Teagan Morrison is the chief executive of Sky Castle Studios, the 📝Santa Monica, CA studio behind Hero Forge, the browser-based character customizer that turns a tabletop player's design into a 3D-printed miniature. An 🏷️#artist and 🏷️#programmer by training, Morrison has led the company since June 2016 after a decade at Naughty Dog, the Sony-owned developer of the Uncharted and The Last of Us franchises, where they rose from environment artist to lead technical artist and then technical art director.
Sky Castle Studios launched Hero Forge on Kickstarter in January 2014, clearing its $95,000 goal within 72 hours, and has since expanded it with a second campaign for full-color printed miniatures, custom dice, and digital downloads, alongside the sister products Charmsmith and Chibify. The studio describes itself as a flat, self-directed team of artists, developers, riggers, and modelers, somewhere between eleven and fifty people, that hosts game nights between releases. Morrison studied computer science at Santa Monica College and worked as a 3D artist and website designer before joining Naughty Dog in 2006; their public profile reads "Artist / Programmer / Designer," a triad that fits a business whose product is a real-time 3D tool feeding a 📝3D Printing pipeline.