Scott Rodenhizer

Scott Rodenhizer was a developer that worked at Interplay Entertainment on Fallout as a clay modeler and on Fallout 2 as the head artist.

Career[edit]

For Interplay, Rodenhizer worked on creating clay sculptures for Star Trek: Secret of Vulcan Fury. Leonard Boyarsky attempted to sculpt the talking heads for Fallout but was only able to get the Vault 13 Overseer done. Rodenhizer was brought onto Fallout to create the other talking heads. He eventually left Interplay and move to San Francisco.^{[Dev 1]}

Rodenhizer created a Flash development firm around 2005, and took a step back from 3D graphics work.^{[Dev 1]} He worked at Alchemy3 as the senior art director and creative director from 2019 onward.^{[Ext 1]}^{[Ext 2]}

Fallout Series[edit]

In the Vault Dweller's Survival Guide, Rodenhizer is credited as an artist, clay modeler, and for art in the manual itself. He created all of the talking heads apart from the overseer.^{[Dev 1]}

For Fallout 2, Rodenhizer is credited with working on the scenery. cutscenes and Talking Heads.^{[Pub 1]} According to Gary Platner, he designed the box cover helmet for Fallout 2.^{[Dev 2]}

Rodenhizer mentioned that he was positioned to be the art lead for Van Buren, but left the company shortly after Fallout 2's release.^{[Dev 1]}

Employment History[edit]

From	To	Company	Role
1994	1998	Interplay Entertainment	Artist
1998	2002	Fluid Entertainment	Artist
2002	Present	Newpixel, LLC.	Artist

Credits[edit]

Fallout Series[edit]

Year	Title	Credited
1997	Fallout	Clay Modeler
1998	Fallout 2	Artist Head Artist

Other Work[edit]

Year	Title	Credited
1999	Pokémon Play It!	Lead Artist Julie Character Design

Notes[edit]

Scott Rodenhizer is a name that can be found on graves in Fallout 2.^[1]

Quotes[edit]

“Scott sculpted the clay heads that were used to make the "talking heads" used in Fallout. This is really neat job. He is animating and texture mapping the digital models of those clay heads. This is a lot more work, but he is doing a great job. Scott would have liked to have seen his work in the demo.”— Meet the Fallout Development Team, Interplay Website; Fallout Team (Archive)]