Experience

• Art Director at Ubisoft

  Annecy, France

  September 2019 - Present

  - Tom Clancy's The Division 2 (Xbox One, PS4, PC, Stadia)
  
  Art Director of the second raid, Operation Iron Horse, produced in Annecy

  - Tom Clancy's The Division 2 : Warlords of New York (Xbox One, PS4, PC, Stadia)
  
  Art Director of the World Team in Annecy, responsible of two Main Missions (and the community's favorite puppy!)

• Associate Art Director at Playground Games

  Leamington Spa, United Kingdom

  December 2015 - Present

  - Forza Horizon 4 (Xbox One/PC)
  
  Co-directed the Art team on this critically acclaimed open-world game (Metascore 92) from early concept to ship.

  - Forza Horizon 3 : Hot Wheels (Xbox One/PC)
  
  Main Art Director of this expansion pack, from preproduction to digital shelves.

  - Forza Horizon 3 : Blizzard Mountain (Xbox One/PC)
  
  Main Art Director of this expansion pack, from preproduction to digital shelves.

  - Forza Horizon 3 (Xbox One/PC)
  
  Co-directed the Art team on this critically acclaimed open-world game (Metascore 91). Mostly involved in Environments, Lighting, and VFX.

• Art Director at Virtuos Games

  Shanghai, China

  August 2012 - November 2015

  ○ Set up Art directions for all disciplines (Concept, Environment, Character, Animation, UI, VFX) or translating client’s directions into visual solutions
  
  ○ Directly managed multiple teams up to 45 artists on different simultaneous projects.
  
  ○ Set up and managed internal trainings from Junior to Lead artists. Trained over 300 artists in China and Vietnam.
  
  ○ Actively involved in company growing, including hiring new artists, enhancing production pipelines and developing new tools.

  ○ Involved in two dozens released and upcoming games for Square-Enix, Sony, Microsoft, Zenimax and more, including two major blockbusters showcased at E3 2015.
  

• Lead Level Artist at Virtuos Games

  Shanghai, China

  August 2010 - August 2012

  ○ Involved in a dozen released games including major AAA for Ubisoft, Activision, Sony, Warner...

  ○ Go-to person for all things related to Level Art, including Lighting, Set dressing, Visual Composition and Storytelling, Architecture Logic, Player Guidance, Level Processes and Optimization, etc.

  ○ Trained, coached and directly supervised the Level Team (Artist and Designers) to help them work together and achieve some of the highest quality standards in the industry.
  

• Level Artist at Ubisoft

  Paris, France

  January 2009 - July 2010

  - Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon : Future Soldier (Xbox360, PS3, PC) -
  
  Working with level-designers to create realistic environments and lighting, according to level design.
  
  Managing a small team of artist on multiplayer levels.

  - Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Online (PC) -
  
  The game was developed in Singapore, but several sections of levels I initially made for GR:Future Soldier have been actually used in GR:Online.

• Level Artist at Widescreen Games

  Lyon, France

  October 2006 - January 2009

  - Highlander : The Game (Xbox360, PS3, PC) -
  
  Starting as 3D Artist, I became Level Artist thanks to my knowledge for the Unreal Engine 3 (Scenes composition, complex shaders & lightings, etc.)

  - The Witcher : Rise of the White Wolf (Xbox360, PS3) -
  
  As Level Artist, we had to improve and optimise the whole game to port it on consoles from Aurora Engine (PC-only) to DaVinci Engine (Multiplatform), produce all normal maps, remake lightings from static to full dynamic, etc.