Former LucasArts 3D artist Ti-Ning Kwa has sadly passed away. Leaving LucasArts in 2003 after working as a World Artist and Additional Texture on Star Wars: Episode I – Jedi Power Battles (2000, PlayStation and Dreamcast) and concept artist on both Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds (2001, Windows) and Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds – Saga (2002, Windows), he went on to become best known for his work on The Sims, starting with The Urbz: Sims in the City (2004, GameCube) and ending with The Sims 4: Moschino Stuff (2020, Windows). He compiled 80 credits across 61 games, and will be missed.
Ti-Ning Kwa, a 3D artist who previously worked at LucasArts and Sims developer Maxis, passed away last week, according to an email from his former coworker Gaurav Mathur.
Per Mathur and Kwa’s family, Kwa got his start in games at Dynamix, where he provided artwork for 1998’s Starsiege Tribes and 2001’s Tribes 2. When the studio went defunct that year, he and other Tribes team members went over to LucasArts.
There, he did concept and world art for Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds and Star Wars Episode I: Jedi Power Battles.
