Experience

• Co-Founder - Art Director - Writer at Mercenage

  Montreal, Canada

  May 2018 - Present

  ❖ Writing & Art Director:
  
  Managing the vision and creative direction when it comes to the universe of our games. Making sure narrative, atmosphere, art, and animations are working together in harmony. in order to immerse our players into the story. So we can deliver believable, intense experiences throughout your journey.

  - Y-ed mind charts and design documents that give depth and complexity to each character.
  
  - Narrative writing
  
  - Art Direction and design documentation

  ❖ Frame-by-frame Animation (*together with animator)
  
  ❖ Concept Art
  
  ❖ Environment Art
  
  ❖ Character Art

• Senior 2D Game Artist at Ludia

  Montreal, Canada

  October 2017 - March 2018

  ❖ Background Development for Ludia’s IP What’s Your Story:

  Included drawing backgrounds assets, drawing scenarios for many of the IPs.

  ❖ Responsible for developing the team:

  Made tutorials for the artists and coached employees. Helped them grow as artists.

  ❖ Made pitch for acquiring new IPs:

  Did art mockup pitches to gain rights to Ghostbusters and Orange is The New Black.

• Senior Matte Painting Artist at Vast Studios

  Toronto, Canada

  April 2012 - September 2015

  Working as Matte Painting & 2D artist our team developed best sellers games for PC and mobile devices.

  ❖ With Vast Studios I worked creating background scenarios in a number of different games IPs.
  
  ❖ Mastered ‘matte painting’ techniques, texturing and lighting in Photoshop.
  
  ❖ Concept art
  
  ❖ Matte Painting
  
  ❖ CG Painting
  
  ❖ 2D Lighting
  
  ❖ Revision of in-house & outsourced art

• Freelance Matte Painting Artist at Longtail Studios

  Torornto, Canada

  May 2014 - August 2014

  Game Title: CSI: Hidden Crimes®
  
  Publisher: Ubisoft®

  Worked with Longtail Studios on this great Ubisoft title CSI: Hidden CrimesTM as background artist.

  ❖ Used my Matte Painting experience to generate striking and immersive crime scenes.
  
  ❖ Backgrounds were done in only 3 - 4 days maximum. Not a challenge after Vast Studios 2 days scenes.

  Game website: www.ubisoft.com/en-GB/game/csi-hidden-crimes/
  
  Company website: www.longtailstudios.com

• Lead Artist at Phantom Compass

  Torornto, Canada

  December 2011 - April 2012

  Game Title: Rollers of the Realm®
  
  Publisher: Atlus®

  ❖ With this very experienced team I worked on the awards winning title Rollers of the Realm
  
  ❖ My position was of Lead Artist, where I worked helping bring the vision of the game to life.
  
  ❖ Modeled enemy characters
  
  ❖ Concept Art
  
  ❖ Scenario modeling and blocking
  
  ❖ Art Direction

  Game website: www.rollersoftherealm.com
  
  Company website: www.phantomcompass.com

• 3D Modeler + Concept artist at Space Mop

  Toronto, Canada

  January 2012 - April 2012

  Show Title: Space Janitors®

  ❖ Had a blast making spacecrafts for this amazing Star Wars satire entitled Space Janitors.
  
  ❖ Joined a great VFX team, worked concepting, modeling and texturing a spacecraft fighter.

  Show website: http://www.spacejanitors.com/
  
  Company website: http://www.spacemop.com/

• Contract Game Artist at Centre for Development of Open Technology (CDOT)

  Toronto, Canada

  August 2011 - November 2011

  Game Title: Dragon Breeder®
  
  Publisher: Spongelab®

  ❖ Worked as the solo artist for the educational online game, Dragon Breeder.
  
  ❖ 2D, 3D character and scenario design
  
  ❖ Storyboards and game flow charts
  
  ❖ Concept Art
  
  ❖ Tileable Environments
  
  ❖ Assets design
  
  ❖ UI Design
  
  ❖ Dragons hereditary traits

  Company website: cdot.senecacollege.ca
  
  Client website: www.spongelab.com

• Character Concept Art, Story board, Animation at Magic Movie Produções

  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  October 2009 - March 2010

  Show Title: Ozne®

  Magic Movie Produções is established in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It produces video material for television, film, mobile and Internet. Here I worked on Ozne®, a TV animation show.

  ❖ Charatcer and props concept artist
  
  ❖ 3D keyframe animatior

• Workshop Coordinator at Anima Mundi Animation Festival

  Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  July 2008 - January 2010

  International Animation Festival of Brazil and the biggest in South America. It occurs annually in the cities of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo with the duration of two weeks.

  ❖ Work as instructor teaching "stop-motion animation" and "clay modeling" for the festival's audience.

  Company website: www.animamundi.com.br/en/