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I am French and was born in Geneva, Switzerland on the 9th of Sept 1980. I now live in London, UK.
I am bilingual (French and English). I also studied German, Spanish and a bit of Chinese (Mandarin).

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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
I will be available for work in April 2012, so if you are looking for a 3D artist / TD, don't hesitate to contact me. Thank you!
Aug 2011 - Feb 2012 I moved to London to work in visual effects at MPC - Film as an FX TD. I mainly create destruction effects using MPC's in-house toolkit Kali. I also work on various particle effects (sprite, smoke, debris etc).
Sep 2010 - July 2011 I contributed to various projects including a three month contract at boutiq AG in Zurich, where I created 3D content for commercials (print and TV). In the meanwhile I also co-founded, artanim, a foundation to develop and promote motion capture and gave 3D introductory courses on Maya for the Digital Film and Animation Diploma at the SAE school in Geneva.
Aug 2008 - Aug 2010 As main 3D artist at Pixelux Entertainment SA I created cinematic and real-time demos showcasing DMM (Digital Molecular Matter), a material physics simulation technology featured amongst others in video games "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed I and II" and movie "Avatar". I also helped enhance the DMM plugin capabilities by working closely with the software development team and contributed to the development of a video game (undisclosed title).
Feb-May 2008 After travelling during 9 months around the world, I worked for cobweb development sarl during two months. I developped all the dynamic flash content for the website www.goldkenn.com
2002 - 2007 During my studies, I worked at MIRALab-University of Geneva. I started out as an administrative auxiliary before becoming a research assistant in 2003. I was involved in various aspects of 3d graphics (modelling, animation, texturing, rendering, clothes simulation, etc.) but mainly I worked on motion capture animations (recording, post-pocessing, retargeting).
Aug 2004 One month summer internship at Siliwoud, a small 3D company in Gingins, Switzerland.
EDUCATION
Dec 2006 Master of Advances Studies in Computer Graphics, Polytechnic school of Lausanne (EPFL)
Project: "Virtual Mirror: a Real-time Motion Capture Application for Virtual-try-On"
April 2005 Master in Information Systems, University of Geneva
Project: "Garment Simulation and Animation on Children Bodies"
July 2002 Certificate in Computer Animation and Visual Effects, New York University (NYU)