Born in Malaysia in 1972, David Tak Wei Cheong learned how to draw soon after he learned how to walk. In 1978 he was schlepped over to Canada. The development of his adolescent brain owes much to Ray Harryhausen, Star Wars, the Atari 2600, and the Commodore 64. As a young adult, Dave spent 4 years in the Animation Program at Vancouver's Emily Carr School of Art and Design. During that time he hooked-up with Alex Garden, Luke Moloney, and Gary Shaw in 1993 working on BulletProof Software's award-winning "Faceball" at a small, independent game company named Intersoft. Towards the end of his program at ECCAD he did a co-op gig at Electronic Arts working on "J-League Soccer" for the 3DO platform. Soon after, he spent a 2-year stint on matters entirely unrelated to the computer game industry (namely the marijuana legalization movement) as Art Director for a magazine called "Cannabis Canada". And now in 1998, Dave finds all the vectors of his life converging at the singularity that is known as Relic Entertainment.
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