Senior Technical Artist Artem Batayev, who previously worked at Crytek and Pixagon Games, was killed in the war with Russia. He joined the Defense Forces as a sniper.
Senior Technical Artist Artem Batayev, who previously worked at Crytek and Pixagon Games, was killed in the war with Russia. He joined the Defense Forces as a sniper.
This was reported by Bataev’s former colleague Andrey Mikhailov, with whom they worked together at Ulysses Graphics.
«Last week, Ukraine lost another wonderful person and my former colleague. This is Artem Batayev, a technical artist in ordinary life who became a sniper when the war began. He was well known at Crytek, Blackwood Games, Ulysses Graphics, Pixagon,» wrote Mikhailov, who currently works as a 3D Artist at Machinegames.
Artem Batayev’s LinkedIn page states that he studied at Luhansk National University. In May 2012, he started working as a Technical Artist at Crytek, the studio known for the Crysis franchise. There, he rose through the ranks to become a Senior Technical Artist.
He later worked in these positions at Blackwood Games and Ulysses Graphics. Before Artem’s full-scale invasion, Batayev worked at the Kyiv studio Pixagon Games, which was founded by people from the Kyiv office of Crytek.
The editorial staff of dev.ua expresses its condolences to the family and friends of Artem Bataev.
