Guillaume Picard

Tencent

Editorial Animation Director
2023-Today​

• Lead animation strategy and execution across Tencent IEGG

  • Sharkmob-Techland-Funcom-Grinding Gear Games-Digital Extremes

  • Turtle Rock Studios-10 Chambers Collective Joy Workshop

  • PlatinumGames-Sumo Digital-Yager-Digital Extremes-FatsharkStunlock 

• Aligning artistic direction with the project's goals.

• Evaluate project gates reviews evolution, direction and velocity.

• On request by the VP,

  • Travel to help projects in Europe and Asia  

  • Give support to correct misaligned production.

  • Provide guidance and share experience to team development,   

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Tencent-Next
SYNCED 

Animation Director

2022-2023​

• Animation Oversight: Supporting and managing the animation team.

• Quality & Pipeline: Improving animation processes and final quality.

• Shanghai Team Review: Directing and reviewing content for the Shanghai studio.

• Mocap Lead: Directing Mocap shoots in person (China) and remotely.

• Full Cinematic Ownership: Responsible for the entire pipeline:

  • Storyboards, Mocap planning and Direction.

  • Body and Facial animation editing.

  • UE5 Sequencer: Camera and animation integration.

• Documentation: Providing technical guides for the animation team.

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​Netease Montreal

Animation Director

2019 - 2022​

• Supporting recruitment for building the new Netease Montreal Studio.

• Improving animation quality on Naraka, FragPunk and other ongoing games

• Review animation content from my team in Montreal and in Hangzhou

• Directing Mocap shoot 

• Provide technical and artistic support for the team. 

• Project documentation to guide animation development

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Ubisoft 

Animation Director

For Honor Live

2017 - 2019

• Directing Mocap shoot

• Review content from my team in Montreal

• Review content from co-development with Shanghai

• Creating Animations system for gameplay

• Developing new animation tools and systems with programmer

• Teaching and supporting Motion Builder to different animators.

• Resource person for the use of Motion Builder at the production level.

• Assessing the best tools for production

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Assistant Animation Director,

FarCry 5

2017

• Supported the implementation and improvement of Motion Matching.

• Identified "quick wins" to improve production efficiency immediately.

• Took over Animation Direction to lead the project through the final stages of production.

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Assistant Animation Director, Fight system,

Assassin's Creed Origin

2016 -2017

• Directing the design of the animation system​​

  • Bayek Fight and Execution mechanic  

  • NPC Fight  ​

• Review content

  • from my team in Montreal

  • from co-development Ubisoft Sophia​

• Directing boss fight​

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Project Manager Animation 

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Assistant Animation Cinematic Director,

For Honour

2014 - 2016

• Creating and update Sprints, Milestones, and Backlog

• Update production schedule  ​

• Managing Jira entry 

• Identifying bottlenecks and solving the issue

• Track expenses to make sure the project stays on budget

• Performing in-depth animator evaluations.

• Supporting the artistic director in Mocap shoot

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Square Enix, Eidos Montréal  

Lead Animator, Unannounced title  

2013 - 2014 ​

• Creating animations system for gameplay

• Developing new animation tools and systems with programmer

• Resource person for the use of Motion Builder at the production level.

• Assessing the best tools for production

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Senior Animator, Thief and Unannounced title  

Square Enix, Eidos Montréal  

​2013 ​

• Supporting the artistic director in Mocap shoot

• Creating animations system for game play

• Developing new animation tools and systems with programmer

• Teaching and supporting Motion Builder to different animators.

• Resource person for the use of Motion Builder at the production level.

• Assessing the best tools for production

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Ubisoft 

Assistant Animation Director and Team Lead

RainbowSix Patriot

Ubisoft Montreal

​2010 - 2013

• Supporting the artistic director in various tasks

• Supporting animators at the artistic and technical levels

• Creating reference documents

• Listing and managing motion capture shooting

• Working in close cooperation with the Game Designers

• Creating fake game footage to establish vision

• Supporting animators at the artistic and technical levels

• Evaluating animators’ performances

• Establishing and monitoring the animator's objectives

• Producing animations when the workload is too heavy

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Animator/Senior animator

Ubisoft, Montréal

​2003 - 2010

• Contributed to the following games:​

  • Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction,

  • Far Cry 2, 

  • Lost: Via Domus,

  • Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2,

  • Open Season,

  • Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas

  • Myst IV: Revelation,

  • Prince of Persia: Warrior Within.

• Creation of marketing footage for EndWar and Lost, at Ubisoft Digital Art  

• Teaching Motion Builder to different Technical animators and animators.

• Resource person for the use of Motion Builder at the production level.

• Assessing the best tools for production 

 

 

 

Animation Teacher.

CEGEP Matane, Montreal

​2007 - 2009

• Teaching animation introduction class.

• Assessing and marking students’ skills.

• Evaluating students’work and exams