pascal Blanché

Work History

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  Senior Art Director

  Ubisoft Montréal

  July 2012 - Present

  working on Mighty Quest for Epic Loot

  

  
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  Art Director

  Jagex

  March 2011 - July 2012

  Cambridge, United Kingdom

  In charge creating the new visual direction on Runescape,
  a MMORPG released in 2001, running on internet browser.
  10 years of very dense contents to update with new quests almost every weeks.
  Engine was an internet browser, almost no downloads, lots of limitations
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  Art Director / Director of concepts

  Frontier Developments

  January 2011 - March 2011

  Helped with environment designs for Kinect Disneyland Adventures

  
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  Director of animation and Senior Artist

  Frontier Developments

  August 2010 - January 2011

  in charge of the animation quality both in game and cutscenes on The Outsider
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  Art Director

  Ubisoft Montréal

  September 2007 - August 2010

  JAMES CAMERON'S AVATAR ( Xbox360/PS3/PC)
  Consulted with Lightstorm's Art Team to convey the movie's
  visual feel into the game.
  Established production pipelines and set quality standards by
  producing prototypes and visual guidelines for the level artists
  and modelers
  Developped with the technical directors and programmers the
  tools needed to improve the visuals
  Adressed the stereoscopy challenge on every aspects of the
  visuals: level art, props, UI..
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  Art Director

  Ubisoft Montréal

  March 2006 - September 2007

  NARUTO RISE OF A NINJA ( Xbox360 )
  Executed many visual prototypes with technical director to improve the look and feel up to an equivalent japanese style game of the same franchise
  Colaborated on the game design level to find effective solutions and submit visual responses to the production needs.
  Supervised with the lead character designer the quality standard needed to respect the Naruto franchise
  Established the look and feel of the whole game, from Fxs, level art to color palette and UI
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  Character Art director

  Ubisoft

  November 2005 - May 2006

  Montreal, Canada Area

  Worked at the Montreal cinematic Studio on CG cinematics for Assassins's creed, Raimbow Six Lockdown and Splinter Cell Conviction
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  Art Director

  Ubisoft Montréal

  November 2004 - November 2005

  original IP developpement
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  Art Director

  Ubisoft Montréal

  January 2002 - October 2004

  Art director for MYST IV REVELATION ( PC )
  
  Responsible for the quality standard.
  Participated on the floor to create the best pre-calculated visuals in a video @ that time, and respect the ground breaking visuals established by the Myst franchise.
  Developed with the technical directors new approaches in pre-calculted visual development in a game: a reel mix of pre-rendered elements, real time technology and live actors.
  Supervised all aspects of the visual design from shaders to lighting and costumes.
  TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eel74dZY3Ug
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  Lead Character Designer

  Ubisoft Montréal

  November 2001 - January 2003

  Designed, modeled, textured and rigged all the creatures for Myst IV revelation
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  Lead animator

  TVA International

  July 2000 - December 2001

  KAENA THE PROPHECY (CG movie)
  meet the deadlines with the quality asked for
  Supervise a team of other animators and support them in their work
  Some camera editing
  TRAILER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRwTWgS40E8

• Lead cinematics

  Xilam Production

  September 1998 - July 2000

  STUPID INVADERS
  Responsible for the creation and quality of the characters: modeling, texturing, rigging, animation
  Following the director's storyboard, i was responsible for cinematic sequences from A to Z: animation, lighting, camera, editing, Fxs.
  TRAILER and some cutscenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzljyVKcnpA

• Lead Artist

  Katarsys

  December 1996 - September 1998

  Modeler
  Cinematic artist
  Animator
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  Animator

  Haiku Studios

  March 1997 - September 1997

  ELRIC THE NECROMANCER
  character modelisation
  In game animations

• Lead artist

  Virtual Xperience

  March 1994 - February 1997

  ATRIPOLIS 2097
  Character modeler
  Props modeler
  Animator
  Cinematic Animator
  Editing
  FXs

• illustrator

  Tilt Magazine

  September 1993 - February 1994