yes
Yes (band)
Yes are an English rock band who achieved worldwide success with their progressive, art, and symphonic style of rock music. Regarded as one of the pioneers of the progressive genre, Yes are known for their lengthy songs, mystical lyrics, elaborate album art, and live stage sets...
and vocalist Jon Anderson
Jon Anderson
Jon Anderson is an English singer-songwriter and musician best known as the former lead vocalist in the progressive rock band Yes...
. The video was the directorial debut of Brian G. Smith who later came to fame as a director of fantasy sci-fi films.
Undergraduate education
After making an early departure from Redwood High School in the Fall of 1983, Redwood High School being a notably unusual institution made famous by the comedy routines of fellow alumnus, comedian Robin WilliamsRobin Williams
Robin McLaurin Williams is an American actor and comedian. Rising to fame with his role as the alien Mork in the TV series Mork and Mindy, and later stand-up comedy work, Williams has performed in many feature films since 1980. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance...
(Class of '69), Luckey proceeded to The College of Marin
College of Marin
The College of Marin is a community college in Marin County, California, U.S., with two campuses, one in Kentfield, and the second in Novato. It is the only institution operated by the Marin Community College District. Its chief executive officer is currently Superintendent/President David Wain...
– also an alma mater and occasional comedy fodder for Robin Williams. Willams and Luckey attended both schools over a decade apart and have only met casually on a handful of occasions, most of which were unrelated to either school.
Luckey initially enrolled as a pre-med/biology
Biology
Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, distribution, and taxonomy. Biology is a vast subject containing many subdivisions, topics, and disciplines...
student but decided in his third semester to move to film making and screenwriting. "The hell that is 'O-Chem' (organic chemistry) drove me from premed to film school and, in so doing, probably saved countless lives", Luckey told the College of Marin school newspaper in a 1984 survey on why people changed majors.
In 1986, Luckey continued on to the California State University Northridge, entering what was then known as the Radio-Television Film (RTVF) program of the university's College of Arts and Professional Studies (CAPS). In the early 2000s the school was renamed after alumnus Mike Curb
Mike Curb
Michael Curb is an American musician, record company executive, NASCAR and IRL race car owner. A Republican, he served as the 42nd Lieutenant Governor of California from 1979-1983 under Democratic Governor Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown, Jr...
, a former Lieutenant Governor of California and record mogul founder of Curb Records
Curb Records
Curb Records is a record label started by Mike Curb originally as Sidewalk Records in 1963...
. There Luckey was primarily mentored by his Faculty Advisor Alan Armer
Alan Armer
Alan A. Armer was an American television writer, producer, and director.Born in Los Angeles, Armer received a bachelor's degree in speech and drama from Stanford University, a master's in theatre arts from UCLA and an honorary doctor's degree from California State University, Northridge.After...
, the founding President of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences and Producer of the 1960s series The Untouchables
The Untouchables (1959 TV series)
The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on ABC. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized the experiences of Eliot Ness, a real-life Prohibition agent, as he fought crime in Chicago during the 1930s with the help of a...
and The Fugitive
The Fugitive (TV series)
The Fugitive is an American drama series produced by QM Productions and United Artists Television that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1967. David Janssen stars as Richard Kimble, a doctor from the fictional town of Stafford, Indiana, who is falsely convicted of his wife's murder and given the death...
and the 70s series Cannon
Cannon (TV series)
Cannon is a CBS detective television series produced by Quinn Martin which aired from March 26, 1971 to March 3, 1976.The primary protagonist was the title character, Frank Cannon, played by William Conrad....
. Another key influence on Luckey was screenwriter-producer Benjamin Brady, the former President of ABC Television
ABC Television
ABC Television is a service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation launched in 1956. As a public broadcasting broadcaster, the ABC provides four non-commercial channels within Australia, and a partially advertising-funded satellite channel overseas....
who had produced the series Perry Mason
Perry Mason (TV series)
Perry Mason is an American legal drama produced by Paisano Productions that ran from September 1957 to May 1966 on CBS. The title character, portrayed by Raymond Burr, is a fictional Los Angeles defense attorney who originally appeared in detective fiction by Erle Stanley Gardner...
and co-created, with Raymond Burr
Raymond Burr
Raymond William Stacey Burr was a Canadian actor, primarily known for his title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside. His early acting career included roles on Broadway, radio, television and in film, usually as the villain...
, the series Ironside
Ironside (TV series)
Ironside is a Universal television series which ran on NBC from September 14, 1967 to January 16, 1975. The show starred Raymond Burr as the wheelchair-using Chief of Detectives, Robert T. Ironside. The character's debut was in a TV-movie on March 28, 1967. The original title of the show in the...
