Meet the Devs: Eric Kieron Davis (2015.06.16)

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   so I mean it's a long process man well I'm gonna live how do you start up ever is like you wake up oh you're like ah but then where is the first how far back you wanna go I mean I can go or as it goes this has been an 11 year in the making process so I've got it down to a science bike in the morning right shower do my thing let it dry you gotta let it dry yeah if it's not dry you got a lot okay what's this dry and fluffy then jump in there get in the mirror grab out the wax it's dry wax specifically called fiber I'm like I'm dropping products here I think you just did and well that's not the name that's the time and it's dry because I very thin fine hair so I want you guys get thin hair like mine I do so if you actually have here so that's not touching that one look like it's perfect that's wrong hey

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   guys please join us on me the devs I'm James pew this is eric kieron davis hair guy you doing buddy great how are you gonna be here so how did you first hear about the project oh go back many years I think I heard of the Kickstarter right after it broke records that's when i first hit my radar and then I actually met Chris at e3 he was doing a demo of star citizen and I got talking to him and just seems like a really cool project right and I was very excited about what they were you guys were doing we brought you on is a senior producer couple months ago what was your role before that overage a previous company I was a cinematic producer so my last project was the Lords of war project for a blizzard entertainment and it was a lot of fun I've been focusing on assets and film creation have a very large film background I mean focusing a lot of fill in my life and so when they brought me

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   in here was to focus on the art side cool Lords of was in Lords of warlords of war not to be confused with the nick cage Lord of water for Chris produced it's right that's why we were destined to come together right there what do they think is Lorde's a worm confused Lords of war it was like a an online-only build up for warlords of Draenor hmm any sense yeah so it was like these five episodes two and a half tea with surrounded by machinima pieces that were just trying to tell you the story about these bad guys mmhmm yeah the hell screams help the hell screams ha gasps yeah those guys so you see the film background can go a little bit into that yeah man so I uh I got started you know probably in college was really when I figure out what I wanted to do in life I had no idea before then and a big thing for me I realized was I didn't really know what I wanted to do until I

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   was going through the college process and when I found out I wanted to work in 3d of some kind right I found that I needed to get out of that college as fast as I could because I didn't have a program for me so I got a degree in theatre and a minor film production and that's where i got my passion for film production so then I got into school and I started doing animation and production and then I quickly realized like all the reason I love this and why I wanted to be here was because my pics my passion of video games and cartoons and brings them together do those are two awesome passions which appear a cartoon dude let's go away back TMNT probably originally original the original share do you remember the one where shredder open up a pizza a pizza place and the turtles had to go there and they try to get pizza and they found that I was open by shredder and then turn this whole brawl the pizza place got blown up at the end probably I was a good episode I think you just made that up no do you guys need help trust me did have a good

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   a show Valley is the episode title looked at us we're all right I'll check it out data and then you know you get the dark winged ducks and I've got your hails and then you know I mean we go all the way back to George Jetson and all that group right from the fifties and sixties Looney Tunes yeah grow agarwood that stuff watching like Cartoon Network I could the old new you Tunes cartoons like a tex avery stuff yes now that man i love all that stuff he's a museum actually down socal nothing right I don't know outside of irvine somewhere like it I don't know where it is you should go I you should go google it that's how I work so you uh found out you look video game the cartoons yep what was the first thing you worked on within that space oh man uh first thing I actually worked on professionally they'll tell you two things here at the same time one was I was making assets for an MMO it was like a Sim Sim City

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   mmm I'm the name coca nom not come at me that's not at all it's something else some other mo I made I made a lot of hot pants modeled all those yet that was nice and then I also did animation for a an xbox commercial that I don't think ever saw anything ever you're so light of day yeah yeah and then I got in once I got in a blizzard I start working on other projects so we're Warcraft and Diablo and starcraft things like that did you have any in the trailers a good for like Cataclysm yep all of them panera the last one we did was the overwatch one here's a storm yeah I worked on all those with those guys yeah I mean that's those are some really good stuff those like top top in their class the other cinematics but totally does it pretty well it's cool to have you on here doing it's great to be here it was cool because I got to take that passion when I was there and then outside of that i was doing I'd kind of start a

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   small production company so I did a lot of small films webseries novels i just finished crave directing and producing a novel Oh gaming now it was really awesome ready player to tell the holders Dominion out but it's a it's not ready player 2 and then I just you know anything get my hands on what and what I found was I just want to create worlds for people that have fun in and I just want entertainment or e when I was a kid I was in band like a lot of people play the drums for the drums I put the drums good excellent and I was brought in like during some time in the season they were like my family's I was like yeah come down bring your drum and play a little drummer boy I was like okay a time they get in front of it will entertain i'm in i have no idea where that started but i just realized this one entertained right

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   and have fun and get people cool experience you know cool we're let you out of here before you go if you rep the fire questions you ready go okay like every my favorite movie oh my gosh that you have to do favorite yes i can go came to give you a couple of Eretz please singular ooh alright children men I've seen children of men congrat me favorite video game I'm like this is the candy this to me i can give you purge I know up for John no you pick your favorite genre pick your favorite game within that genre alright alright alright probably fable the first fable the first one yeah what I said one all right oblivion I love it if able to is for a better guess about it i'll say this mutant league football my favorite sports game that's not bad yes no fable two is so much better than favor one in every way I agree I agree but I you know it was my first foray into that world i

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   love that universe and then i'll be on i'll give you one more because you are we're still talking yeah Sphinx in the cursed mummy i love that game I don't know why that one stuck out to me it's like this is it that was a good good you're really gonna kerala that time we're doing dr. Muto no i'll wrap is around the same time as another ps2 game I remember i'm back in the day I'm gonna play it now um I had favorite ship in star citizen 890 jump what's up dude favorite ship in star citizen there you go I knew what you're excited and you're saying uh it's a luxury liner and you're basically flying through space and Steve Jobs got did get to see it looks just like it but more it's more because a 5 80 85 X jump runabout that's why I like it because there's more wood grain and that thing than I had my 1918 oldsmobile delta 88 check that car out

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    okay this is eric kieron davis i'm james pew and you just met a dev see it no i did at that time usually I mess it up hard because good