Robb Waters

Robb Waters is one of the concept artists for BioShock and the Senior Character Concept Artist for BioShock Infinite.

Career[]

Robb Waters worked on games such as System Shock and Thief: The Dark Project before becoming an employee of Irrational Games in 2000. After he was hired he worked as a the character concept artist for Freedom Force (2002) and as a concept artist for Freedom Force vs The 3rd Reich (2005). He was eventually given the task as a concept artist for BioShock and is responsible for creating the final look for the Little Sisters, the Splicer models, the appearance of Andrew Ryan and Sander Cohen, advertising (both in-game and marketing), the Plasmid training videos, The Challenge Rooms and much more. On the development team of BioShock Infinite, Waters became the Senior Character Concept Artist and created concept art for many characters and set pieces, including those of the Songbird, the Heavy Hitters (excluding the Firemen), the Sky-Hook, Cornelius Slate and Daisy Fitzroy. Sculpting is one of Waters talents, and he designed the Songbird statue,^[1] featured in the Ultimate Songbird Edition. The Cover art for BioShock Infinite and Clash in the Clouds was also made by Waters. After the closing of Irrational Games, Waters worked with Day for Night Games on the indie title The Black Glove as a Concept artist, which was shelved.^[2] He later worked on the game Perception by The Deep End Games which was released in May 2017^[3]^[4] and the System Shock remake, under Nightdive Studios.^[5] Waters has also recently done work for IDW Publishing, Certain Affinity and Ghost Story Games.^[6] Waters is currently working as a freelancer for Cloud Chamber on the next BioShock game.^[7]

Game Credits[]

BioShock series[]

Year	Game	Company	Credited as/for
2007	BioShock	2K Boston / 2K Australia	Concept Artist, PS3 System Concept Artist
2010	BioShock 2	2K Marin	Team
2013	BioShock Infinite	Irrational Games	Senior Character Concept Artist
N/A	Untitled BioShock Game	Cloud Chamber	Freelance, Unknown

Other[]

Year	Game	Company	Credited as/for
1994	System Shock	LookingGlass Technologies	Artist
1995	Flight Unlimited	Looking Glass Studios	Artist
1996	Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri	Looking Glass Studios	Artist
1998	Thief: The Dark Project	Looking Glass Studios	Artist
1998	Akuji: The Heartless	Crystal Dynamics	Artist
N/A	The Lost	Irrational Games	Concept Artist
2002	Freedom Force	Irrational Games	Freedom Force Team, Audio
2005	Freedom Force vs The 3rd Reich	Irrational Games	Concept Artist, Audio
2005	SWAT 4	Irrational Games	Artist
2012	PlayStation All-Stars: Battle Royale	SuperBot Entertainment	Support
Not released	The Black Glove	Day For Night Games	Art Director, Concept Artist
2017	Perception	The Deep End Games	Concept Artist
2017	System Shock (Remake)	Nightdive Studios	Artist