My name is Krystin E. Moore and most often go by the Japanese nickname, Ookamiko; translated it means “Wolf Child.”I hope that explains this site's name as well as my logo.
I grew up in the dryness that is Eastern Washington, USA. Yes, Washington the sate, not D.C. and no, not Seattle. We on the East side traded in all our rain and pine trees for desert and tumbleweeds. We think they’re much cooler anyway.
I personally enjoy playing sports, drawing, journalism, photography, listening to and playing music traveling and gaming. In short I hate sitting still and peruse a passion not only in doing what I like to do, but learning more about what makes up those things.
My personality itself is very easy going most of the time. I’m mild mannered, tomboyish and many of my closest friends would say I’m just “one of the guys.”
I was a self taught 2-D artist and had not taken any serious art classes until the age of 19 when I decided to take my art studies to a more serious level. This led me to the Art Institute of Vancouver in Vancouver British Columbia, Canada. I believe that a person will learn their best when put outside their comfort level where they’re forced to adapt. I did just that. It was here I got a lot of new insight and I first got to see my art make leaps and bounds. This was also where I was first introduced to 3D modeling. I was skeptical at first but the more I learned, the more I liked it. I’m still a novice at modeling but hope to become a character modeler in the future.
My decision to pursue Game Art was driven by my love to create art as well as work with a variety of people who shared that same passion and desire to see a project from start to finish.
In fall of 2006, a small group of us got together and worked on a mod for the Unreal2004 engine. This was the first time many of us had ever done a project of this kind. It was here I got my first taste of the game development process. What a roller coaster it is, but at the very end of our 6 month course we were able to stand back and see something we built from scratch come to life. It’s an uplifting feeling seeing the entire team’s efforts come to fruition. It’s that kind of feeling I live for.
Art is never complete in my eyes, because there is always something you can do better. It’s a lifelong learning process, from concept to completion.