HENRY LABOUNTA

  Director of Art, EA Games

As Director of Art for EA Games, Academy Award® nominee Henry LaBounta uses his 20+ years in animated digital effects and applies them in his overseeing the visual look of EA’s next generation games. Working with the teams to set the visual targets,
partnering with the tools & technology group and working directly with game producers, LaBounta spends most of his time working with a talented team of artists and designers on pre-production and visual development. LaBounta recently completed work on EA’s new highly rated game “Skate” while he consulted with “Burnout Paradise” and “Need for Speed Pro Street”.

LaBounta came to EA via PDI/DreamWorks, where he supervised visual effects for the Steven Spielberg film “Minority Report”. Other recent film credits include “A.I.”, “Mission Impossible 2” and “Forces of Nature”. He originally joined DreamWorks in 1996 to supervise the climactic Red Sea sequence in “The Prince of Egypt”.

Prior to joining DreamWorks he worked at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) on many feature films including: “Twister”, “Casper” and “Star Trek VII Generations.”! Prior to working at ILM, LaBounta did award-winning broadcast and commercial work in New York and Atlanta.

In 1996, LaBounta was nominated for an Academy Award® for designing the look and techniques for the tornadoes and related effects on “Twister.”! In the same year, he was awarded the BAFTA (British Academy Award®) for his work on that film.