Researching Paul Steed
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1441 people with the Steed surname? In that year Steed was ranked number 2215 for popularity in the UK. |
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The name Paul means "small" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Paul Steed on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Paul Steed in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Paul Steed and the Steed Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Steed Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Steed family tree.
Look at Parish Records for Paul Steed at Find My Past.
Explore for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Paul Steed using the FreeBMD database.
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Search the LDS Database for records about Paul Steed.
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| Did you know that there are currently 1823 people with the Steed surname in the UK? Steed is now ranked number 2455 for popularity in the UK. |
Steed Genealogy Databases
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Steed Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 12153 people with the Steed surname in the USA? Steed is ranked number 153 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Steed Databases
Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Paul Steed. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Paul Steed
Paul Steed
Paul Howard Steed Jr. (November 6, 1964 – August 11, 2012) was a video game modeller and artist. He worked for Origin Systems, Electronic Arts, id Software, Wild Tangent, Microsoft's Xbox, Atari, and Exigent. He created artwork or models for several prominent game series including Wing Commander and Quake. He was employed by id Software until he was fired in retaliation for conflict over the creation of Doom 3 (according to John Carmack).
Steed began his career with videogames in 1991 at Origin Systems, after answering a newspaper ad that said "Fantasy artist wanted". Starting as a game design sketcher, he moved up to art director then project director. Steed has indicated he "didn't touch a mouse until I was 27." He worked as an art director at Virgin Entertainment and a designer at Iguana entertainment as well. In 2000 after being fired from id Software he went to work for Wild Tangent making several dancing girl visualizers for Winamp and a third-person shooter called Betty Bad (an homage to Steed's favorite arcade game, Tempest).
Steed gained press and controversy with the release of a "Crackwhore" female model for Quake II in response to a skin (character texture) contest for the first Quake sponsored by a group of female gamers who called themselves the "Crackwhore Clan". The Crackwhore model was released after Quake II was released as a downloadable character as an homage to that same female gamer clan. While Quake II included a female character as an option when playing, both the phraseology and approach to the Crackwhore model received some amount of criticism despite the 'Crackwhore Clan' having been created and organized by and composed solely of female gamers - not Paul Steed.
He was active in the game development community and gave talks not only at the annual Game Developer's Conference, but also at universities and art institutes. He initiated and sponsored several modeling contests such as the Bad Girl and Cute Doll contests by which he challenged any and all other modelers to compete against him for sponsored prizes. Paul convinced many vendors like Autodesk to contribute those prizes as well as recognition to the contest winners.
A published author, Paul Steed wrote three books on modeling and animating game characters for 3D games. He served on the Advisory Board for GDC for many years and as creative director for Microsoft's Xbox and Atari he gained experience on the other side of the developer fence. He left Atari in 2006 to co-found Exigent with Garland Wong and Jesse Rapczak. As President and Chief Creative Officer at Exigent, a global game art company for next generation and casual games, Paul oversaw more than 100 artists in India and China while consulting with top developers and publishers. Lately he provided creative and managerial leadership for an unannounced UTV Ignition Entertainment project, but subsequently moved on to a series of casual and console projects.
Steed died on August 11, 2012.
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