Charles Michael "Chuck" Carter is a video game and film artist. He and
Robyn Miller
Robyn Charles Miller (born August 6, 1966) is an American video game designer who is the co-founder of Cyan Worlds with brother Rand Miller. He served as co-designer of the popular computer game ''Myst'', which held the title of best-selling co ...
, designed and rendered the environments in the video game ''
Myst
''Myst'' is a 1993 adventure video game developed by Cyan and published by Broderbund for Mac OS. In the game, the player travels via a special book to a mysterious island called Myst. The player interacts with objects and traverses the ...
''.
After ''Myst'', he was an artist for
Westwood's ''
Command & Conquer
''Command & Conquer'' (''C&C'') is a real-time strategy (RTS) video game franchise created and originally developed by Westwood Studios and currently owned by Electronic Arts. The first game was one of the earliest of the RTS genre, itself ba ...
'' and
''Command & Conquer: Red Alert'' series and a digital matte painter on the television series
Babylon 5
''Babylon 5'' is an American space opera television series created by writer and producer J. Michael Straczynski, under the Babylonian Productions label, in association with Straczynski's Synthetic Worlds Ltd. and Warner Bros. Domestic Tel ...
.
His digital art clients, include
Disney
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,
NASA
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,
National Geographic
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,
Scientific American
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, and
BBC
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.
In 2017 Chuck founded his own video game studio,
Eagre Games, and released the video game ''
ZED'' in June 2019. In September of 2021, Chuck joined
Standard Magic, a virtual and augmented reality startup based in Maine as Creative Director.
References
External links
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Classic Game Postmortem: MystChuck CarterThe Strange Gears
Video game designers
Cyan Worlds people
Living people
1957 births
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