Andrew Paquette is an artist and writer, known primarily for his work as a CG artist in the feature film and video game industry. Born in 1965 in St. Paul, Minnesota, he has lived in several states within the US, primarily New York, Maine, California, Minnesota, and Arizona. Currently he lives in the Netherlands, where he is an art teacher at a game-development school.
Comic books
Paquette's first professional work as a comic book artist appeared in the now defunct title Dread of Night from Hamilton Comics. He later made several one-shot appearances as penciller, inker, or artist, in various titles from Marvel Comics and DC Comics, including a well-received story written by author Nicholas Vance in Hellraiser #14, Nightbreed #17, written by Larry Wachowski, of The Matrix fame, Teen Titans #87, A couple issues of Avengers, a Daredevil annual, Book of the Damned, Deathstroke and The Big Book of Urban Legends. After these initial forays into comics, he became co-creator and penciller of the Harris Comics seriesHarsh Realm. His last comic, published immediately before entering the video game industry, was the self-parody Dr. Andy #1, published by the now defunct Alliance Comics.
Harsh Realm
The Harsh Realmcomic book series was optioned for use as a TV series by producer Daniel Sackheim and Fox television sometime prior to 1998. By 1999, the series was in production, with Fox veteran Chris Carter at the helm. The series did not perform well and was cancelled almost as soon as it was released, after airing only three episodes on the Fox network. Later, all nine of the finished episodes were aired on the sci-fi channel and then the series was released as a boxed set of DVDs. When the series first aired, credit was not given to either creator of the series, Paquette or Hudnall. The pair subsequently filed suit against Fox, Carter, and Harris Comics, asking for a preliminary injunction against airing further episodes until appropriate credit was given. In the final ruling on the matter, the injunction was granted, Fox relented and gave the two creators credit in the start credits, and the show was cancelled. Some believe there is a connection between the lawsuit and the series being cancelled, though the show's poor ratings are enough of a justification on their own. The lawsuit against Carter was filed on October 13, which was both his birthday and Paquette's, as well as the name of Carter's production company, tenthirteen Productions.
Credits
Video games
Paquette has credits for working on the following games:
OMFII/Battlegrounds, Diversions Entertainment as lead artist 1994-1996.
