![]() ![]() ![]() Yeah that wasn’t long after I’d become a freelancer in 2007. And then your first gig with Blizzard was the World of Warcraft TCG. Not the well known ones though! The last things we did were Harry Potter games and Pirates of the Caribbean. In terms of games, we did some Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon games. We did a lot of stuff for Disney’s feature animations like Hercules across lots of different platforms. They did lots and lots of license stuff for games and movies. When I started I was something like the fifteenth or sixteenth employee, but by the time I left there were nearly three hundred employees. So they asked me if I was still making pixel art – I wasn’t, but I said that I was – and I borrowed my stepdad’s PC and spent a frantic week before the job interview making some test maps. But years later I got a call from one of the guys I’d done that game with, and they were looking to hire new graphic artists. So I lost touch with that whole scene, and at the same time I left school, got myself a job and disconnected from the computer a little bit. The Amiga was great, more pixels, more colors to play with, but no modem. I kind of lost contact with the guys I’d done that game with shortly after I got an Amiga, an upgrade from the Commodore 64. That happened about four or five years later. But that wasn’t really the start of a career in video games though. It just went from building demos to a game – it was a natural progression. At the time I was doing a lot of pixel art on the Commodore 64, so it’s going back a long way now, and it was a shooter game that I got involved with. It depends where you want to count it from, but my first paid gig was when I was fifteen. You’ve been an artist for a long time, where did it all start? Who was Matt Dixon before Hearthstone? But who is the person behind these iconic images? What’s the process behind all these fun, cute and colorful cards? Matthieist had a lengthy chat with the Brit and picked his brain. Fungalmancer, Hydrologist, Annoy-o-Tron, Snowflipper Penguin… The list of won’t stop growing. That’s why, soon after Hearthstone’s initial couple of cards, Blizzard started outsourcing art to the cream of the crop among freelance artists.Īnd one of the most popular freelance artists is Matt Dixon, whose art has become synonymous with Hearthstone. And while Team 5 has some amazing in-house artists like Jomaro Kindred and Charlene Le Scanff, even they can’t handle fully designing more than one card per day. ![]() Now you might be thinking who won this streaming marathon.With more than four hundred new cards being added to the game each year, it’s safe to say that card art is one of the most hour-intensive parts of Hearthstone design. Correct answers emailed to would be eligible to win an ROG G752 laptop! The streamers started out with a new Hearthstone account, after 24 hours, whoever had the highest rank walked away with $5,000 and was crowned champion of the tournament! This particular marathon was filled with great Hearthstone action and had one heck of an ending with a tie, which resulted in a BO3 (best of 3) tie-breaker to crown the ultimate Play It Cool Champion! Throughout the stream, viewers could participate in a crossword puzzle contest where clues would be given out periodically. From October 17th to 18th, ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) held the Play It Cool - 24 Hour Streaming Marathon in Stockholm, Sweden! In this marathon, we featured the game Hearthstone played over 24 hours by these four streamers below:
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