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Andrew Paquette
Andrew Paquette is an artist and writer, known primarily for his work as a CG artist in the feature film and video game industry. Born in 1965 in St. Paul, Minnesota, he has lived in several states within the US, primarily New York, Maine, California, Minnesota, and Arizona. Currently he lives in the Netherlands, where he is an art teacher at a game-development school. Comic books Paquette's first professional work as a comic book artist appeared in the now defunct title ''Dread of Night'' from Hamilton Comics. He later made several one-shot appearances as penciller, inker, or artist, in various titles from Marvel Comics and DC Comics, including a well-received story written by author Nicholas Vance in ''Hellraiser'' #14, ''Nightbreed'' #17, written by Larry Wachowski, of ''The Matrix'' fame, ''Teen Titans'' #87, A couple issues of ''Avengers'', a '' Daredevil'' annual, ''Book of the Damned'', ''Deathstroke'' and ''The Big Book of Urban Legends''. After these initial forays int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Paquette is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * B. P. Paquette, Canadian film director, screenwriter, producer and academic * Brad Paquette, American politician * Cedric Paquette, Canadian hockey player * Craig Paquette, American baseball player * Gilbert Paquette, Canadian politician * Karl Paquette, étoile at the Ballet de l'Opéra National de Paris * Leo Paquette, American chemist * Pierre A. Paquette, Canadian politician * Robert Paquette, Canadian singer-songwriter * Robert L. Paquette, (born 1951), American historian * Stéphane Paquette, Canadian singer-songwriter * Yanick Paquette, American illustrator * Renee Jane Paquette, an on-air personality with the WWE, otherwise known as Renee Young Fictional characters * Paquette, a character in Voltaire's novel ''Candide'' *Natalie "Wattson" Paquette, a character in Respawn Entertainment's Apex Legends ''Apex Legends'' is a free-to-play Battle royale game, battle royale-hero shooter game developed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harris Comics
Harris Publications Inc. was an American special interest media company, operating over 75 brands with print, digital, mobile and live event platforms prior to its sale to Athlon Media in 2016. It produced magazines that educate, entertain, inform and inspire. Subject matters spanned an array of interests including decorating, gardening, beauty, automotive, sports, outdoor living, history, tactical, entertainment and wellness. Harris' titles covered a variety of markets and focused on niche special interests, primarily in the United States. Harris Comics (sold in 2010 to Dynamic Forces) published the former Warren Publishing character Vampirella for nearly two decades. Harris sold additional magazine brands including the basketball magazine Slam in 1998, African-American women's lifestyle magazine Honey in 1999, Guitar World in 2003 and XXL in 2014. Athlon Media acquired Harris Publications' magazine brands and websites in 2016 including Harris Farmers Almanac, American Frontie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daredevil (film)
''Daredevil'' is a 2003 American superhero film written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name, created by Stan Lee and Bill Everett. The film stars Ben Affleck as Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer who fights for justice in the courtroom and on the streets of New York as the masked vigilante Daredevil. Jennifer Garner plays his love interest Elektra Natchios; Colin Farrell plays the merciless assassin Bullseye; David Keith plays Jack "The Devil" Murdock, a washed up fighter and Matt's father; and Michael Clarke Duncan plays Wilson Fisk, the crime lord also known as the Kingpin. The film began development in 1997 at 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures, before New Regency acquired the rights in 2000. Johnson shot the film primarily in Downtown Los Angeles despite the Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan setting of the film and comics. Rhythm and Hues Studios were hired to handle the film's CGI. Graeme Revell composed the ''Daredevil'' sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Texture Artist
A texture artist is an individual who develops textures for digital media, usually for video games, movies, web sites and television shows. These textures can be in the form of 2D or (rarely) 3D art that may be overlaid onto a polygon mesh to create a realistic 3D model. Texture artists often take advantage of web sites for the purposes of marketing their art and self-promotion of their skills with the goal of gaining employment from a professional game studio or to join a team working on a " mod" (modification) of an existing game in hopes of establishing industry or trade credentials. See also *Digital art *Texture map * UV map * UVW map *Normal mapping In 3D computer graphics, normal mapping, or Dot3 bump mapping, is a texture mapping technique used for faking the lighting of bumps and dents – an implementation of bump mapping. It is used to add details without using more polygons. A common ... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Texture Artist Computer graphics Digital ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spider-Man (2002 Film)
''Spider-Man'' is a 2002 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero Spider-Man, of the same title. Directed by Sam Raimi from a screenplay by David Koepp, it is the first installment in Raimi's Spider-Man (2002 film series), ''Spider-Man'' trilogy, and stars Tobey Maguire as the Peter Parker (Sam Raimi film series), titular character, alongside Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Cliff Robertson, and Rosemary Harris. The film chronicles Spider-Man's origin story and early superhero career. After being bitten by a genetically-altered spider, outcast teenager Peter Parker develops spider-like superhuman abilities and adopts a masked superhero identity to fight crime and injustice in New York City, facing the sinister Norman Osborn (Sam Raimi film series), Green Goblin (Dafoe) in the process. Development on a live-action Spider-Man film began in the 1980s. Filmmakers Tobe Hooper, James Cameron, and Joseph Zito were all attached to direct the film at one po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smilla's Sense Of Snow (film)
