Christian Lichtner joined the D3 Team in early 2009, and serves as the Art Director for Diablo III.
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Background
Christian was a well-known comic book artist for a decade before he entered the gaming industry. He is best known in the comic world as co-founder of Liquid!, a revolutionary comic book coloring/art studio. Christian moved into the gaming industry around 2006, where he worked on Darksiders: Wrath of War, before joining Blizzard after taking sometime off.
Christian first revealed as the new D3 Art Director at Blzzcon 2009, where he spoke on a Diablo 3 panel and participated in a number of media interviews.
His Art and Websites
Unlikely virtually everyone else working on the D3 team, Christian's work was fairly well-known before he joined the D3 Team. A great deal of his work can be seen on his various home pages, as well as countless published works. He subjected himself to a fair number of interviews in his comic days, that that public presence and outgoing nature came to an end once he joined Blizzard, per company policy.
- His official comic book company's website.
- His deviantart page, with numerous art samples.
- His MySpace page.
- His full comic book resume, as an artist, colorist and penciler.
- A short interview about his work and inspirations with a comic book blogger.
Blizzard Interviews
As a designer on D3 Team, Christian handled a fair amount of media at Blizzcon 2009.
- Interviewed by AtomicMPC along with Leonard Boyarsky.
- Christian and Leonard in a video interview with Gamespot.
- Christian participated in the BlizzCon 2009 Panel: Diablo 3 Open Q and A.
Links
A piece by Christian from 2008, before he was hired by Blizzard.