Nicolas Riviere's Resume

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Professional experiences :
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-Ready At Dawn Studios (Irvine, Usa)
November 2004 - November 2010 (6 years)

God of War: Ghost of Sparta (Sony PSP®) - Cinematic Supervisor

- Cinematic Lead: Co-directing cinematic sequences and scheduling, supervising animation and managing a small team.
- Layout and camera animations of all cinematics (Autodesk Maya).
- Took care of the render pipeline and asset integration into the game's engine.
- Video and sound Editing (Adobe Premiere) and all post-production effects (Adobe After Effects).

God of War: Chains of Olympus (Sony PSP®) - Cinematic Supervisor
- Cinematics Lead. Co-directing cinematic sequences and scheduling, supervising animations and managing a small team.
- Layout, character and camera animation (Autodesk Maya).
- Took care of the render pipeline and asset integration into the game's engine.
- Video and sound Editing (Adobe Premiere).

Daxter (Sony PSP®) - Cinematic artist
- Layout, character and camera animation for half of the cinematics (Maya).
- Final Editing (Adobe Premiere).
- Some Ingame character animation.

-Tiwak Studio (Montpellier, France)
November 2001 - October 2004 (3 years).

Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter (Xbox 360®) Lead Technical Animator.
- Creating and preparing the pipeline for the character animation team and motion capture team during pre-production.

TORK: Prehistoric Punk (Xbox®) - Animator
- Realtime cinematics' Co-director, Layout and Animator.
- In-game Animator (NPC & Bosses).

-Kalisto Entertainement (Bordeaux, France)
November 1999 - October 2001 (2 years).

4 Wheel Thunder - Midway (Sega Dreamcast®)
- Cinematic Animator, Technical Animator and Layout.
"Haula$$" - game prototype (Sony PS2®)
- Cinematic Animator.
Legende de Callisto - special company's Birthday movie.
- Director, Layout.
"Sidhe" project (Sega Dreamcast®)
- Animator, Layout.
"Furies of the furies" project (Sony PS2®)
- Cinematic Animator.
"Highlander Online" project (PC)
- Cinematic character Animator.
- In-game character Animator.
"Dark Earth" game prototype (Sony PS2®)
- In-game character Animator.
"Gadget Tinies" game prototype (Sony PS2®)
- In-game character Animator.

- Hades Production (Belgium)
Novembre 1999 ( 2 weeks mission)

Animation, Mapping, Modelisation in pre-production for a "Quake-Like" (3dMax 2.5)

- Gribouille (Angoulème, France)
Octobre 1999 (4 weeks mission.)

Animation, Motion Capture improvement on a "cultural" video-game (3dMax 2.5)

- l'Usine à Images (Valenciennes, France)
Summer 1998 (Two Month Training course)

Softimage 3d learning. (Lay-out and some animations)
Following-up advancement of a young children cartoon's pilote
(graphic works, Story-board, advises).

- l'Usine à Images (Valenciennes, France)
Summer 1997 (Two Month Training course)

2d Graphist for yong children cartoon's pilote.
(Advises, Story-board).

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Studies :
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- 1996 to 1999
SupinfoCom. (Valenciennes, France)
Second preparatory year then 1st and 2nd year of the infographic cycle .
Realisation of a C.G. sort-movie on 3ds Max 2.5: "Ethyl'hic."
http://ethylhic.online.fr
- 1995/1996
Académie Julian (E.s.a.g. Penninghen) in Paris (France).
- 1994/1996
I.U.T. Informatique (programing bases) in Montpellier (France).
- 1993/1994
Setting level in drawing in a School of art (Cours Bessil) Montpellier (France).
- 1993
Graduate: Bac. D in Biology (Montpellier, France)

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Languages:
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- English (Fluent).
- French (Native)
- Italian (Beginer)