Lisette Titre-Montgomery

Lisette Titre-Montgomery (Born June 21, 1977) is an American video game artist and designer. She has worked at Backbone Entertainment, EA Games, Ubisoft and currently works for Double Fine Productions. Titre is also involved in promoting diversity in video games and computer programming.

Lisette Titre-Montgomery
Born (1977-06-21) June 21, 1977
NationalityAmerican
OccupationVideo game artist

Biography

Titre was born on June 21, 1977.[1] She had been both a gamer and an artist from a young age.[2] After seeing Toy Story, she was inspired to study computer animation.[2] Titre graduated with a degree in computer animation from Miami International University of Art and Design in 2000.[1][3] Titre currently lives in Oakland and is married to Marcus Montgomery.[1]

Career

Titre's first animation job was working in 2001 as a character modeler for the game, Freekstyle.[4] Working on Freekstyle helped her land a job as a senior character and special effects artist at EA Games around 2005.[4] She worked on Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2007 as her first project at EA.[4] Other games she helped develop were The Simpsons Game, The Godfather II and Dante's Inferno.[4] In 2011, she left EA Games and went on to become the lead artist at Backbone Entertainment.[1] At Backbone, she worked on Zombie Apocalypse: Never Die Alone and Midway Arcade Origins.[1] Titre returned to EA Games in 2013, where she worked on Dance Central 3 and The Sims 4.[1]

Around 2015, Titre started working as the manager of the art and computer animation department for Ubisoft.[5] Titre was invited to the 2016 White House LGBTQ Tech and Innovation briefing.[4] Starting in 2017, Titre became the art manager at Double Fine Productions, where she has worked on Psychonauts 2.[4]

Titre is a member of Blacks In Gaming, a nonprofit group that provides networking and collaboration opportunities for African Americans working in the gaming industry.[3] She is also involved in Black Girls Code and Girls Who Code.[1] She was featured in Essence in 2018 in an article called "15 Black Women Who Are Paving the Way in STEM and Breaking Barriers."[6]

References
  1. Taylor, Quintard (2018-07-15). "Lisette Titre (1977- )". BlackPast. Retrieved 2019-02-28.
  2. Martin, Michel (19 February 2013). "Changing The Game In Video Gaming". NPR.org. Retrieved 2019-02-20.
  3. Talbert, Marcia Wade (1 March 2011). "5 Top Black Women in STEM". Black Enterprise. 41 (8): 71. Archived from the original on 4 November 2018.
  4. Meagan, Marie (2018). Women in Gaming: 100 Professionals of Play. Indianapolis, IN: DK/Prima Games. pp. 138–139. ISBN 0744019532. OCLC 1077268602.
  5. Bort, Julie. "23 of the most powerful women engineers in the world". Business Insider. Archived from the original on 15 May 2015. Retrieved 2019-02-20.
  6. Harris, Marquita K. (13 February 2018). "15 Black Women Who Are Paving The Way In STEM And Breaking Barriers". Essence. Archived from the original on 25 February 2018. Retrieved 2019-02-25.
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