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Torfi Frans Ólafsson
Senior Producer of EVE Online, CCP Games, and has worked as 3d modeler, lead artist, and graphics programmer at the company since 1999.
Torfi Frans Ólafsson has been with CCP Games since 1999, wearing many hats as the company has grown from seven people in three rooms to over 180 in three continents. Having worked as 3d modeler, lead artist, and graphics programmer, he now works as Senior Producer of EVE Online. Previously, Torfi was a 3D artist with OZ.com, building virtual worlds. His main work at OZ was on 3d models of Van Gogh's paintings for Intel's Artmuseum.net. Prior, he was the Webmaster and Systems Administrator for Bjork.com at One Little Indian Records, London.
Torfi has an extensive background in video post-production, has directed several music videos and short films and is an avid robotics hobbyist.
CCP Games is an industry-leading independent developer and publisher of EVE Online, a massively-multiplayer online role-playing game. Founded in 1997 and privately held, CCP is recognized internationally as a pioneer of the single-server persistent universe architecture. EVE Online is played in nearly every country in the world with over 160,000 players. The company’s headquarters are in Reykjavík, Iceland with offices in Atlanta, London and Shanghai.
Torfi is a participant in a collaborative project between the Center for Analysis and Design of Intelligent Agents (CADIA) and CCP that received a Grant of Excellence (Icelandic Research Fund) for 2008-2010. The goal of the project is to develop new methods to create believable human behavior in animated characters for massively multiplayer games. The focus is on natural motion and believable social interaction. The approach involves scientific, engineering and artistic components.
