David Pettigrew
- Writer
- Animation Department
- Art Director
David Pettigrew began his career as key animator on the The Flintston'e Comedy Show in 1980. After two seasons David was hired at Korty Films as sequence animator an the animated feature film Twice Upon A Time released in 1983. After the movie's release, David was hired as the first trained animator at Atari Coin Op, later called Atari Games. There he contributed to Black Widow, Cloak & Dagger, Firefox and Gauntlet. As arcades were replaced by game consoles, David left Atari for Hewlett Packard TV where as art director and video director where he produced many award winning corporate videos.
David left HPTV after seven years, returning to make video games at Electronic Arts. There he created the original game concept, was art director and production designer for Shockwave Invasion Earth 2019. In 1994 David left EA to become art director for Paramount Pictures' Media Kitchen, an R&D unit developing interactive television concepts for the studio. The Media Kitchen later became Paramount Digital Entertainment focusing on bringing Paramount marketing to the Internet. The first website PDE created was for Star Trek Generations. David designed what was arguably the first graphical user interface for the website Star Trek Generations. The website was later inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. As PDE's creative director David worked with the producers, writers and cast of Entertainment Tonight, the animated series Duckman, Deep Space Nine and Star Trek Voyager to develop cutting edge promotional websites. He also provided art direction and design for Congo The Movie, Clueless, Virtuosity and two unique iterations of paramountpictures.
David left Paramount for TiVo where he was on the founding team as creative director. There he worked with TiVo partners including Showtime, the NFL, Nickelodeon and others to develop marketing for the platform. David's first technology patent was for TiVos onscreen display that provides visual feedback for play, fast forward, and reverse on a time line. An invention that has become ubiquitous on set top boxes around the world.
David left TiVo to become creative director at Mediazone a South African company and early Internet streaming service, where he worked with producers for Indy Car Series, the Boston Marathon, Wimbledon, Rugby Sevens, FIFA Basketball, NBC's Olympics and others to develop websites that allowed users to watch and interact with sporting events in real time.
After Mediazone, David was hired by Technicolor as Vice President of R&D where he assembled a team of software engineers, electrical engineers and user interface designers that became the eXperience Design Center or XDC. His charter was to build prototypes for next generation set top boxes that included gateways and mass storage. David and his team won numerous national and international awards for their hardware and software designs that debuted annually at the Consumer Electronics Show. David was awarded seven U.S. and three E.U. technology patents while at Technicolor.