Nicolas Collings

Work History

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  Senior Character Artist - concept, modeling, texturing, shading

  Riot Games

  August 2014 - January 2018

  Santa Monica, California

  project - RYZE: call for power cinematic (YouTube)
  
  Initially help to establish a new innovative animation character pipeline and defining the character art direction by working closely with designers and animators.
  
  key roles include modeling, texturing, shading and helping on the design of the characters by doing concept ideation and providing 3d maquette to find final character design.
  
  
  
  From January to March 2017 : (shipped) Involved in a VR project in UE4 for a Vive experience. (made for a league of legends popup event in china ). I was responsible for the creation and integration of the characters in UE4.
  
  
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  Senior Character Modeler - Texture Painter

  Naughty Dog

  January 2014 - August 2014

  santa monica, california

  Uncharted 4 - in production
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  Lead Character Modeler - Texture painter

  Blur Studio

  December 2010 - January 2014

  venice, ca

  Feature Films I've worked on as Lead Character Artist ...
  
  - Thor: The Dark World ( Marvel Studios ) 2013
  
  Game Cinematics I've worked on as Lead/Supervisor Character Artist managing btw 5 and 15 people ...
  
  - League of Legends Cinenatic: New dawn (Riot Games) - 2013
  - League of Legends Cinematic: A Twist of Fate (Riot Games) -2013
  - Halo 4 Launch Trailer 'Scanned' (Microsoft) - 2012
  -The guardians of the middle earth (Monolith) - 2012
  
  Game Cinematics/Commercials I've worked on as Senior Character Artist
  
  -The elder scrolls online (Bethesda) - 2013
  - Goldfish Season 6 (Commercials) - 2013
  - Dead Rising 3 (Capcom) - 2013
  - Injustice Gods Among Us (Capcom) - 2012
  - PlanetSide 2 ( Sony Online Entertainment) - 2012
  - FarCry 3 (ubisoft) - 2012
  - Dishonored (Bethesda) -2012
  - Resident Evil Raccoon City (Capcom) - 2011
  - Overstrike (Insomniac Games) - 2011
  - Lost Planet 3 (Capcom) - 2011

  

  

  

  
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  Senior Character Modeler / Texture Painter

  Ubisoft Montréal

  August 2008 - November 2010

  Montreal, Canada Area

  Titles:
  - Assassin's Creed 3 (Pre-Production Only)
  - Assassin's Creed Brotherhood (2010) PS3, X360, PC
  - Assassin's Creed 2 (2009) PS3, X360, PC
  
  (Modelling - Texturing on hi poly / in game characters)

  

• Speaker

  CG CON INC

  April 2010 - April 2010

  CGCON White Conference in Montreal
  3h presentation about the in-game character modeling pipeline on assassin's creed 2 .
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  cg creature and character modeler

  Larian Studios

  February 2007 - June 2008

  Title:
  
  Divinity2 : Ego Draconis (2008) | Next-Gen RPG | PC&Xbox360;
  Modeling/Sculpting Hi-res Creatures and Characters
  (Zbrush - digital sculpting)
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  Character Modeler

  Walking The Dog

  March 2006 - April 2006

  Short Film " Dji Vou Veu Volti".
  Duties : Modeling character + some props
  
  Won the Best Short Film Award at Imagina 2008 ( France )

• Character Modeler

  Blue Spirit Studio

  December 2005 - March 2006

  TV Serie " SamSam"
  ( animated preschool series air on the French television )
  character modeling + texturing + skinning + Facial Blendshape creation
  
  TV Serie: Pilot of "Sinbad of the Stars"
  Character Modeling / Facial Blendshapes
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  Intern Character Modeler

  Oniria Pictures

  February 2005 - May 2005

  TV Serie: Pilot of " MMM"
  Character Modeling / Texturing / Skinning / Facial Blenshape