Christopher M. Hunt

This article is about video game art director Christopher M. Hunt. You may be looking for Fantasy Flight Games writer Christopher Hunt.

Christopher M. Hunt is a seasoned American video game art director, as well as self-defense instructor and 3rd Degree Black Belt in Krav Maga Worldwide, who has experience working on a number of Star Wars games.^[1] Hunt was hired by Pandemic Studios under Electronic Arts in July 2001, where he served as a "Senior 3D Artist" for one year, working on Star Wars: The Clone Wars during this time, before he was promoted to "Lead Artist" in 2002, and then promoted again to "Art Director" another year later in May 2003. As art director, Hunt would be heavily involved with 2004's Star Wars: Battlefront, remaining with Pandemic Studios until they were shut down in late 2009/early 2010.^[2]

After working as an art director between a other few companies, including Microsoft and Piranha Games, Inc., Hunt would be hired by The Walt Disney Company in 2017, where he would once again be assigned as an art director on a Star Wars project.^[2] This time, he would head the Star Wars: Jedi Challenges Virtual/Augmented Reality (AR/VR) experience and its subsequent expansions,^[3] a collaborative effort between Disney and tech developer/distributor Lenovo.^[4] He was especially influential in the finalized state of the "Dark Side Expansion," stating in an interview with StarWars.com, "We started to formulate a plan on the update being centered on lightsaber combat, with adding new characters and a little bit of a twist on how you wield a lightsaber and who you are while you're playing."^[3] Hunt would leave Disney in December 2019 to work for Riot Games, Inc., and is now an art director at Meta while also continuing to instruct in Krav Maga.^[2]