I teach with the student’s goal and expectations in mind. Teaching is a chance for me to share my experience and discoveries, and to see someone evolve from them. It warms my heart to see students turn their curiosity into passion as they learn, and their vision into a tangible product.
I am a freelancer for various video game distribution and development companies. I work with different outsourcers and with programmers from different countries. I own a web design and video game firm and am a film critic.
During my career, I managed, integrated and created art for PacMan, Bejeweled 1&2, Tetris, Street Fighter 2, Skip-Bo, classic Disney games and about thirty other titles on different platforms, namely XBox, Playstation, iPhone, Android, Virgin Galactic technologies, airplane, hospital and prison consoles, for Archos, PC and embedded Flash. I am both a print and screen designer, having studied in graphic design, multimedia and 3D Animation with a focus on filmmaking.
2007 - DEC, 3D animation, La Cité collégiale, Ottawa, ON
1999 - DEP, graphic design, Compétences Outaouais, Gatineau, QC
1999 - Certificate in multimedia (90h), Compétences Outaouais, Gatineau, QC
La Cité collégiale, 3D Animation, Ottawa
Teacher in image processing, texturing and matte painting
Taught Photoshop, Maya, texture, matte painting and initiated to graphic design techniques; for a semester