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Chris joined the Army active duty in 1979 and continued in the Reserves for 40 years retiring in 2020.
Attended College of DuPage, Joliet Junior College and Lake County College (1983-1986) in Illinois, to focus on attaining a degree in arts or engineering. Being a Combat Engineer in the Army led to “Draftsman” in the Combat Engineers Army Reserve. While at Joliet Junior college engineering class featuring the very first version of AutoCAD the instructor gave out numbers and said, “make the picture” and then gave out the picture and said, “give me the numbers.” Drawing pictures in AutoCAD was not very appealing. Graphic artist seemed to be the way to go.
The solution, reenlist in the 305th Army PSYOPS (Psychological Operations) as a “Illustrator” drawing the pictures on “Leaflet Bombs.” In 1987 Chris took the first Adobe Illustrator class at College of DuPage (version 1 Illustrator 88). Answering an Ad for learning “Professional Television Production” featured a one week Class-Seminar by famed Chicago Underground TV personality Howie Samuelson. Howie explained all about Public Access TV.
Having discovered Public Access Television led to a meeting in 1989 of famed Chicago Music Television producer Jerry Bryant of JBTV. Joining the JBTV studio in 1990 completed the switch from print graphics to broadcast design and special effects compositing. Networking with Video Game Studio Run and Gun, producer Grady Sain cast Chris Carter as Captain of the Smokejumpers in the pioneering video Game Duelin’ Firemen.
At JBTV Music Television. Chris did graphics and was the cameraman for artist interviews Including such classics as John Lydon, Ahmet and Dweezil Zappa, Bjork, George Clinton, INXS, Joey Ramone, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Midnight Oil, They Might Be Giants. Jeff Buckley, Liz Phair, Tori Amos, Henry Rollins, the first three Lollapoolza's and many more.
Reviews
Duelin' Firemen! (2000)
Duelin Firemen Trip Hawkins
Duelin Firemen brings together music, and a love of sort of campy low-budget humor. It's highly stylized, the whole premise is ridiculously absurdist. The pioneering 3DO Game has a beautiful primary hue, and its stocked to the gills with a lot of folks who can inform your cultural leanings. 3DO creatorTrip Hawkins was at the studio one day. I should have talked to him but I didn't know who he was. Trip Hawkins was the Director of Strategy and Marketing at Apple Computer in 1982 when he left to found Electronic Arts (EA) video game publisher. One of Hawkins first big wins was to sign the late John Madden as a spokesperson and a consultant to his company's football game which would eventually lead to the popular Madden NFL series of video games.
Hawkins transitioned from EA in 1991 to form 3DO video game console company. 3DO was formed in partnership with several other companies including EA. Upon its release in 1993, the 3DO was the most powerful video game console at the time. It was also expensive. Sales were poor due to its exorbitant price. Hopes for the system were further damaged in 1994 with the arrival of the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn, both of which were more expensive than the 3DO but had more modern hardware and stronger first party support. While acknowledging the 3DO's failure in the marketplace, Next Generation listed Hawkins in their "75 Most Important People in the Games Industry of 1995", calling him "one of the game market's visionaries."