About Jamie Durrant

About Jamie Durrant

There is probably more to Jamie Durrant than you would expect.

He left art school and went straight to work on Knightmare, the ITV children's show. It was there, watching the computer graphics being made, that something clicked. He taught himself 3D Studio on DOS, noticed the industry shifting around him, and followed it into video games before most people knew that was a career.

Before that pivot, he spent time doing things that are harder to put on a CV. He sculpted animatronics for Treasureworld, a museum in Great Yarmouth run by John Rose, a deep-sea diver who pulled genuine treasures up from the seabed. Jamie built the characters that brought the place to life, including a skeleton holding a severed pirate's head mid-conversation. He also created the decor for the museum's restaurant, the Temple of Doom, and worked with Geoff Portass on practical special makeup effects for a BBC horror ident called Dr Terror's Vault of Horror and the ITV show Scratchy and Co.

The video game career that followed lasted over 25 years and took him through some of the most recognised studios in the industry: Lionhead, Ubisoft, Microsoft, Sony, Supermassive Games and NaturalMotion. He worked as Lead UX/UI Designer across more than 25 shipped titles including Fable II (3.5 million copies sold, BAFTA winner), Assassin's Creed Nexus VR, Forza Street, Man of Medan and My Horse, which reached 40 million downloads and was named Apple's Game of the Week.

The Strange Case Company started in 2009. It began as physical cabinets of curiosities, Victorian objects and oddities collected and arranged into something you could look at for a long time. They were popular and slow to make, so the prints followed. Same sensibility, different format. Things you recognise, taken somewhere you did not expect. Each edition is limited and TV presenter Jonathan Ross has been a supporter of the work for years.

Jamie is based in Norwich, Norfolk. He is, above all, someone who just loves making things.