Kevin Cloud is an American

video game artist Game art design is a subset of game development involving the process of creating the artistic aspects for video games. Video game art design begins in the pre-production phase of creating a video game. Video game artists are Visual arts, visua ...

. He graduated from LSU-Shreveport in 1987 with a degree in political science. Cloud acquired his first full-time job as a computer artist at

Softdisk Softdisk was a software and Internet company based in Shreveport, Louisiana. Founded in 1981, its original products were disk magazines (which they termed "magazettes", for "magazine on diskette"). It was affiliated and partly owned by paper mag ...

in 1985. He was hired by

id Software id Software LLC () is an American video game developer based in Richardson, Texas. It was founded on February 1, 1991, by four members of the computer company Softdisk: game programmer, programmers John Carmack and John Romero, game designer T ...

on March 10, 1992 to work as an assistant artist to lead artist

Adrian Carmack Adrian Carmack (born May 5, 1969) is an American video game artist and one of four co-founders of id Software, along with Tom Hall, John Romero, and John Carmack (no relation). The founders met while working at Softdisks ''Gamer's Edge'' divi ...

, where he remained to work on popular computer games such as ''

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'', ''

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'', and '' Quake'', climbing the ranks of the company. Prior to his career at id, he was employed by Softdisk as an editorial director, where several other id founders worked. During that time he also worked as an illustrator for Softdisk's Commodore 64

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'' Loadstar''. Cloud was an artist and co-owner of id until the

ZeniMax Media ZeniMax Media Inc. is an American video game holding company based in Rockville, Maryland, and founded in 1999. The company owns publisher Bethesda Softworks with its development unit Bethesda Game Studios (developer of ''The Elder Scrolls,'' ...

merger in 2009, where he now serves as a senior producer.

Works

All games Cloud has worked on were developed by

unless stated otherwise.

References

External links

PlanetQuakeWars.net interview with Kevin Cloud

''Kevin Cloud''
profile at MobyGames {{DEFAULTSORT:Cloud, Kevin Id Software people Living people Louisiana State University Shreveport alumni Video game artists Year of birth missing (living people)