Guillaume Picard

Tencent 

Animation Director

2022-Today

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Netease Montreal

Animation Director

2019 - 2022

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· Supporting recruitment for building a new Studio.

· Improving animation quality on Naraka and 3 other ongoing games

· Review 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

 

Assistant Animation Director,

FarCry 5

2017

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Assistant Animation Director (fight system),

Assassin's Creed Origin

2016 -2017

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Project Lead Animation and

Assistant Animation Cinematic Director, For Honor

2014 - 2016

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Square Enix, Eidos Montréal  

Lead Animator, Unannounced title  

2013 - 2014 

 

 

Senior Animator, Thief and Unannounced title  

Square Enix, Eidos Montréal  

​2012 - 2013

 

· Supporting 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 RainbowSix Patriot

Ubisoft Montreal

​2011 - 2012

 

· Supporting 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

 

 

Animation Team Lead Narrative RainbowSix Patriot.

Ubisoft, Montréal

​2010 - 2011

 

· Creating a reference video of the game 

· Supporting animators at the artistic and technical levels

· Evaluating biannually the animators’ performances

· Establishing and monitoring the animator's objectives

· Producing animations when the workload is too heavy

 

Senior animator/Motion Editor

Ubisoft, Montréal

​2003 - 2010

 

·   Contributed to 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 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 

 

 

 

Animation Teacher.

CEGEP Matane, Montreal

​2007 - 2009

 

·   Teaching animation introduction.

·   Assessing and marking students’ skills.

·   Correcting students’work and exams