Luis Ramirez

Luis Ramirez is a former senior artist at Retro Studios. He was involved with all three games in the Metroid Prime series. In Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, one of the dead marines on the G.F.S. Valhalla is named after him. He stayed on as an artist for Donkey Kong Country Returns before leaving Retro. According to Matt Manchester, Ramirez worked heavily on the final version of level 2-1 Popping Planks in Donkey Kong Country Returns, which was inspired by Shadow of the Colossus."This level was iterated upon many times, and Luis Ramirez and Mark Brady also worked heavily on the final version. I have tried to isolate shots of areas that I had worked on primarily. I created the initial landscape shot of the beach going off in the background, with the ocean surf that comes and crashed upon the beach in the background. Shadow of the Colossus was a good game to study for this effect, to see how what techniques they were using for their crashing waves on their beaches. I also created many of the unique background rock shapes that are jutting out from the ocean." http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php/222121-Donkey-Kong-Country-Returns-Environments-(56K!-lots-of-images)
Ramirez later worked on PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, Titanfall and Gravity Rush: Remastered. He is currently an artist at Bluepoint Games, which was founded by former Retro developers, with the first game he did for them being the 2018 remake of Shadow of the Colossus.
Ben Sprout describes Ramirez as the man who "taught me just about everything I know about making environments for games."
==External links==
*Ramirez on LinkedIn
*Ramirez on MobyGames
==References==
Category:Retro Studios employees
Category:Artists and Designers