Lead Technical Artist · Montréal, Canada
Pipelines, tools and solving game development challenges.
With 20 years of experience in game development, I specialize in simplifying technical workflows and streamlining art content iteration. I accelerate content creation, optimize performance to meet frame-rate targets, and mentor technical artists to help teams deliver their best work.
01 / Selected work
From AAA console to standalone VR, my job is the same: give artists a pipeline they trust and an engine that holds its frame rate.
Also shipped (click for trailers): Dead Space 2: Severed · Rango · Iron Man · Dante's Inferno (PSP) · The Sims 3 (Wii) · MySims SkyHeroes · MySims Racing · Spider-Man: Friend or Foe · High School Musical · Scene It?
02 / What I do
A dynamic space where human creativity, code, and digital tools merge to shape new mediums.
End-to-end pipelines from DCC to engine: content creation, physics and destruction, characters, mocap, outsourcing hand-off.
Maya, 3ds Max, Unity and Frostbite tools in Python, MEL, C# and C++. Built for artists, documented, supported.
Frame-rate and memory budgets on console and VR, where a dropped frame is a headache for the player.
Shader authoring and lighting setups that look right and stay inside budget.
Automating AI art into game-ready assets, MetaHuman integration and motion capture pipelines in UE5.
Leading and mentoring tech art teams, including international remote teams, and setting quality standards for partners.
03 / Career
Vegas Infinite (Unity) and an unannounced Unreal Engine 5 title. Team of 6 TAs, AI asset automation, MetaHuman, mocap, NVIDIA partnership.
Unannounced VR live IP in Unreal. Managed an international team of 6 TAs and defined the engine pipeline and core systems.
Star Wars: Squadrons and Star Wars Battlefront II. Creator of BioSocket.
Mass Effect: Andromeda. Owner of the physics, content creation and destruction pipelines.
Dead Space 2, Dead Space 2: Severed and Dead Space 3. Led the Montréal technical team.
Ten titles including Rango, Iron Man and The Sims 3. Built the A2M Art Library, a web-based automated asset library.
Grew from 3D artist to lead. Took a new 3D technology from prototype to mass production.
04 / Talks & toolbelt
Star Wars Battlefront II
Mass Effect: Andromeda
05 / Next
I'm available now for Lead or Principal Technical Artist roles, in Montréal or remote.