"Game Faces" Project Begins

December 19, 2005 --- Today, the National Academy of Video Game Testers and Reviewers (NAVGTR Corp.) launches the GAME FACES section of navgtr.org. The goal is to reach 100 talent gallery photos in three months and then expand the project into a database with talent-controlled pages. Although submissions from all development disciplines will be exhibited throughout the next three months, January will focus on sound designers and musicians, and February will focus on animators and artists. The first two “faces” are Jesper Kyd and Richard Jacques, soon to be followed by Stacey Yoon, Lennie Moore, and Alex Kharlamov.

Submissions should include bios from 270 to 320 words, and two copies of an image (one in the largest size possible for television; the other not to exceed 240 in width and 300 in height). Images showing more than one person will not be accepted. NAVGTR Corp. is a 501(c)(6) media organization. For more information, please contact info at navgtr dot org.

The Academy has assembled a list of previous nominees and other key members of the development and production community to aid in the search for talent, recognizing key contributors in the fields of video game art, technology, and production. In addition to the names on this list, the Academy welcomes other talent in GAME FACES as well.

2005

Adam Iarossi,

Adrian Price,

Ago Tomohiro,

Akira Sakawa,

Akira Toriyama,

Alan Rankin,

Alex Carlyle,

Alexander Pons Carden-Jones,

Alexander Stein,

Alexis Le Dressay,

Alison Rogers,

Amo Kamimura,

Amon Tobin,

Andre Sogliuzzo,

Andrea Cordella,

Andrew Barnabas,

Andrew Griffin,

Andrew Trabbold,

Andrew Zoboki,

Andy Grant,

Angelo Badalamenti,

Arash Mohebbi,

Aren Downie,

Armin Shimerman,

Arnie Swekel,

Art Lenavat,

Atsuhiko Terada,

Atsuko Fukuyama,

Atsushi Narita,

Atsushi Nishibori,

Avery Waddell,

Barry Caudill,

Ben Bonner,

Ben Durrant,

Bill Wolford,

Boyd Post,

Brad Aldredge,

Brad Dourif,

Bradley Davey,

Brent Disbrow,

Brian Kindregan,

Brian Martel,

Brian Pamintuan,

Bruce Campbell,

Bruce Oberg,

C Wes Saulsberry III,

Carman Cheung,

Caroline Esmurdoc,

Carrie Meade,

Carrie Palk,

Caryn Law,

Charles Coutier,

Charles Cuevas,

Charlie Wen,

Chika Nagayama,

China Moo-Young,

Chris Delay,

Chris Hale,

Chris Klassen,

Chris Murphy,

Chris Sarandon,

Christian Bale,

Christopher Lennertz,

Chuck Russom,

Chuck Yager,

Chun Wah Kong,

Claudia Black,

Collin McQueen,

Constantine Hantzopoulos,

Cory Barlog,

Courtney Pasieczny,

Cris Velasco,

Daigo Ikeno,

Daisuke Takeuchi,

Daisuke Uchikawa,

Dalia Al-Husseini,

Dan Magaha,

Dan Mueller,

Dan Teasdale,

Daniel Cooper,

Daniel Sussman,

Daniel Wiksten,

Dave Matthews,

David Cage,

David Jaffe,

David Kaye,

David McDermott,

David McGarry,

David Munoz Velazquez,

David Murrant,

David Russell,

David Sirland,

David Smith,

Dennis Johnson,

Derrick Hammond,

Djordje Cakovan,

Dominic Robilliard,

