Vince Boutry

Vince Boutry

20 Years experiences Animated Feature Films and Series

Lead Character Artist / 20 yrs

Dublin, Ireland

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Character Modelling Director

Spirit Rangers (2022)

Senior Character Modeller

The Grinch (2018)

Senior Character Modeller

The Secret Life of Pets (2016)

Senior Character Modeller

Minions (2015)

Character Modeller on shorts

Despicable Me 2 (2013)

Senior Character Modeller

My Little Pony Movie (2021)

Excellent working knowledge and wide experience in Cartoon Character Modelling
Good eye for adapting 2D drawing design into a CG model
High level experience and skilful in Modelling/Rigging Facials Expressions.
Great artistic quality to work on short deadline with the minimum of back and forth.
Notion in animation, search for the way to animate with accuracy by passion.
Work History

  • Character Modeller

    Territorial Games

    February 2025 - Present

  • CG Artist

    EMCI

    September 2024 - March 2025

  • Senior Character Artist

    Little Moon Animation

    October 2023 - July 2024
    Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

  • Lead Character Modeller

    Ink and Light

    June 2023 - September 2023
    Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

    Lead Character Modeller on a Tv Series
    ( Blender first experience in production )
    Character modelling and texturing.

  • Modelling Supervisor

    HARI

    March 2023 - May 2023
    Paris, Île-de-France, France

    Character Modeller Supervisor on a film project

  • Lead Character Artist

    Wild Child Animation

    August 2022 - February 2023

    On a Warner Bros project - Stopped -
    Implementation of generic topologies for humans and puppies (low/hi res)
    Facial blendshapes system with the rig team, using maya blendshapes nodes

  • CG Character Artist

    Wild Child Animation

    November 2021 - July 2022

    Character Modelling and texturing on "The Wind in the Willow" Tv series

  • Senior Character Modeller

    Jungler

    September 2021 - October 2021
    Paris, Île-de-France, France

  • Character Modelling Director

    Superprod

    September 2020 - June 2021
    Paris, Île-de-France, France · Remote

    Implementation of a facial blendShape system with the BCS tools (dpk.stargrav.com)
    A "human" generic topology (with low res model to facilitate the transfer / creation of facial expressions)
    Whole main characters package Supervising
    Managing a 5-6 people team on Spirit Rangers

  • Lead Character Modeller

    Giant Animation

    May 2020 - August 2020
    Dublin, Ireland · Remote

  • Senior Character Modeller

    Boulder Media

    November 2019 - April 2020
    Dublin, Ireland · Hybrid

  • Senior Character Modeller

    Illumination Mac Guff

    November 2016 - October 2019
    Paris Area, France

    On shorts ( Marketing Dept )

  • Senior Character Modeller

    TeamTO

    September 2016 - October 2016
    Paris

    Character Modeller on a Tv serie « Skylanders II »

  • Senior Character Modeller

    Illumination Mac Guff

    November 2015 - June 2016

    Character Modeller on an Animated feature film
    Directed by Yarrow Cheney & Pete Candeland

  • Senior Character Modeller

    Illumination Mac Guff

    May 2014 - October 2015

    Character Modeller on an Animated feature film «The secret life of pets»
    Directed by Yarrow Cheney & Chris Renaud

  • Character Modeller / Rigger

    NOZON / VFX-3D Animation

    October 2014 - May 2015
    Brussels Area, Belgium

    Modeling costumes, facial expressions and rigging 4 characters (hamsters) for an advertising campaign from Albert Hein Hypermarket

    Characters Rigging for the "Alpro" campaign.
    Characters Modeling & Rigging for the "Cosymel" campaign.

  • Character Modeller

    NOZON / VFX-3D Animation

    April 2014 - April 2014
    Brussels Area, Belgium

    Modeling (body and clothes ), facials expressions of the Squirrel for NIBBIT advertising campaign

  • Senior Character Modeller

    Illumination Mac Guff

    April 2013 - March 2014
    Paris Area, France

    Character Modeller on the Animated feature film « MINIONS »
    Directed by Pierre Coffin & Kyle Balda
    Character Modeller on shorts

  • Character Modeller

    Illumination Mac Guff

    November 2012 - February 2013
    Paris Area, France

    Character Modeller for shorts ( Marketing )
    Modelling pets and facials expressions (BCS) for shorts.

  • Character Modeller

    TeamTO

    August 2012 - October 2012

    Character modeling on the CG TV serie « Lanfeust» with Alphanime.

  • Character Modeller

    Cyber Group Studios

    July 2012 - August 2012
    Paris Area, France

    Modeling Characters and sets for a teaser « Kosmic Dancer »

  • Character Modeller

    nozon

    April 2012 - May 2012

    Modelling a baby's realistic face and facial expressions.