. Luckey also studied under such industry veterans as Nat Perrin
Nat Perrin
Nat Perrin was an American comedy writer, who contributed gags and storylines to several Marx Brothers films and co-wrote the play Hellzapoppin that was adapted in to a film. He is credited with writing the screenplay or story for over 25 films, including The Great Morgan and Song of the Thin Man...
(The Adams Family), Tom Burrows
Tom Burrows
Tom Burrows is an English cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and a wicketkeeper.Born in Wokingham, he has played for Berkshire and Hampshire since his cricketing baptism in 2003...
(director of the '60 Kennedy-Nixon TV debate), Peter Stearn( Happy Days
Happy Days
Happy Days is an American television sitcom that originally aired from January 15, 1974, to September 24, 1984, on ABC. Created by Garry Marshall, the series presents an idealized vision of life in mid-1950s to mid-1960s America....
, The Partridge Family
The Partridge Family
The Partridge Family is an American television sitcom about a widowed mother and her five children who embark on a music career. The series originally ran from September 25, 1970 until August 31, 1974, the last new episode airing on March 23, 1974, on the ABC network, as part of a Friday-night lineup...
), Beretta
Beretta
Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta is an Italian firearms manufacturer. Their firearms are used worldwide for a variety of civilian, law enforcement, and military purposes. It is also known for manufacturing shooting clothes and accessories. Beretta is the oldest active firearms manufacturer in the...
and Dr. Kildare
Dr. Kildare
Dr. James Kildare is a fictional character, the primary character in a series of American theatrical films in the late 1930s and early 1940s, an early 1950s radio series, a 1960s television series of the same name and a comic book based on the TV show, and a short-lived 1970s television series...
writer-producer Irv Pearlberg and Academy Award (Oscar) winning writer-director Sydney Salkow who, despite his work on over 75 feature films, was best known as the producer of Lassie
Lassie (1954 TV series)
Lassie is an American television series that follows the adventures of a female Rough Collie named Lassie and her companions, human and animal. The show was the creation of producer Robert Maxwell and animal trainer Rudd Weatherwax and was televised from September 12, 1954, to March 24, 1973...
, I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951, to May 6, 1957, on the Columbia Broadcasting System...
and its follow-up The Lucy Show
The Lucy Show
The Lucy Show is an American situation comedy that aired on CBS from 1962 until 1968. It was Lucille Ball's follow-up to I Love Lucy. A significant change in cast and premise for the 1965-66 season divides the program into two distinct eras; aside from Ball, only Gale Gordon, who joined the program...
. Luckey received his B.A. in Radio-Television-Film, Media Management in 1988.
Luckey is a member of the Sigma Nu
Sigma Nu
Sigma Nu is an undergraduate, college fraternity with chapters in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Sigma Nu was founded in 1869 by three cadets at the Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Virginia...
Fraternity, Iota Upsilon Chapter, which he joined at California State University, Northridge
California State University, Northridge
California State University, Northridge is a public university in Northridge, a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles, California, United States....
in 1986.
Licensing & Merchandising
Following graduation Luckey worked for a time as the Los Angeles office's Assistant Branch Manager for The Sunrise Company, KK of Japan. In that role he co-managed Japanese licensing of various western properties for the Asian market including The SimpsonsThe Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical parody of a middle class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie...
, Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin is a series of classic comic books created by Belgian artist , who wrote under the pen name of Hergé...
, Lone Wolf and Cub
Lone Wolf and Cub
is a manga created by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima. First published in 1970, the story was adapted into six films starring Tomisaburo Wakayama, four plays, a television series starring Yorozuya Kinnosuke, and is widely recognized as an important and influential work.Lone Wolf and Cub...
, Jean Giraud
Jean Giraud
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud is a French comics artist. Giraud has earned worldwide fame, not only under his own name but also under the pseudonym Moebius, and to a lesser extent Gir, the latter appearing mostly in the form of a boxed signature at the bottom of the artist's paintings, for instance the...
-- a/k/a Moebius and the properties of George Lucas
George Lucas
George Walton Lucas, Jr. is an American film producer, screenwriter, and director, and entrepreneur. He is the founder, chairman and chief executive of Lucasfilm. He is best known as the creator of the space opera franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones...
's Lucasfilm, Ltd.. Luckey also managed product placement
Product placement
Product placement, or embedded marketing, is a form of advertisement, where branded goods or services are placed in a context usually devoid of ads, such as movies, music videos, the story line of television shows, or news programs. The product placement is often not disclosed at the time that the...
of Japanese products in U.S. films—most notably the placement of JVC
JVC
, usually referred to as JVC, is a Japanese international consumer and professional electronics corporation based in Yokohama, Japan which was founded in 1927...