''Smilla's Sense of Snow'' is a 1997 mystery thriller film directed by Bille August and starring Julia Ormond, Gabriel Byrne, and Richard Harris. Based on the 1992 novel '' Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow'' (this was also the title of the UK release of the film) by Danish author Peter Høeg, the film is about a transplanted Greenlander, Smilla Jaspersen, who investigates the mysterious death of a small Inuit boy who lived in her housing complex in Copenhagen. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that has made several mysterious expeditions to Greenland. Scenes from the film were shot in Copenhagen; Kiruna, Sweden; and western Greenland. The film was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, at which August was nominated for the Golden Bear. Plot In 1859, a meteorite streaks across the sky and crashes into the Gela Alta glacier in western Greenland, causing a massive explosion that kills an Inuit fisherman. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hard Rain (film)
''Hard Rain'' is a 1998 disaster heist action thriller film directed by former cinematographer-turned director Mikael Salomon, written by Graham Yost, produced by Ian Bryce, Mark Gordon, and Gary Levinsohn, and starring Morgan Freeman, Christian Slater, Randy Quaid, Minnie Driver, and Ed Asner. An international co-production among the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, and Japan, the plot centers around a heist and man-made treachery amidst a natural disaster in a small Indiana town. Plot During a heavy rainstorm, Tom and Uncle Charlie, two armored truck drivers, are collecting money from banks in the town of Huntingburg, Indiana, which has been evacuated due to flooding. They are ambushed by Jim and his gang of armed robbers, Kenny, Mr. Mehlor, and Ray. Charlie calls the National Guard and is shot dead by Kenny as Tom escapes and hides the cash in a cemetery. The gang chases Tom, who takes refuge in a nearby church. There he is mistaken for a looter by Kar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Jam
''Space Jam'' is a 1996 American live-action/animated sports comedy film directed by Joe Pytka, with animation sequences directed by Bruce W. Smith and Tony Cervone, and written by Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick, Timothy Harris, and Herschel Weingrod. The film stars basketball player Michael Jordan as a fictional version of himself; Wayne Knight and Theresa Randle appear in supporting roles, while Billy West, Dee Bradley Baker, Kath Soucie and Danny DeVito headline the voice cast. The film is a fictionalized account of the timeline between Jordan's initial retirement from the NBA in 1993 and his 1995 return, during which he is enlisted by the ''Looney Tunes'' characters to aid them in a basketball match against visiting aliens who intend to enslave them as attractions for their amusement park. ''Space Jam'' was the first film to be produced by Warner Bros. Feature Animation and was released theatrically in the United States on November 15, 1996, by Warner Bros. Pictures und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Full Spectrum Warrior
''Full Spectrum Warrior'' is a real-time tactics video game developed by Pandemic Studios and published by THQ for Xbox, Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 2. A sequel titled '' Full Spectrum Warrior: Ten Hammers'' was later released. Gameplay ''Full Spectrum Warrior'' is a squad-based game in which the player issues commands to two fireteams, Alpha and Bravo. Each fireteam has a Team Leader equipped with an M4 carbine. The Team Leaders also carry a GPS receiver, which can be used to locate mission objectives and enemy locations, and a radio for communication with headquarters. The second team member is the Automatic Rifleman, equipped with an M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, used to lay suppressive fire on the enemy and assigned to take command if the team leader is shot. The third team member is the Grenadier, equipped with an M4 with an M203 grenade launcher attachment. The last team member is the Rifleman, equipped with an M4 carbine. If a member of the team is wounded, another m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scooby-Doo! Night Of 100 Frights
''Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights'' is a Virtual camera system, third person platform game with Action game, action elements that was developed by Heavy Iron Studios and published by THQ for the PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, GameCube, and Xbox (console), Xbox. The game was released on May 22, 2002, in North America and was released later that year in PAL regions. It was the first ''Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo!'' video game on History of video game consoles (sixth generation), sixth-generation consoles. The PlayStation 2 version became a ''Greatest Hits (PlayStation), Greatest Hits'' title in May 2003. The game has a follow up titled ''Scooby-Doo! Mystery Mayhem''. The game puts players in the control of Scooby-Doo (character), Scooby-Doo in a story that revolves around him searching for the rest of the gang around a Haunted house, haunted mansion after they are kidnapped by an eccentric villain. The game has twelve areas, ranging from graveyards and secret labs to fishing villages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