Donte Knippel,

Drew Karpyshyn,

Dusty Petersen,

Earl Boen,

Eijiro Nishimura,

Elaine McSherry,

Ellen Hauer,

Emily Ridgway,

Enrique Deo Perez,

Eric C. Biessman,

Eric Holmes,

Eric Ingerson,

Eric Smolikowski,

Erik Medina,

Erik San Juan,

Erik Wolpaw,

Farid Russlan,

Florin Boitor,

Francis Choi,

Francis O'Brien,

Frank Rinella,

Fumito Ueda,

Gareth Mooney,

Garrett Young,

Garry Schyman,

Gary Ireland,

Gautam Babbar,

Gen Sato,

Georg Zoeller,

Gerard Marino,

Giovanni Luis,

Gordon Moyes,

Goro Suzuki,

Grady Hunt,

Grant Albrecht,

Greg LoPiccolo,

Greg Phillips,

Guillaume de Fondaumière,

Gustavo Rasche,

Guy Lampron,

Hajime Sugiyama,

Henk Nieborg,

Henrik Strandberg,

Henrik Vasquez,

Hidé Gondoh,

Hideki Konno,

Hidemaro Fujibayashi,

Hironobu Nakano,

Hiroshi Shibata,

Hiroyoshi Ujita,

Hiroyuki Kobayashi,

Hisashi Sawada,

Hitoshi Niwa,

Ian Gouldstone,

Ian Vogel,

Ian Wood,

Inon Zur,

Isaac Owens,

Ivan Power,

Jack Black,

Jack Wall,

Jackson Rogers,

James Ackley,

James Cunliffe,

James Salt,

Jamie Lack,

Jamil Dawsari,

Jason Haddington,

Jason Minters,

Jean-François Pelletier,

Jeff Newquist,

Jeff Weisend,

Jeff Wofford,

Jeramy Cooke,

Jeremy Pardon,

Jesper Kyd,

Jesse Smith,

Jessica Arbogast,

Jessica Brunelle,

Jim Bishop,

Jim Jagger,

Jin Fujisawa,

Joe Borthwick,

John Cleese,

John Cygan,

John Hood,

John Knottenbelt,

John O'Rorke,

John Santos,

John Tam,

John Wendl,

Jonathan Beard,

Jonathan Venables,

Jonny Watts,

Joseph Faulstick,

Josh Heenan,

Josh Heeren,

Junji Morii,

Kaori Ohshima,

Kaoru Minami,

Kasey Wilson,

Katsuhiko Abe,

Kayoko Sato,

Kazuhiro Numata,

Kazuma Kaneko,

Kazumi Takeda,

Kazunari Matsuo,

Keiichi Kitahara,

Keiichi Satou,

Keiji Inafune,

Keiji Takeda,

Keith Fay,

Kelly Phillips,

Ken Allen,

Ken Feldman,

Ken Levine,

Ken Page,

Kenichi Ueda,

Kenji Kaido,

Kensuke Tanabe,

Kentaro Nakagoshi,

Kentaro Tachiki,

Kentarou Taya,

Kevin Deadrick,

Kevin Martens,

Kibi Wakisaka,

Kim A. Lathrop,

Kim Castro,

Kiyohiko Sakata,

Kiyoshi Mizuki,

Koichi Hidaka,

Koichi Sugiyama,

Koichi Yamazaki,

Koji Hasegawa,

Koji Kakae,

Koji Nakajima,

Kow Otani,

Kris Kristofferson,

Kristen Quebe,

Kristoffer Bergqvist,

Kristofor Mellroth,

Kurt Richards,

Kwon Min,

Lars Verhoeff,

Laurence Fishburne,

Lee Ames,

Linus Josephson,

Lloyd Burr,

Lorne Lanning,

Lou Talamo,

Louis Lu,

Lukas Kristjanson,

Mac Walters,

Makoto Odajima,

Makoto Tanaka,

Manabu Nikai,

Marc Fish,

Marc Tardif,

Marcello De Francisci,

Marianne Krawczyk,

Mark Ahlin,

Mark Anderson,

Mark Filippelli,

Mark How,

Mark Ivanir,

Mark Morris,

Mark Reis,

Marnie Moore,

Masaaki Kaneko,

Masahiro Ishizuka,

Masaki Tokuda,

Masaki Yamanaka,

Masanobu Tanaka,

Masanori Kajita,

Masashi Kuma,

Mat Garey,

Matt Olsen,

Matt Scott,

Matt Vainio,

Matthew Goldman,

Matthew Harwood,

Matthew J. Norton,

Matthew Paul,

Matthew Wagner,

Maximilian Vaughn Ancar,

Mehdi Yssef,

