With Meet The Team, Draw Me A Pixel introduces you to the people behind its games. We promise, no one bites. At least not yet!
I am a 3D animator. Iam the one who makes the characters move, who gives them life. I also sometimes work on the rig, i.e. the character's skeleton, depending on my needs.
I've just completed five years of 3D animation at Waide Somme, an animation and video game school in Amiens. Alongside my studies, I spent two years working on a hybrid documentary, Sang d'Encre, which follows the journey of a young man suffering from leukemia. For two years, I supported the project and directed the animation team responsible for feeding certain passages of the documentary.
Once I'd graduated and Sang d'Encre had been nominated at several festivals, I was hired as a game artist and game developer at the mobile video game studio where I'd done my end-of-study internship: Pinpin Team. I liked the versatility of the job and the team of cheerful “Pinpins”, but the projects, commissioned by external publishers, and the pace of production didn't leave much room for creativity. So I set out to find an independent studio.
My quest lasted almost a year, during which time I self-published a zany comic strip with a friend (it's called Commissaire Poisson, for the curious). I was beginning to despair: offers were few and far between, and rarely associated with a project I liked. Then, one fine summer's morning, I received a positive response to a particularly interesting offer I'd applied for: from Draw Me A Pixel. And here I am!
Worst: having to be constantly inspired and focused, not so easy! I have to be extremely rigorous without losing my spontaneity... It's a real masochistic job!
Best: when I give life to a character, I feel like a goddess who gives the breath of life to her creatures (modesty be damned, but don't forget: it's still a masochistic job!).
You're going to laugh! I haven't finished the game, I'm stuck on ice in space!
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension: A perfectly natural landscape.
I love Point & Click, puzzle platformers and survival games. My favorite games include Inside, Little Nightmares, Don't Starve, Kingdom: New Lands, Hollow Knight (but I'm crap, so I didn't get very far), Among Us (because as well as being a masochist, I'm probably a bit of a psychopath), and the one I spend the most time on: Minecraft.
First of all, I'd need someone to talk to about it! Out here in the countryside, cows aren't exactly the most receptive audience...
We don't know if there will be any cows, but there will definitely be at least one sheep in Crushed In Time!