Andrew Paquette

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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^[1], he has lived in several states within the US, primarily New York, Maine, California, Minnesota, and Arizona.

1 Illustration
2 Comic Books
3 Harsh Realm
4 Credits
5 Footnotes
6 References

[edit] Illustration

He illustrated the first cover of the cult classic "Fool on the Hill" by author Matt Ruff.^[2] He was most active as an illustrator in the years 1986-1990, but has illustrated a few book jackets since then, primarily for Black Coat Press,^[3] and has also made hundreds of illustrations for his own book, Computer Graphics for Artists: an Introduction.^[4]

[edit] Comic Books

Paquette's first professional work as a comic book artist appeared in the now defunct title Dread of Night^[5] from Hamilton Comics. He later made several one-shot appearances as penciller, inker, or artist, in various titles from Marvel and DC Comics, including a well-received story written by author Nicholas Vance in Hellraiser #14, ^[6] Nightbreed #17, written by Larry Wachowski, of The Matrix fame,^[7] Teen Titans #87,^[8] A couple issues of Avengers,^[9] a Daredevil annual,^[10] Book of the Damned,^[11] Deathstroke^[12] and The Big Book of Urban Legends.^[13] After these initial forays into comics, he became co-creator (with author James Hudnall) and penciller of the Harris Comics series Harsh Realm,^[14]. His last comic, published immediately before entering the video game industry, was the self-parody Dr. Andy #1, published by the now defunct Alliance Comics.

[edit] Harsh Realm

The Harsh Realm comic book series was optioned for use as a TV series by producer Daniel Sackheim and Fox television sometime prior to 1998. By 1999, the series was in production, with Fox veteran Chris Carter (X-Files) at the helm. The series did not perform well and was cancelled almost as soon as it was released,^[15] after airing only three episodes on the Fox network. Later, all nine of the finished episodes were aired on the sci-fi channel (owned by Fox) and then the series was released as a boxed set of DVDs.^[16] When the series first aired, credit was not given to either creator of the series, Paquette or Hudnall. The pair subsequently filed suit against Fox, Carter, and Harris Comics,^[17]^[18] asking for a preliminary injunction against airing further episodes until appropriate credit was given. In the final ruling on the matter, the injunction was granted, Fox relented and gave the two creators credit in the start credits,^[19] and the show was cancelled. Some believe there is a connection between the lawsuit and the series being cancelled, though the show's poor ratings are enough of a justification on their own.

The lawsuit against Carter was filed on October 13, which was both his birthday and Paquette's, as well as the name of Carter's production company, tenthirteen Productions.^[20]

[edit] Credits

[edit] Video Games

Paquette has credits for working on the following games:^[21]

OMFII/Battlegrounds, Diversions Entertainment (worked on this product for Epic MegaGames) as lead artist 1994-1996.^[22]
Unreal, Epic Megagames 1996, incidental character design.^[23]
Tyrian, Epic Megagames 1996, Character design.^[24]
Parasite Eve, SquareUSA 1998, Senior animator.^[25]
Xena, Warrior Princess [1], Universal Studios Digital Arts 1999, Art director
Scooby-Doo! Night of 100 Frights], Heavy Iron Studios/THQ 2002, Art director.^[26]
Full Spectrum Warrior, Sony Pictures Imageworks/THQ 2004, Art director/CG Supervisor.^[27]^[28]

[edit] Feature films

Paquette has credits on the following films:[2]

Space Jam 1996, Warner Brothers, CG Lighter.^[29]
Hard Rain, CG Lighter.^[30]
Smilla's Sense of Snow, CG Lighter.^[31]
Spider-Man 2002, Sony Pictures, Texture artist.^[32]
Daredevil 2003, Texture artist.^[33]

[edit] Paintings

Paquette moved to Arizona in 2003 and made many large format plein-air acrylic landscapes.^[34] At the time, he showed at the Taos Gallery in Scottsdale.^[35]

[edit] Books

Paquette is the author of Computer Graphics for Artists: an Introduction,^[36] published by Springer/Verlag, London and the screenplay Peripheral Vision,^[37] published by Black Coat Press in 2004.