's products in the Back to the Future
Back to the Future
Back to the Future is a 1985 American science-fiction adventure film. It was directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale, produced by Steven Spielberg, and starred Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover and Thomas F. Wilson. The film tells the story of...
and Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop is a 1984 American comedy-action film directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy, Lisa Eilbacher, John Ashton, Judge Reinhold, and Ronny Cox...
film series as well as the films Days of Thunder
Days of Thunder
Days of Thunder is a 1990 American auto racing film released by Paramount Pictures, produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Tony Scott. The cast includes Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Robert Duvall, Randy Quaid, Cary Elwes and Michael Rooker. The film also features appearances...
and Black Rain.
Murakami Wolf Swenson - and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
From 1989-'92 Luckey worked as a producer for the Burbank, CaliforniaBurbank, California
Burbank is a city in Los Angeles County in Southern California, United States, north of downtown Los Angeles. The estimated population in 2010 was 103,340....
and Dublin, Ireland studios of Murakami Wolf Swenson—the studio run by veteran animators Jimmy Murakami
Jimmy Murakami
Teruaki "Jimmy" Murakami, , is a Japanese American animator and director with a long career working in numerous countries. Among his best-known works are the animated adaptations of the Raymond Briggs books When the Wind Blows and The Snowman...
and Fred Wolf
Fred Wolf
Fred Wolf is an American animator. His works include the 1967 short subject The Box, for which he won an Academy Award; television specials such as The Point! and Free to Be... You and Me, and television series such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, James Bond Jr., and Sarah Ferguson's Budgie the...
. That studio was later renamed Fred Wolf
Fred Wolf
Fred Wolf is an American animator. His works include the 1967 short subject The Box, for which he won an Academy Award; television specials such as The Point! and Free to Be... You and Me, and television series such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, James Bond Jr., and Sarah Ferguson's Budgie the...
Films. Luckey's most notable work during that time was on the animated TV series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are a fictional team of four teenage anthropomorphic turtles, who were trained by their anthropomorphic rat sensei in the art of ninjutsu and named after four Renaissance artists...
, based on the Mirage Studios
Mirage Studios
Mirage Studios is an independent American comic book company founded in 1983 by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, based in Northampton, Massachusetts and best known for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book series.-History:...
comics by Kevin Eastman
Kevin Eastman
Kevin Brooks Eastman is an American comic book artist and writer, best known as the creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Eastman is also the current owner, editor and publisher of the magazine Heavy Metal.-Early life:Eastman was born on May 30, 1962 in Springvale, Maine...
and Peter Laird
Peter Laird
Peter Alan Laird is an American comic book writer and artist. He is best known for co-creating Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with writer and artist Kevin Eastman.-Early life and career:...
, and "Five Decades with The Chimpmunks, Rockin Through the Years" -- featuring Ross Bagdasarian's characters of David Seville and the Chimpmunks—Alvin, Simon and Theodore—sometimes known as Alvin and the Chipmunks
Alvin and the Chipmunks
Alvin and the Chipmunks is an American animated music group created by Ross Bagdasarian, Sr. in 1958. The group consists of three singing animated anthropomorphic chipmunks: Alvin, the mischievous troublemaker, who quickly became the star of the group; Simon, the tall, bespectacled intellectual;...
.
Connection to PIXAR's "Toy Story" Character "Andy Davis"
Ralph Guggenhiem, Producer of the 1995 animated feature Toy StoryToy Story
Toy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated film released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is Pixar's first feature film as well as the first ever feature film to be made entirely with CGI. The film was directed by John Lasseter and featuring the voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen...
said in interviews to Animation Magazine and other publications that the Toy Story
Toy Story
Toy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated film released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is Pixar's first feature film as well as the first ever feature film to be made entirely with CGI. The film was directed by John Lasseter and featuring the voices of Tom Hanks and Tim Allen...
character Andy Davis was named and based on Andy Luckey, whose father Bud Luckey
Bud Luckey
William "Bud" Luckey is an American cartoonist, animator, singer, musician, composer and voice actor. He is best known for his work at Pixar as a character designer for Toy Story, Boundin, Toy Story 2, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Cars, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille...
was a character designer and story artist on all three films. The "Davis" purportedly came from The University of California, Davis
University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...
of which many of the technology personnel on the film were alumni. Andy Luckey has declined to publicly affirm that the character was based on or named after him.
Video games
From 1992-'98 Luckey was involved in the video game industry including stints as a Director and Executive Producer for Sir Richard BransonRichard Branson
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson is an English business magnate, best known for his Virgin Group of more than 400 companies....
's Virgin Interactive
Virgin Interactive
Virgin Interactive was a British video game publisher. It was formed as Virgin Games Ltd. in 1981. The company became much larger after purchasing the budget label, Mastertronic in 1987. It was part of the Virgin Group...
, President and Chief Operating Officer of Pure Interactive Entertainment and Principal and Executive Producer- Interactive for The Krislin Company. Luckey's most notable work of this time was the video game derivative of Walt Disney
Walt Disney
Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O...
