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Richard Vander Wende is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 visual designer and video game designer best known for his work on the 1992 Disney
The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....
 film Aladdin and the Cyan Worlds
Cyan Worlds

Cyan Worlds, Inc. is a computer game company, founded by brothers Rand Miller and Robyn Miller in 1987. After the release of Riven: The Sequel to Myst in 1997, Robyn left Cyan to pursue other interests....
 computer game Riven
Riven

Riven is the sequel to the highly successful personal computer game Myst. Developed by Cyan Worlds, it was initially published by Br?derbund....
.

Vander Wende's career began at Industrial Light and Magic (ILM
Ilm

Ilm or ILM can refer to:*ilm , Arabic for knowledge, as an List of Islamic terms in Arabic it refers to knowledge of Islam.*I Love Music, an Internet music forum....
), working on projects such as the films Willow
Willow (film)

Willow is a 1988 fantasy film adventure film directed by Ron Howard and produced/co-written by George Lucas. Warwick Davis stars in the film, as well as Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh and Patricia Hayes....
 and Innerspace
Innerspace

Innerspace is a 1987 science fiction comedy film directed by Joe Dante and produced by Steven Spielberg. The film was inspired by the classic 1966 in film sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage....
 as a concept designer. Because of a fondness for the old Disney
The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....
 films, Vander Wende took a position at Walt Disney Feature Animation
Walt Disney Feature Animation

Walt Disney Animation Studios is a key element of The Walt Disney Company, and the oldest existing animation studio in the world. The feature animation studio was an integrated part of Walt Disney Productions from 1934 until 1986, when, during the corporate restructuring to create The Walt Disney Company, it officially became a subsidiary of...
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Richard Vander Wende is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 visual designer and video game designer best known for his work on the 1992 Disney
The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....
 film Aladdin and the Cyan Worlds
Cyan Worlds

Cyan Worlds, Inc. is a computer game company, founded by brothers Rand Miller and Robyn Miller in 1987. After the release of Riven: The Sequel to Myst in 1997, Robyn left Cyan to pursue other interests....
 computer game Riven
Riven

Riven is the sequel to the highly successful personal computer game Myst. Developed by Cyan Worlds, it was initially published by Br?derbund....
.

Vander Wende's career began at Industrial Light and Magic (ILM
Ilm

Ilm or ILM can refer to:*ilm , Arabic for knowledge, as an List of Islamic terms in Arabic it refers to knowledge of Islam.*I Love Music, an Internet music forum....
), working on projects such as the films Willow
Willow (film)

Willow is a 1988 fantasy film adventure film directed by Ron Howard and produced/co-written by George Lucas. Warwick Davis stars in the film, as well as Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Jean Marsh and Patricia Hayes....
 and Innerspace
Innerspace

Innerspace is a 1987 science fiction comedy film directed by Joe Dante and produced by Steven Spielberg. The film was inspired by the classic 1966 in film sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage....
 as a concept designer. Because of a fondness for the old Disney
The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is the largest media and entertainment corporation in the world. Founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy O....
 films, Vander Wende took a position at Walt Disney Feature Animation
Walt Disney Feature Animation

Walt Disney Animation Studios is a key element of The Walt Disney Company, and the oldest existing animation studio in the world. The feature animation studio was an integrated part of Walt Disney Productions from 1934 until 1986, when, during the corporate restructuring to create The Walt Disney Company, it officially became a subsidiary of...
. His early visual development for Aladdin
Aladdin (1992 film)

Aladdin is a Animation produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation, and released by Walt Disney Pictures on November 25, 1992. The thirty-first animated feature in the List of Disney theatrical animated features, the film is based on the Arab folktale of Aladdin from One Thousand and One Nights....
 led directors Ron Clements
Ron Clements

Ron Clements is an American animation director and producer.He is one half of America's leading contemporary animation team with John Musker....
 and John Musker
John Musker

John Musker is an American animation director.Musker is one half of America's leading contemporary animation team with Ron Clements. He first met Clements during the production of The Fox and the Hound , where he worked as a character animator under Clements....
 to choose that story as the subject for their next film. Vander Wende eventually became production designer
Production designer

Production designer is a term used in the movie industry and television industries to refer to the person responsible for the overall look of a filmed event such as films, TV programs, music videos or adverts....
 for the film.

Following his stint at Disney, Vander Wende became interested in the potential of computer games
Computer Games

"Computer Games" is a single by New Zealand group, Mi-Sex released in 1981 . It was the single that launched the band, and was hugely popular, particularly in Australia and New Zealand....
 as a medium for telling a different kind of story. After a chance meeting with Robyn Miller
Robyn Miller

Robyn Charles Miller co-founded Cyan Worlds with brother Rand Miller. After releasing a number of children's adventure "worlds", the brothers finally hit on a success with the computer game Myst, which remained the number one-selling game for the remainder of the 1990's....
, he began working at Cyan (currently, Cyan Worlds
Cyan Worlds

Cyan Worlds, Inc. is a computer game company, founded by brothers Rand Miller and Robyn Miller in 1987. After the release of Riven: The Sequel to Myst in 1997, Robyn left Cyan to pursue other interests....
) and eventually became co-director and co-designer of the computer game Riven
Riven

Riven is the sequel to the highly successful personal computer game Myst. Developed by Cyan Worlds, it was initially published by Br?derbund....
; the sequel to Myst
Myst

Myst is a graphic adventure game video game designed and directed by the brothers Robyn Miller and Rand Miller. It was developed by Cyan Worlds, a Spokane, Washington-based studio, and video game publisher and distributed by Br?derbund....
. His more cinematic visual influence is clearly seen throughout the Riven world. His wife Kate had a cameo appearance in the game as Leira/Keta. After the successful launch of Riven, Vander Wende left Cyan to pursue other projects.

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