Michael Fong,

Michael Johnson,

Michael Wong,

Michiko Naruke,

Mikami Shinji,

Mike Bambury,

Mike Brown,

Mike Laidlaw,

Mike Reagan,

Mike Rouse,

Mike Yeomans,

Mikhail Islam,

Milenko Tunjic,

Mitsuhiro Shimooki,

Miwa Sakaguchi,

Munenobu Tazika,

Nanako Omura,

Naohiro Taniguchi,

Naoki Yoshikawa,

Narumi Tauchi,

Nate Fox,

Nathalie Chody,

Nathan Fillion,

Nichol Norman,

Nicholas Watkins,

Nick Peck,

Nick Vona,

Nikka Futterman,

Niklas Fegraeus,

Noah Raymond Heller,

Nobuaki Yamazaki,

Noburo Masuda,

Nobuyuki Yanai,

Normand Corbeil,

Patrick O'Shaughnessey,

Patrick Watje,

Paul Coda,

Paul Eiding,

Paul Harrison,

Paul Lee,

Paul Mackman,

Paul Pawlicki,

Paul Richards,

Peter McConnell,

Peter Molyneux,

Peter Thomas,

Phil Jackson,

Philip Dobson,

Philip Plunkett,

Preston Watamaniuk,

Randall Jahnson,

Randall S. Pitchford II,

Ravinder Singh,

Raymond Swanland,

Rex Baca,

Richard Boon,

Richard Greenspan,

Richard Horvitz,

Richard Moll,

Richard Rouse III,

Rick Johnson,

Rick Li,

Rick McKain,

Ricky Grover,

Rob Bartel,

Robert Berry,

Robert Blye,

Robert Irving,

Robert Jones,

Robert Loftus,

Rohan White,

Romain de Waubert de Genlis,

Ron Festejo,

Ron Fish,

Ron Perlman,

Ronald Millar Sr.,

Rory Little,

Rosalie Kofsky,

Ross Perez,

Russell Kerrison,

Ryuichi Okano,

Sam Coates,

Sam Gray,

Sam Thompson,

Sandra Christiansen,

Sandy Abe,

Sara Verrilli,

Sayo Meynell,

Scot Kramarich,

Scott Burfitt,

Scott Campbell,

Scott Lynch,

Sean Cavanaugh,

Sean Decker,

Sean Letts,

Sean Miller,

Shane Warild,

Shannon Studstill,

Sharon Mann,

Shawn Eustace,

Shawn McPherson,

Sherrie Jackson,

Shigeki Nakadera,

Shigenori Nishikawa,

Shigeomi Okamura,

Shigeru Miyamoto,

Shinichi Matsumoto,

Shinsuke Nagata,

Shinya Miyamoto,

Shinya Nakai,

Shuichi Takano,

Shuji Takagi,

Shunpei Suzuki,

Sid Meier,

Silvio Aebischer,

Simon Fenton,

Simon Mills,

Sousuke Honda,

Stephen Blair,

Stephen Gould,

Steve Burke,

Steve Caterson,

Steve Lam,

Steve Lee,

Steven B. Sargent,

Steven Gilmour,

Steven Kent,

Stig Asmussen,

Stuart Chatwood,

Stuart Harvey,

Stuart Haskayne,

Sucha Singh,

Susan Blakeslee,

Susan Greene,

Takahiro Hamaguchi,

Takashi Kanai,

Takayuki Sameshima,

Takeshi Asano,

Takeshi Nakagawa,

Takeshi Ochiai,

Takeshi Okazawa,

Takeshi Yokouchi,

Takuya Seki,

TAMA,

Tara Saunders,

Tatsuhiko Tachibe,

Tatsuya Minami,

Tatushi Kuriyama,

Ted Newman,

Teppei Ikeda,

Terrence Carson,

Terry Smith,

Tetuya Kawai,

Thierry Prodhomme,

Thomas Arundel,

Thomas Jane,

Tim Bennison,

Tim Larkin,

Tim Neveu,

Tim Schafer,

Tom Abernathy,

Tom Holmes,

Tom Salta,

Tom Skerritt,

Tomas Gillo,

Tommy Tallarico,

Tomoki Asano,

Tomoko Ichikawa,

Tsuyoshi Kobayashi,

Tsuyoshi Tanaka,

Vlad Ceraldi,

Wendi Wills,

Whitney Wade,

William Thompson,

Winifred Phillips,

Winnie Waldron,

Xavier Despas,

Ximo Catala Retortillo,

Yasuhide Kobayashi,

Yasuhiro Kawakama,

Yasuhiro Yamamoto,

