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Lennie Moore
Lennie Moore is an American composer and conductor of music for video games, film, television, and multimedia. Biography Moore is best known as the composer of the 1999 video game ''Outcast (video game), Outcast'', and most recently, the ''Watchmen Motion Comic'' episodic web series. He has composed music on ten films, orchestrated for other composers on dozens of feature films and television movies, over 125 commercials, in addition to many video games including ''Outcast (video game), Outcast'' (2000 nominee for Best Music by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences), ''Magic the Gathering: Duel of the Planeswalkers'', ''Dirty Harry (canceled video game), Dirty Harry'' (unreleased), ''Dragonshard'', ''The Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring'', and additional music for ''Snoopy vs. the Red Baron (video game), Snoopy vs. the Red Baron'' and ''The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian''. Lennie recently won a G.A.N.G. Award for the Watchmen Motion Comic web series. He also teache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USC Thornton School Of Music
The USC Thornton School of Music is a private music school in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1884 only four years after the University of Southern California, the Thornton School is the oldest continually operating arts institution in Los Angeles. The school is located on the University of Southern California#Campus, USC University Park Campus, south of Downtown Los Angeles. The Thornton School is noted for blending the rigors of a traditional conservatory-style education with a forward-looking approach to training the next generation of musicians. Highly regarded internationally, the school is widely ranked as one of the top 10 schools of music in the United States. History The USC Thornton School of Music was founded in 1884 and dedicated in 1999. It was named in honor of philanthropist Flora L. Thornton following a $25 million gift from her foundation. At the time, this was the largest donation to a school of music in the United States. In 2006, she donated an additiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global Offensive
''Counter-Strike: Global Offensive'' (''CS:GO'') is a 2012 multiplayer tactical first-person shooter developed by Valve and Hidden Path Entertainment. It is the fourth game in the ''Counter-Strike'' series. Developed for over two years, ''Global Offensive'' was released for OS X, PlayStation 3, Windows, and Xbox 360 in August 2012, and for Linux in 2014. In December 2018, Valve transitioned the game to a free-to-play model, focusing on revenue from cosmetic items. The game pits two teams, Terrorists and Counter-Terrorists, against each other in different objective-based game modes. The most common game modes involve the Terrorists planting a bomb while Counter-Terrorists attempt to stop them, or Counter-Terrorists attempting to rescue hostages that the Terrorists have captured. There are nine official game modes, all of which have distinct characteristics specific to that mode. The game also has matchmaking support that allows players to play on dedicated Valve servers, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visual Concepts
Visual Concepts Entertainment is an American video game developer based in Novato, California. Founded in May 1988, the company is best known for developing Sports video game, sports games in the ''2K'' franchise, most recently ''NBA 2K'' and ''WWE 2K'', and previously ''NFL 2K''. Visual Concepts was acquired by Sega in May 1999 and sold to Take-Two Interactive in January 2005. The acquisition of the company led Take-Two Interactive to open their 2K (company), 2K label which Visual Concepts became part of, on the day following the acquisition. As of December 2018, the company employs more than 350 people. History Visual Concepts was founded in 1988 by Video game programmer, programmer Scott Patterson and brothers Greg and Jeff Thomas, and was originally based in a small office above a bank in Novato, California. On January 25, 1995, Electronic Arts announced that they had acquired a stake in the company. In September 1997, Sega announced their intentions to acquire the compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
