CGSociety and Ballistic Publishing are pleased to announce that Neil Eskuri has joined the EXPOSÉ 5 Advisory Board. Eskuri brings a wealth of industry experience to the team. He has worked on movies with MetroLight Studios, Rhythm & Hues and Sony Pictures Imageworks for 17 years, pulling credits and awards for work done for blockbusters like ‘Total Recall’ and ‘Last Action Hero’, as Visual Effects Supervisor.
Neil was later hired by Disney Feature Animation for the new ‘Fantasia – 2000’ as Animator and CG Supervisor before moving on to be the Digital Supervisor for ‘Dinosaur’ and ‘Treasure Planet’. Neil Eskuri is now Senior Art Director at Electronic Arts. In his spare time, he is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences - AMPAS.
Neil came to Electronic Arts as Senior Art Director for ‘Need for Speed - Underground 2’, ‘SSX - On Tour’, and currently ‘Need for Speed – Carbon’. Neil Eskuri is on tour through the Asia Pacific with Autodesk when we catch up. He is clearly excited about the ‘Need For Speed: Carbon’ project. Passionate about how far the EA team has come to develop such an exciting product. It hadn’t always been that way though. “Games were the farthest thing from my mind,” he espouses, “but I thought I'd check it out anyway since some of the recent games I'd seen were promising. When I flew up to EA for a weekend tour, I was surprised with the operation and what they were looking to do. I realized that the confluence between motion pictures and games wasn't far off the horizon that completely turned me around. When I got home, it was everything my wife and I talked about. So, in less that two months, I was working on my first game.”