Yasuko Shimada,

Yasuyo Hirao,

Yoichiro Tajiri,

Yoshihiko Akita,

Yoshihiko Kurata,

Yoshihiko Wada,

Yoshio Nishimura,

Yoshitaka Ajioka,

Yoshito Kato,

Yosuke Yamashita,

Yuji Horii,

Yuji Shimomura,

Yuji Yamagishi,

Yuji Yamauchi,

Yuki Kyotani,

Yumi Yang,

Yusuke Kan,

Yuta Kimura,

2001-2004

Aaron Garbut,

Aaron Loeb,

Abe Navarro (eligible with permission),

Adam West, "XIII",

Adrian Carmack,

Adrian Perez,

Adrian Selby,

Akihiro Honda,

Akiko Matsui,

Akiko Tange,

Akira Yamaoka,

Alain Turcotte,

Alan Meyerson,

Alejandro Roura,

Alex Horton,

Alexander W. Offermann,

Alexandre Vinet,

Allan Treitz,

Allan Walker,

Andrew Duthie,

Andrew Jones,

Andy Bakken,

Andy Chang,

Antoine Dodens,

Arn ,

Asa Hammond (eligible with permission),

Ashley Cheng,

Asif Chaudhri,

Atsuko Fukuyama,

Atsushi Morioka,

Barry Jackson,

Ben Gunstone,

Ben Lopez (eligible with permission),

Ben Wallace,

Bernie Freidin,

Bertrand Israël,

Brandon Justice (eligible with permission),

Brandon Rose,

Brian Eddy,

Brian Hess,

Brian LeBaron,

Bruce Oberg,

Bruno Rochefort,

Carlos Guerrero,

Casey Hudson,

Catherine Schell,

Charles Gough,

Chikara Ueno,

Chris Butcher,

Chris Carney,

Chris Millar,

Chris Robertson,

Chris Rothwell,

Chris Sigaty,

Chris Silagyi,

Chris Voellmann,

Chris Vrenna (eligible with permission),

Christian Antkow,

Christian Astillero,

Christian Severin (eligible with permission),

Chuck Crist,

Chuck Russom,

Cliff Kondratiuk,

Conor Lumpkin,

Craig Conner,

Craig Filshie,

Curtis R. Cherrington,

Dan Houser,

Daniel Chitan,

Daniel Hagerty,

Danny Richardson,

Dany Joannette,

Darren L. Monahan,

Darren Yager,

Dave Zdyrko (eligible with permission),

David Chabot,

David Dunn,

David Lam,

David Merriman,

Denis Dyack,

Derrick Moore,

DJ Pooh,

Dominic Couture,

Dominic Vincent,

Don Hogan,

Drew Karpyshyn,

Eamon McKenzie,

Ed Boon,

Ed Lima,

Ed Turkington,

Elben Schafers,

Elizabeth Foster Pugh,

Ellerey Gave (eligible with permission),

Emiko Yamamoto,

Éric Bibeau,

Eric Grossman,

Eric Sorenson (eligible with permission),

Eric W. Adams (eligible with permission),

Erick Fernandez,

Euan Forrester,

Francois Coulon,

Francois Emery,

François Queinnec,

François Royer,

Frank Gilson,

Frank Kern (eligible with permission),

Frank Pearce (eligible with permission),

Frédéric Blais,

Frederic Madore,

Fumi Nakashima,

Fumito Ueda,

Gary J. Foreman,

Gene Kohler Jr.,

George Broussard,

George Fidler (eligible with permission),

Goro Kaneko (eligible with permission),

Gozo Kitao,

Greg LoPiccolo,

Greg Vance,

Gregor Eigner (eligible with permission),

Guy Cunis,

Hajime Sugiyama,

Hajime Yashiro,

Hannes Seifert,

Harry Gregson-Williams,

Haruhiko Shikata,

Harvard Bonin,

Heinz Henn (eligible with permission),

Hidenori Iwakiri,

Hideo Kojima,

Hideyuki Kato,

Hiroaki Takenaka,

Hiroaki Yotoriyama,

Hironobu Sakaguchi,

Hiroshi Kuwabara (eligible with permission),

Hirotaka Ishikawa,

