Armin Barkawitz

Head of Graphics Art Director @Ubisoft

During the Settlers 7 production, I was responsible for the art department, the production planning and feedback process for externel artists. I did a lot of concept work and outsourcing management as well. Since 2010 I am leading artist at the online team, doing art direction, art assets, recruitment and outsourcing management for our online games. We finished the Settlers Online browsergame recently, which soon became the most successful Browser game in Germany. My newest project is Anno Online, which will soon go to open beta status. Just feel free to have a quick look at client download needed).We are also working on new Titles.Our product “The Settlers Online” was awarded at the german games award as the “Best Browser Game of the year” and was especially praised for its artistic direction and its technical execution in terms of graphical rendering quality showing an enormous amount of details. They continued that “No other game creates such great and smooth visuals and therefore sets itself apart from competition.”On August 2011, we won the computec games award for the best browser/social game 2011 with The Settlers Online.The readers of PC Games voted \"Die Siedler Online\" for the best browsergame of the Jear 2011.On December 2013,\"Anno Online” was awarded at the german games award as the “Best Browser Game of the year.After working on several inhouse projects, I joined the Ubisoft escape game team. we released our first title \"Escape the Lost Pyramid\" July 2018.