Four EA Tiburon Artists Form The Ballistic Pixel Lab

Four veteran artists from Electronic Arts’ Tiburon studio, Donnie Worley, Greg Jobes, Eric Kohler, and Jason Hayes, have resigned to start a new company with fellow EA alum Dave Mathieu, who left recently and serves as president. The new outfit, The Ballistic Pixel Lab, will sell post-production services to the game and advertising industries: 3D modeling and animation, 2D art, effects work, cinematics, video editing, logo design, storyboarding, and web design and development.

The group’s credits run through some of EA’s biggest sellers, including Madden 97, 98, and 99, NCAA Football 98 and 99, and March Madness 98, plus other titles still in development, and their art has appeared in Intelligent Gamer, PSX Magazine, Game Informer, EGM, and Nintendo Power. That’s a lot of senior art talent walking out one door at the same time.