  • Modeling / Surfacing Artist

    Chez Eddy

    February 2012 - May 2012
    Paris Area, France

    Character modeling, texturing and facial expressions on a animated full-length film teaser : "Les Fantômes du Père Lachaise"
    http://www.chezeddy.com/en/projet/308/the-ghosts-of-pere-lachaise-feature-pilot

    Character modeling for an ad " LeLynx.fr"

  • Character Modeller

    Cyber Group Studios

    November 2011 - January 2012
    Paris Area, France

    Character modeller and facial expressions on the animated teaser "Zorro"

  • Character Modeller

    nozon

    October 2011 - January 2012
    Brussels Area, Belgium

    Modeling a realistic mosquito for a poster campaign.
    Modeling Hamster's facial expressions and props for ad "Albert Hein Hypermarket"
    Modeling, Rigging, Shave&Haircut; the "Duracell" rabbit.
    Modeling a realistic frog for a ad "Motillium"

  • Character Modeller

    Chez Eddy

    March 2011 - September 2011
    Paris Area, France

    Modeling a realistic rugby man for a TV visual for TF1 (World cup)
    Modeling and Texturing a realistic cosmonaut for a Web advertising campaign "CarteNoire"
    Modeling for an ad "Vico" : Character Modeling, facials expressions, props...
    Modeling / Surfacing Artist for the end credits of "Silent Hill II"

  • Modeling

    Toys Films

    April 2011 - June 2011

    Modeling for a medical application on Ipad-Iphone ( Hepatic surgery).
    http://www.tavae.com/downloads/LiverSP/
    Modeling for a poster campaign "Oasis"
    Modeling for a picture of skin's 5 layers for L'Oréal

  • Character Modeller

    nozon

    May 2011 - May 2011

    Modeling, rigging and Shave&Haircut; a Beaver.
    For a new campaign Chaudfontaine (A Belgian mineral water)

  • Character Modeller

    nozon

    January 2011 - February 2011

    Character modeling for the series pilot "Bo's Bazaar"

  • Senior Character modeller

    nWave Digital

    June 2010 - October 2010

    Character modeller for the stereoscopic full-length film" Dubai" :
    Sammy's Adventures II

  • Character Modeller

    Nozon Paris

    April 2010 - May 2010

    Character modeling for the series "Minuscule II"

  • Character Modeller

    nozon

    February 2010 - April 2010

    Character Models for an advertising campaign from Total

  • Character Modeller

    SHAX France

    January 2010 - February 2010

    Crudités Dans La Nuit
    [stopped]

  • Character Modeller

    nozon

    January 2010 - January 2010

    Modeling "Gogo's" for a Carrefour advertising campaign

  • Character Modeller

    Night Shift

    September 2009 - October 2009

    Character Models for the new advertising campaign from CanalSat directed by the Planktoon collective.
    Modeled Valentine and the four women of the parachutists.

  • Character modeling and Rigging

    nozon

    August 2009 - September 2009

    Modeling and rigging an octopus for for the new advertising campaign "Chaudfontaine"

  • Character Modeller

    Night Shift

    July 2009 - July 2009

    Modeling for advertising campaign "Fondation Maude Fontenoy" directed by the Planktoon collective.

  • Character Modeller

    Chez Eddy

    June 2009 - July 2009

    Character Models for the new advertising campaign from BelgaCom.

  • Character Modeller & Rigging

    nozon

    May 2009 - June 2009

    Character Models for the new advertising campaign from Albert Hein Hypermarket

  • Character Modeller

    method films

    May 2009 - May 2009

    Corrections on character "Le Petit Prince ".

  • CG Artist Character Modeling

    Attitude Studio

    September 2008 - March 2009

    Modeling for "La nuit des enfants Rois" ("The Prodigies")
    Modeling for "4 hoursemen"

  • CG artist Modeling

    nozon

    January 2008 - April 2008

    Modeling and Rig for commercials

  • CG artist Modeling & Facials

    Chez Eddy

    October 2007 - October 2007

    Caracters modeling and facials expressions for a comercial « Delhaize »

  • CG artist Modeling Facial Expressions

    Attitude Studio

    May 2007 - July 2007

    Creating Facial Expressions for Bourne Identity and Odyssey

  • CG Artist Modeling

    exvoto

    April 2007 - April 2007

    Organic modeling (Mudbox)

  • CG Artist Modeling

    INSIGHT GAMES

    November 2006 - April 2007

    Modeling for the card deck « Corunea » Low and Hight definition.

  • Characters modeller

    okidoki

    2006 - 2006

    « Badabop » Characters modeling and facial expressions for a TV series

  • Character modeller

    Attitude Studio

    2005 - 2005

    « Galactik Football » TV series 26 x 26 with Alphanime.
    Caracters modeling, texturing and facial expressions in "Cartoon" rendering.

  • Lead Modeller

    BL!NK Studio

    2004 - 2004

    « The Don'z » TV series 26 x 26 minutes.
    Characters modeling and facials expressions.
    [stopped]

  • Character Modeller

    XD Productions

    2003 - 2003

    « Merlin » Special TV (52 minutes)
    Characters modeling, facials expressions and texturing

  • CG Artist

    Antefilms Production

    2002 - 2002

    « Funky Cops » TV series 26 x 26 minutes
    Animation, modeling, rendering and compositing 2D-3D.

  • Junior Facials Expressions

    API Productions

    January 1999 - February 1999
    Paris Area, France

    Modeling facials expression for the series "Politiquement Correct"
    weekly broadcast on France 2

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Education

  • D.N.A.T.(National diploma of art and technical) - in Computer Graphic

    Ecole Regionale des Beaux Arts de Rennes

    1994 - 1998