Kevin Cloud
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Kevin Cloud is a computer games graphic designer
from Shreveport, LA
. He was hired in 1992 by id Software
to work as an assistant artist to the then lead artist, Adrian Carmack
. Prior to that, he was employed by Softdisk
, where several other id founders worked. During part of his employment at Softdisk, he worked as an Illustrator for Softdisk's Commodore 64 disk magazine
"Loadstar
". At the present, Cloud is id's lead artist as well as its co-owner.
Graphic designer
A graphic designer is a professional within the graphic design and graphic arts industry who assembles together images, typography or motion graphics to create a piece of design. A graphic designer creates the graphics primarily for published, printed or electronic media, such as brochures and...
from Shreveport, LA
Shreveport, Louisiana
Shreveport is the third largest city in Louisiana. It is the principal city of the fourth largest metropolitan area in the state of Louisiana and is the 109th-largest city in the United States....
. He was hired in 1992 by id Software
Id Software
Id Software is an American video game development company with its headquarters in Richardson, Texas. The company was founded in 1991 by four members of the computer company Softdisk: programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer Tom Hall, and artist Adrian Carmack...
to work as an assistant artist to the then lead artist, Adrian Carmack
Adrian Carmack
Adrian Carmack is one of the four founders of id Software, along with Tom Hall, John Romero, and John D. Carmack . He had worked there as an artist. He was a major stock owner of id Software until he left the company....
. Prior to that, he was employed by Softdisk
Softdisk
Softdisk is a software and Internet company based in Shreveport, Louisiana. Founded in 1981, its original products were disk magazines...
, where several other id founders worked. During part of his employment at Softdisk, he worked as an Illustrator for Softdisk's Commodore 64 disk magazine
Disk magazine
A disk magazine, colloquially known as a diskmag, is a magazine that is distributed in electronic form to be read using computers. These had some popularity in the 1980s and 1990s as periodicals distributed on floppy disk, hence their name...
"Loadstar
Loadstar
Loadstar was a disk magazine for the Commodore 64 computer, published starting in 1984. It derived its name from the command commonly used to execute commercial software from a Commodore 1541 disk: LOAD "*",8,1, with inspiration from the word "lodestar"....
". At the present, Cloud is id's lead artist as well as its co-owner.
External links
- GameSpy's interview with Kevin
- PlanetQuakeWars.net interview with Kevin Cloud
- Kevin Cloud profile at MobyGamesMobyGames-Platforms not yet included:- Further reading :* Rusel DeMaria, Johnny L. Wilson, High Score!: The Illustrated History of Electronic Games, McGraw-Hill/Osborne Media; 2 edition , ISBN 0-07-223172-6...