Who is Scarecrow?




I am 37 and I live in Coventry in Warwickshire, England. Although I'm originally from Barry in South Wales. I live with my wife, Elin, my daughter, Delyth and my son Dafydd.

I currently work for Blitz Games in Leamington as an environment artist. I have been instrumental in the production of RC Revenge Pro and Extreme-G 3, Pacman World III (PSP version), Reservoir Dogs and the Burger King Pocket Bikes promo game.
I have also previously worked for Microsoft and Lionhead to varying degrees aswell as a slew of Quake2 and Half Life mods.
My interests include drawing, painting, model making - either kits or from scratch, Role Playing (the old fashioned way! - remember games with dice!?), 3D animation and model-making on the Computer (I use 3D STUDIO MAX). I used to create Player Plug-in models for Quake2 and Half-Life.
I also enjoy character and hardware concept design.

I love the cinema. My favourite Movies of all time are: STARWARS IV 'A New Hope', BLADERUNNER, TERMINATOR 1, ALIEN/ALIENS, Amelie
There are MANY others but those are the top five. I also love almost anything by the Cohen brothers.

I watch very little TV but I do enjoy Doctor WHO, STAR TREK the next Generation, Enterprise, Babylon 5, Mystery Science Theatre 3000, Millennium, The West Wing, the Simpsons, League of Gentlemen, Fast Show, Inspector Morse, Firefly, Battlestar Galactica (old and new) and Futurama.

My favourite Artists/designers are Sir Edward Burne-Jones and the pre-Raphaelites, Brian Froud, Ron Cobb, Syd Mead, H.R. Gieger, Rodney Matthews, Frank Frazetta, Stan Sakai, Vaughn Bode, Patrick Woodroffe, James Gurney, and Masamune Shirow.

My favourite Writers are Neil Gaiman, Frank Millar, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, Tom Clancy, Ian Banks, Alan Moore, Storm Constantine, JK Rowling and Dave Stone.

My favourite actors are: Donald Sutherland, Richard Harris, Helena Bonham-Carter, Tom Baker, Ewan MacGregor, Emma Thompson, Garry Oldman, Richard E. Grant and Simon Callow, Jonathan Price and Robert Carlyle.

My favourite Comedians are, Billy Connoly, Eddie Izzard, Jack Dee, Mark Thomas, Paul Whitehouse, Ardal O'Hanlon, Tommy Tiernan, Mark Lamarr, Paul Whitehouse, Peter Kay and Bill Hicks.