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Atomhawk Design Ltd was founded in 2009 by four highly talented and experienced industry veterans from the legendary Midway Games Inc. Led by Director, Cumron Ashtiani, the company strives to provide the conceptual design and art production services in the digital media sector. As a team, we fully understand what it takes to compete in the entertainment and digital online sectors. Our clients need the most creative art and design work, executed to the highest standards possible in order to stay ahead of their competition.

No small task but luckily we are here to help.

Our services range from precisely following a clients direction, through to developing ideas and artistic style ourselves on a clients behalf. We provide this flexible and creative service across 2D/3D artwork, video production, storyboards, GUI design, style guide development and web content. Not only working with clients on their existing projects as a specialist provider, but also helping to create new ideas when working in creative partnership with the client.

At Atomhawk, we always ensure that we understand our client’s needs through regular phone and e-mail contact, plus on-site face-to-face review meetings.
Cumron Ashtiani Cumron Ashtiani - Director

Prior to Atomhawk, Cumron worked for a number of high profile game development studios during his 14 year career. During the last 10 years, he has focused on artistic/creative direction and management across all platforms, playing a key role in the running of several studios and in the development of 11 shipped titles.

Cumron has provided art and creative direction from initial concept and development right through to the product end phase including marketing campaigns, POS assets, Web and TV advertising.

As well as being Company Director at Atomhawk, he is responsible for the creative direction of our internal projects, and for quality control of the work we do for clients. Cumron also has a wealth of experience in all aspects of game and interactive product development and is also an accomplished 2D and 3D artist.

Amy Hill Amy Hill - Office Manager/Production Associate

Amy joined Atomhawk as our Office Manager and Production Associate back in July 2010 having worked with us back at Midway.

Amy has several years experience in the games industry, that coupled with special powers of organisation help keep the studio running smoothly. If that isn't enough, she is also handles project management and client liaison.

Pete Thompson Pete Thompson - Lead Concept Artist

Pete joined the games industry in 2000, having already had a successful career as a freelance illustrator in the publishing, music and comic book sectors.
Pete has all the skills needed to fully visualize any AAA production and is fast becoming one of the UK's leading conceptual artists. During his time at Midway, he produced concept art, storyboards, marketing artwork and matte paintings for TD Overdrive™, LA Rush™ and Wheelman™.

Throughout the production of Wheelman™, Pete delivered a whole host of concept pieces that fully illustrated the feel and look of the game and also took on the role of Marketing Illustrator, producing posters, promo art and box art for the game. Pete has often worked closely with Hollywood during his career and most recently worked with Vin Diesel’s company, Tigon.

Corlen Kruger Corlen Kruger - Lead Concept Artist

Corlen has 9 years industry experience, working on multiple platforms and media. He has amassed a variety of styles and skills to bring every project to life. Starting as a concept artist at I-Imagine interactive, he was quickly promoted to Lead Artist for the PSP title Final Armada™. Moving over to Europe, he worked on War Devil™ before joining Midway to work on their flagship title, Wheelman™.

Corlen not only delivers concept art in 2D format but is also well trained in 3D packages like 3DS Max and Z-Brush. Using these in combination with 2D art, he delivers concepts that are understood across the entire development discipline, which is the key to making pre-vis art that is actually achievable during production.

Apart from producing concept art he also contributes to various publications and digital media, and has won numerous accolades including Winner of the New Age Gaming cover art competition in 2002, he won the regional illustration competition The Battle held by GameHorizon in Newcastle and was invited to submit work for the elite 3rd publication of Expose Art book. He has recently has work published by Brand Studio Press.

Steven Pick Steven Pick - Lead Graphic Designer

Steve has worked in the industry for almost 12 years, first starting work with Jester Interactive on Super Trucks™ before being a major influence on the interface and icon design of Music 3000™, as well as creation of many of the 2D and 3D movie segments.

Following that, Steve was the Lead Environment Artist on TT Superbikes™ researching, overseeing and creating all building/structural assets and also produced early interface concepts for the title. It was at this point that Steve started to specialize in GUI and graphic design.

In May 2004, Steve moved to Checkmate Solutions as a Lead Artist, lending his graphic design expertise to the user interface design for several eJay™ titles. When Steve joined Midway Newcastle at the start of 2006, he helped to refine and rebrand the user interface on the PSP version of LA Rush™ before designing, implementing and animating all UI and branding graphics on Wheelman™. Steve has a BA (Hons) degree in Design and Animation.

Dan Gilmore Dan Gilmore - Graphic Designer

A super-talented graphic designer who recently graduated from Northumbria Universiity, Dan has freelance experience working with clients such as Mars, Unilever, Philips Design, Lego and Hasbro.

Dan has a MA with Commendation in Multidisciplinary Design Innovation and a 1st Class BA (Hons) in Design for Industry.

Charlie Bowater Charlie Bowater - Concept Artist

Charlie is an exceptionally talented concept artist who has found great critical success with her extremely popular DeviantArt page, which has so far attracted over 1 million page views.

Her work has also been featured on numerous concept art sites as well as in Imagine FX magazine. Charlie is certainly one to watch for the future.

Roberto F. Castro Charlie Bowater - Concept Artist

Roberto has a well-documented, award-winning background in architecture and previsualisation and is proving a useful addition to our creative powerhouse.

His work has already been published in the Digital Art Masters series, 2DArtist Magazine and the Digital Painting Techniques series.

Shaun Mooney Shaun Mooney - Concept Artist

Shaun Mooney joins Atomhawk's expert concept art team from Travellers Tales. Shaun brings a wealth of experience, and has previously worked on Lego™ Star Wars™, Lego™ Batman™ and Lego™ Indiana Jones™.

We're already really impressed with his skills and some of his work will be appearing in our website gallery soon.

Tim Hill Tim Hill - Concept Artist

Tim has a first class degree in Games Design and joins us from award winning software developer, Travellers Tales, where he worked on titles including Lego™ Indiana Jones™ and Lego™ Batman™.

Francesco Lorenzetti Francesco Lorenzetti - Concept Artist

Francesco has come all the way from Switzerland, via the illustrious Gnomon School of Visual Effects in LA, bringing over five years experience as a freelance illustrator and adding further international flavour to the Atomhawk team.

Sarah Morris Sarah Morris - Junior Artist

Sarah's most recent projects include creating concept art and game content for a portfolio of live browser-based MMORPGs. She brings with her a diverse range of 2D and animation skills.