's Aladdin
Aladdin
Aladdin is a Middle Eastern folk tale. It is one of the tales in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights , and one of the most famous, although it was actually added to the collection by Antoine Galland ....
which was co-produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation
Walt Disney Feature Animation
Walt Disney Animation Studios is an American animation studio headquartered in Burbank, California. The studio, founded in 1923 as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio by brothers Walt and Roy Disney, is the oldest subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company...
and Virgin Interactive
Virgin Interactive
Virgin Interactive was a British video game publisher. It was formed as Virgin Games Ltd. in 1981. The company became much larger after purchasing the budget label, Mastertronic in 1987. It was part of the Virgin Group...
.
Seminary and Ministry
From 1998 to 2001 Luckey took a self-imposed sabbatical to earn a Master of DivinityMaster of Divinity
In the academic study of theology, the Master of Divinity is the first professional degree of the pastoral profession in North America...
, M.Div, degree from Biola University
Biola University
Biola University is a private, evangelical Christian, liberal arts university located near Los Angeles. Biola's main campus is in La Mirada in Los Angeles County, California. In addition, the university has several satellite campuses in Chino Hills, Inglewood, San Diego, and Laguna Hills.-...
's Talbot School of Theology
Talbot School of Theology
Talbot School of Theology is a non-denominational, conservative evangelical Christian theological seminary located near Los Angeles. Talbot is one of the seven schools that comprise Biola University, located in La Mirada, California.-History:...
. He worked as a Youth Pastor and College and Career Pastor during that time for several churches in Southern California.
Symaxxis, Inc.
From 2001 to 2002 Luckey served as the interim Chief Executive and as a Corporate Director of Symaxxis, Inc. along with Geoffrey Mark, Chief Visionary Officer -- a Los Angeles based biometric science company. He left those positions upon forming Greater Family, LLC in 2003.Greater Family, LLC and Greater Family Press
Greater Family, LLC was formed in 2003 with Andy Luckey as a co-founder and PresidentPresident
A president is a leader of an organization, company, trade union, university, or country.Etymologically, a president is one who presides, who sits in leadership...
. It is a family oriented media company headquartered in Ridgefield, Connecticut
Ridgefield, Connecticut
Ridgefield is a town in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. Situated in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains, the 300-year-old community had a population of 24,638 at the 2010 census. The town center, which was formerly a borough, is defined by the U.S...
.
Industry Speaking and Writing
Luckey is a frequent speaker at industry events including SIGGRAPHSIGGRAPH
SIGGRAPH is the name of the annual conference on computer graphics convened by the ACM SIGGRAPH organization. The first SIGGRAPH conference was in 1974. The conference is attended by tens of thousands of computer professionals...
and The Game Developer's Conference.
Luckey has co-authored and co-edited two white papers for the International Game Developer's Association, IGDA. The first of which was on Intellectual Property
Intellectual property
Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...
Rights for Game Developers and the second on Quality of Life
Quality of Life
Quality of Life is a 2004 drama film, telling the fictional story of two graffiti writers in the Mission District of San Francisco.Directed by Benjamin Morgan, Quality of Life stars Lane Garrison, Brian Burnam, Luis Saguar and Mackenzie Firgens. Morgan co-wrote the screenplay with Burnam, who is a...
in the Game Industry. Both white papers are available free of charge at http://www.igda.org.
Education
Luckey holds a Bachelor of ArtsBachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
(BA
Bachelor of Arts
A Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences, or both...
) from the California State University, Northridge
California State University, Northridge
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's Mike Curb
Mike Curb
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College of Arts, Media, and Communication and a Master of Divinity
Master of Divinity
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(M.Div.) from Biola University
Biola University
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's Talbot School of Theology
Talbot School of Theology
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Sources
- http://www.imdb.com/
- http://www.greaterfamily.com/
- http://www.spin-n-sparkle.com/
- http://www.panda3d.org/acm/biopics/luckey.jpg
- http://www.panda3d.org/acm/program.html
- http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1179171.1179175&coll=GUIDE&dl=&type=series&idx=1179171&part=series&WantType=series&title=International%20Conference%20on%20Computer%20Graphics%20and%20Interactive%20Techniques&CFID=15151515&CFTOKEN=6184618
- http://www.kidscreen.com/articles/magazine/19960101/16844.html?word=Luckey
External links
- Greater Family's Website
- Website for the Spin & Sparkle book series by Andy Luckey -- Greater Family Press
- http://www.csun.edu/~ctva/Alumni/AlumniHTML/NetworkingListA.html
- SIGGRAPH 2007
- http://sandbox.siggraph.org/archives/program06.html
- http://www.siggraph.org/s2006/main.php?f=media&p=factsheets&s=factsheet8
- http://www.igda.org/
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