I'm a game designer

OK, not quite, but close. I've been working for Nike for 3.5 years as a production artist for licensed and promo apparel. When people ask what I do for a living I respond, "I draw jerseys". Among a plethora of other design, production and technical geekery I draw catalog line art of both on-court and retail apparel for teams that are sponsored by Nike. I've had the privilege of working on Team Apparel (think blanks that high schools order), Federation and Club Soccer, and now College Basketball. From time to time our sports marketing guys will come 'round begging for a disc of uniform images to send to EA. I've fired off discs for the FIFA series and I'm assuming they made it to EA because the jerseys look accurate in game. Today was a bit different, though. The sports marketing guys for basketball are on vacation. They fired up their crackberries and hooked me up straight with the artist at EA. I spent the afternoon gathering uniform line art for the coming season and sending it straight to EA for NCAA 08 March Madness. I'm usually not big on sports games, but considering the quarters I pumped into NBA Jam I may just have to give this bball game a go. Maybe I can finagle a free copy...

On another note, my EksBocks 180 is dying. The disc drive won't open. I have to use the manual eject to get it to open. Once it's open it'll close as normal and read just fine. Fortunately my 360 is due back from rehab tomorrow.