About - Etienne Boisseau

Etienne Boisseau

Senior Hard Surface Artist at Epic Games, Montreal, QC

Senior Weapons Artist working professionally in the industry for the past 12 years.

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Experience

Senior Hard Surface Artist at Epic Games: July 2024 – Present
Hard Surface Artist at Respawn Entertainment: July 2023 – July 2024
Weapons Artist on VALORANT at Riot Games: January 2022 – July 2023
-Creating new weapons designs and visuals for VALORANT as part of the in-house Premium Content team at Riot Los Angeles.

-Self-sufficient expert in the creation workflow from initial idea to final asset.
-Working with multi-disciplinary teams across multiple Riot studios worldwide, creating new original and innovative skin visuals for live content, including the record breaking Phantom Champions 2022-skin and other fan favorites.
-Modelling, texturing and rigging of principal marquee assets of new weapon themes to serve as asset creation guidelines for outsource propagation.
-Establishing best practices and solutions for 3D craft interpretation from provided concepts to successful gameplay functionality in 3D space.
-Contributing to weapon designs and outsource review daily meetings.
-Contributing to on-site skin jams and brainstorming sessions to create a library of future skin lines.
-Providing mentorship and feedback as well as documentation and walkthroughs.

VALORANT (2022)
Weapon Artist at Ubisoft Montreal: May 2020 – December 2021 Montreal, QC
Unannounced project

Hyper Scape. Game shipped in July 2020
-Contributed with the Barcelona-based team to create new regular and legendary weapon skins for live content.
-Acted as a point of contact in Montreal between the vendors, Barcelona and tech teams and helped review assets prior to integration.
-Helped conceptualize and tweak new assets to fit the gameplay needs and ensure proper functionality with the VFX and animations already in place.
Senior Hardsurface Artist at Gearbox Studio de Québec: September 2016 – May 2020 Quebec, QC
Worked primarily on Borderlands 3 vehicles. Game shipped September 2019
-Artist in charge of vehicles for Borderlands 3. Responsible for the complete modelling, texturing and integration of two of the three vehicles (Outrunner and Technical). Created all proxy meshes for the other vehicle (Revolver) as well as all upgrades on all vehicles.
-Contributed building the player-selectable vehicle skin workflow. Created all in-game skins for all 3 vehicles (over 80 skins)
-Interacted with other departments, including animation and programmation teams.

Worked on DLC1 & 2, creating lootable chests and other smaller props.

-Borderlands 3 - Shipped on September 13th 2019
-Borderlands 3 DLC1
-Borderlands 3 DLC2
-Unreleased Title (Weapon Artist)
Intermediate 3D Artist at Beenox (Activision/Blizzard): November 2012 – September 2016 Quebec
Shipped games :

Call of Duty : Modern Warfare Remastered
Call of Duty : Black Ops III (PS3)
Skylanders Superchargers
Skylanders Trap Team
The Amazing Spider-man 2
Skylanders SwapForce
3D Weapon Artist at Rising Storm Game: January 2012 – May 2013 Freelance
Shipped :

Red Orchestra 2 : Rising Storm

Multiplayer Game of the year Award 2013 – PCGamer
Rising Storm – #72 in IGN’s “Top 100 First Person Shooters”
Volunteer at Montreal International Game Summit: November 2011 – November 2011 Montreal, QC

Education

AEC - Video Games at Collège Inter-Dec: January 2011 – December 2011 Montreal, QC
Intensive 12-month program in Video Games that included game engine UDK, 3D modelisation in 3ds Max, Baking of high poly details on low poly mesh, Optimization of meshes, creation of high quality textures in Photoshop, etc.

Graduated with honors in December 2011.
N/A - Aircraft Conception at École Nationale d'Aérotechnique: 2010 – 2010 St-Hubert, Qc
Completed Courses :
Applied Maths in Aerospace
Blueprints
Materials
Structures
Turbine Engine Introduction
Introduction to Machining
N/A, Visual Arts at Cegep du Vieux-Montréal: 2009 – 2010 Montreal, QC
Completed courses in Spatial Organisation
Observation Drawing
Color Application
Art History
Photography
Participant at Camp Immersion Ubisoft 2009: 2009 – 2009 Montreal, Qc

Awards

2013: Rising Storm - Game of the Year, PCGamer
2013: Rising Storm – #72 in IGN’s “Top 100 First Person Shooters”, IGN
2011: Graduation with honors, Collège Inter-Dec

Clients

Beenox
Rising Storm Game

Skills

3Ds Max
Zbrush
Photoshop
3D Art
Texturing
Hard-Surface
Low Poly
Next and old gen optimisation
Baking

Etienne Boisseau

Weapons Artist on VALORANT @ Riot Games

Etienne Boisseau

Etienne Boisseau

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