Biography

Cumron Ashtiani

Midway Newcastle

Cumron joined the games industry as an Artist/Animator in the mid 90’s to work on PS1 and Sega Saturn titles having previously worked as a freelance CG artist. He has now worked in the games industry for over a decade and has directed artwork for 3 generations of consoles.Over the last 9 years Cumron has primarily been in roles involving art direction and management, working for game development companies: TCM, Gremlin/Infogrames, Computer Artworks, Black Cactus, Kuju Entertainment and his own art production company Helium  Graphics ltd.He has contributed artwork and art direction on many projects, most notably "The Thing" for Vivendi Universal and the "Battalion Wars" series for Nintendo.Cumron is currently the Studio Art Director at Midway's Newcastle studio where he provides art direction for various high profile action titles including Midway's upcoming Hollywood style, car chase blockbuster "Wheelman" starring Vin Diesel.

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