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Oddworld Inhabitants Inc. is an American video game, film and television company founded in 1994 by special-effects and computer-animation veterans Sherry McKenna and Lorne Lanning. The company is primarily known for the Oddworld, series of video games about the fictional planet of Oddworld and its native creatures.
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Lorne Lanning was an artist looking for a medium. He started out at New York’s prestigious School of Visual Arts as a photorealistic painter before transferring across the country to Cal Arts and graduating with a degree in character animation. This cross-disciplinary training led him to a career in the nascent computer animation industry, working ...
Coming from a Hollywood background, storytelling was key to Lanning’s vision. Previous console games had dabbled in narrative with cutscenes and text, but the data storage of the PlayStation’s CD-ROM disks meant that developers could include full-motion video, realistic audio, and more. One thing it couldn’t do, however, was 3D graphics to the qual...
There was a lot of lore behind the scenes of the first Oddworld game. Lanning and his crew wanted to use the booming medium of video games to make a point about the real world we lived in, the crisis of capitalism, the natural environment and more. It was intended to be the first in a tetralogy, each with its own setting and protagonist. But the ne...
Surprisingly, EA then offered to purchase Oddworld Inhabitants and all of its intellectual property straight up, a deal Lanning declined. Instead, he pursued an audit against the publisher that allegedly revealed millions in unpaid royalties. Lanning made a deal to forgo the money in exchange for EA granting them the rights to the game back, but by...
Technology was always the barrier to the rich and detailed world Lanning wanted to create, so working with modern consoles allowed him to add a second layer of polish to his earlier efforts. Just Add Water shepherded a 2010 port of Stranger’s Wrath to Steamand PS3, followed by the earlier games. But a new generation of players deserved something be...
Oddworld.com is the official site for the Oddworld games, including Oddworld: Soulstorm, out now on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4 and the Epic Games Store.
Oddworld: New 'n' Tasty is a ground-up remake of the original Abe's Oddysee, out now on PlayStation 4! www.oddworld.com/nnt "Abe's as gloriously emotive as he ever was!"
Oddworld Inhabitants (also known as OWI) is a United States based video game developing and film making company that was founded in 1994 by special effects and computer animation veterans Sherry McKenna and Lorne Lanning.
Oddworld is a series of cinematic platforming videogames set on a fictional planet of the same name. The franchise is produced by Oddworld Inhabitants under the direction of Lorne Lanning. Many real world themes important to Lorne Lanning form the foundation for the series' storyline.
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Jun 20, 2015 · Lorne Lanning co-founded Oddworld Inhabitants along with Sherry McKenna in 1994 and over the next ten years saw firsthand how publishers exploited independent game studios, locking them into...
