Full Name Babak Rafei Nationality Iranian-American | Years active 1995–present Name Bob Rafei | |
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Born 1969 ( 1969 ) Alma mater Parson's School of Design ’91 Occupation Art director, character animator, concept artist Employer Naughty Dog (1995–2007) Organization Big Red Button Entertainment, Inc. (CEO) Residence Playa del Rey, California, United States Education Bachelor of Fine Arts, Illustration | ||
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Babak "Bob" Rafei (Persian: بابک رافعی) is an Iranian-American video game art director, character animator and concept artist. He is the CEO of Big Red Button Entertainment, a video game development studio he co-founded with Jeff Lander in 2009.
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Rafei is also an advisory board member for Game Developers Conference and Game Developers Choice Awards, as well as panel leader of Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences's achievement awards category on art Direction and contributing writer of Animation Magazine and Animation World Network.
A graduate of Parson's School of Design, Rafei was an employee of Naughty Dog, joining them in early 1995 to work on Crash Bandicoot. Other notable works include Jak and Daxter, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, and Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric.
Rafei previously worked on album cover arts for A&M Records, most notably Blues Traveler's Travelers and Thieves.
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