Hiroyuki Kobota,

Hisashi Nogami (eligible with permission),

Hugo Dallaire,

Imran Sarwar,

J. David Elton,

Jack Grillo,

James Dargie,

James Grieve,

James Worrall,

Jamie King,

Jamil Dawsari,

Jan Paul van Waveren,

Jason Barnes,

Jason Garwood,

Jason Verhiel,

Jean-Francois Le Quéré,

Jean-Francois Prévost,

Jean-Sebastien Morin,

Jean-Thierry Roy,

Jeff Johnston,

Jeffrey J. Thomas,

Jennifer Gallo (eligible with permission),

Jeremy Pope,

Jeremy Strauser,

Jill Goodall,

Jim Dose,

Joe Bonar,

John Baez,

John Carmack,

John Haime,

John Newton,

John Podlasek,

John Twigg,

Jonathan Knight,

Jonathan Wright,

Jordan Mechner,

Joseph Nasrallah,

Joseph Staten,

Josh Holmes,

Josh Randall,

Julio Torres,

Julio Valladares,

Junji Hata,

Kaihei Hayano,

Kärtsy Hatakka (eligible with permission),

Karyn DePetris,

Katsuhiko Abe,

Katsuya Eguchi (eligible with permission),

Kaweh Kazemi,

Kazuhiro Numata,

Kazuki Muraoka,

Kazunori Yamauchi,

Ken Balthaser,

Ken George,

Ken Matsumoto,

Ken Murphy,

Ken Ogasawara,

Kengo Sasaoka (eligible with permission),

Kenji Kaido,

Kenji Miki,

Kenneth Chan,

Kenneth Scott,

Kenny Ilko,

Kevin Cloud,

Kevin Hoare,

Kevin Osburn,

Kimmo Kajasto (eligible with permission),

Kirby Fong,

Kirsten Forbes,

Koh Onda,

Kyle Cooper (eligible with permission),

Kyle Peschel,

Larry LaPierre,

Lars Gustavsson,

Lawrence Sparling,

LeRoy Strauss,

Leslie Benzies,

Lindsay Gray,

Luci Black (eligible with permission),

Luis Ramirez,

Lysanne Martin,

Maki Kirioka,

Makoto Akashi (eligible with permission),

Makoto Tsuchibayashi,

Marc Desfossés,

Margaret Ng,

Mark Besner,

Mark E. Kern,

Mark Mahler,

Markus Maki,

Martin Sevigny,

Martin Sikes,

Marty O'Donnell,

Masaaki Hoshino,

Masafumi Miyamoto,

Masahiro Yoshinaga (eligible with permission),

Masamichi Abe (eligible with permission),

Mat Noguchi,

Mathieu Ferland,

Mathieu Laforce,

Matt Segur,

Matt Underwood (eligible with permission),

Matthew Armstrong,

Matthew Clarke,

Mehdi Daou El Makane,

Michael Evans,

Michael Gallo,

Michael McHale,

Michael Verdu,

Michel Ancel,

Mihoko Ishii,

Mike Benton,

Mike Simpson,

Mike Sneath,

Mike Vlad Cora,

Mikiko Takeda,

Mitsuhiro Shimooki,

Mitsumasa Fujita,

Miyako Kato,

Mizuki Muramatsu,

Mohamed Gambouz,

Mounir Riday,

Muneaki Kubota,

Nanako Ohmura,

Naoki Mori (eligible with permission),

Nate Fox,

Nathalie Dubois,

Nathan Plewes (eligible with permission),

Nathan Rose,

Navid Khonsari,

Nicolas Carré,

Nicolas Soulier,

Nicole Nokes (eligible with permission),

Nicole Willick,

Niklas Persson,

Norihiko Hibino,

Noriko Wada,

Omar Morsy,

Pascal Herold,

Patrick Beland,

Patrick Larkin,

Patrick Pelletier,

Patrick Tassé,

Patrick Thomas,

Paulo Garcia,

Peter Fonda,

Peter Hickman,

Peter Marks,

Peter Wyse,

Petri Jarvilehto,

Phil Frazier,

Phil Ibis,

Randall S. Pitchford II

Raphaël Lacoste,

Ray Liotta,

Raymond Usher,

Reid Schneider,

Renaud Sebbane, </