Age of Empires
Age of Empires is a series of historical real-time strategy video games, originally developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Studios. The first title of the series was "Age of Empires", released in 1997. Seven titles and three spin-offs have been released.
David A. Cherry
The game, "Age of Mythology", by Ensemble Studios, Inc. was published in 2002 by Microsoft. During the development of the game, David’s job description at Ensemble Studios had began to morph to suit the changing artistic needs of the project, which resulted in him "preparing marketing materials: ads, brochures, magazine covers, etc." In addition to numerous magazine covers, David created the box cover for the game. At the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo in 2001, his box cover art was displayed seven stories tall directly over the entrance to E3. 
Eventually, David taught himself how to work in 3D Studio Max and joined the Ensemble Modeling Team. After "Age of Mythology", David stayed with Ensemble through the production and release of its expansion pack, ""; "Age of Empires III" and its expansion pack, ""; as well as the Xbox title: "Halo Wars". He often had to switch between preparing marketing art and building game content in 3D.