Hi!🤙

Finished my Bachelor degree in Software Engineering at the HE-Arc, Neuchâtel 🇨🇭. I was taught software design, patterns and a variety of languages and frameworks.

My bachelor project was made in collaboration with Z1 Studio and the NIFFF. It is called Horao and I was in charge of building an OSC manager to transmit face-tracking data coming from an Intel camera to the rendering engine.

Did my civil service at the Ecological Engineering Laboratory, EPFL. I was tasked to do a fluid simulation of Lake Geneva in Python, an instrument controller in C++ on an Arduino that lived for 6 months at the bottom of the lake and a Website to visualize where and when data has been collected on a map.

Moreover, this service was an opportunity to collaborate with doctors and post-docs from around the world on a variety of scientific projects.

This year I also organized the LearnIT Event which you can read more about here.

I joined Quantic Dream as a Motion Capture (Mocap) Pipeline Developer. I was responsible of any process related to producing an animation using Motion Capture, from their planning to their integration in-engine.

In 2019 I started my work there by revamping the tools to define where, in any given take that we shot on set, the animation actually started and finished. This process used to take hours, break easily and bottleneck the pipeline. Nowadays, it just takes a few seconds and is barely an afterthought.

A new production management tool was introduced at Quantic this year: Flow (previously Shotgun, then Shotgrid). This tool had to be heavily adapted to fit our pipeline and workflows and I wrote an Python library to better access its API from our various tools.

Read more about this here.

I started the development of my biggest project at Quantic Dream: an automatic Mocap retargeter.

With the automatic retarget, the Lead animator could, in a single click, gather all the animations that were shot for a day, calibrate them, retarget them using Motion Builder and export them to Maya and the engine. Read more about it here.

My second biggest project at Quantic was the Live Motion Capture manager, for which development started soon after the automatic retarget gave good results for the bulk of our animations.

The Live manager is a Motion Builder plugin that lets the user create a 3D reconstruction of whatever is happening on set, in realtime. This lets us get a good idea of how our characters move relative to each other and to the level. Read more about it here.

The year 2022 was a year of learning. While continuing the development of the previous tools and projects, I could learn the ins and outs of devops and fullstack web development through docker, Postgres, FastAPI and VueJS.

The teachings of the previous year came to the rescue when Flow unexpectedly stopped supporting a key part of our pipeline: event-based workflows.

The solution for this issue was to replace the missing support with a full stack website, built with Django, Postgres and Vue. This website was tasked to receive webhooks from Flow and process them asynchronously. Read more about it here.

The year at which I quit my job to launch Game Dev Space, an online platform dedicated to improve the development environment of game developers.

After 5 years in the AAA industry, I wanted to bring back what I learnt from it to a more varied audience. The swiss game development community is very dear to me and I hope I'll be able to leave a positive mark there by helping others build there games in good conditions. Read more about it here.

I also started teaching game development and tools programming at the SAE Institute Geneva.