Rare Ltd
Matthew Roe is an accomplished Principal Animator at Rare Ltd since August 2022, with prior experience as a Senior Animator at TT Games Ltd from January 2015 to August 2022, contributing to projects such as Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 and Lego Worlds. Additionally, Matthew served as a Junior Animator and 3D Generalist and Designer at Samurai Sportswear from September 2011 to January 2015, specializing in creative animations, 3D modeling, texture mapping, rendering, and lighting for both web and print. Early career experience includes graphic design at Fendercare Marine and part-time animation at ArtArchitecture. Matthew holds a Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design: Animation from Norwich University of the Arts and completed training at iAnimate from 2012 to 2014.
Rare Ltd
Midlands-based developer Rare has been making golden memories and redefining gaming genres since 1985, and exclusively on Microsoft platforms since joining Microsoft Studios in 2002. In that time, the studio's pursuit of innovation and quality has led to the creation of Xbox Avatars, the double BAFTA-winning Kinect Sports titles and new IP including Kameo and Viva Piñata – all added to a stable that already holds Battletoads, Banjo-Kazooie, Conker and Perfect Dark. 2015 saw Rare take the opportunity to celebrate this incredible heritage in Rare Replay, a collection of 30 games carefully curated for its 30th anniversary. In more recent years our investigations into cutting-edge motion control resulted in the multi-million-selling, double BAFTA-winning Kinect Sports series. With development now firmly established for Xbox One and Windows 10, we're still hard at work here in our custom-built English countryside HQ. Galvanised by the opportunity to celebrate our heritage with the Rare Replay anniversary collection, we followed it up with our most ambitious undertaking to date: creating a world of legendary pirate adventures for players to tackle together in Sea of Thieves. Then came X019 in London and the unveiling of Rare's very latest world of wonder, Everwild. Rare's custom-built development studio is based in the Midlands, UK.