Nicholas Mainville

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ABOUT NICHOLAS MAINVILLE

Versatile Senior Designer highly effective at designing game systems, finding the fun and maintaining a creative vision. Player-oriented and an excellent communicator, loving to leverage his passion for games, technology and problem-solving-I am currently Design Technical Director at Gameloft on an upcoming project-I had the chance to be Game/Creative Director on the acclaimed Life Simulation/Adventure game called Disney Dreamlight Valley developed at Gameloft Montreal.As a Game Director on Disney Dreamlight Valley, my responsibilities entailed establishing the vision and creative direction for the game, designing & integrating content, while managing teams, deliverables and working with licensors and stakeholders.I have helped define the standard for future PC & Console games at Gameloft, while establishing foundation for a strong IP (Story, World) to allow scalability as a game as a Service-As a Technical Director (Technical Designer) at Ubisoft, I was in charge of planning the production and architecture of our tools and game systems. I worked closely with programmers and the design team to flesh out the designs while defining how to implement them, with a sustainable workflow and data structure. One my main strength is to be able to look at a pipeline and optimize it, reducing lead time by eliminating toil, and automating what can be automated-After a few years studying Multimedia, I completed my college diploma in 3D animation and image synthesis in 2010.I worked in the game industry for a while, doing (and then leading) tests at Enzyme Labs (QA) and at Ubisoft (Usability, Event Scripting & Level Design).I also worked as a Lighting Technical Director at ModusFX on video games cinematic and movie FX-Known Softwares : Visual Studio, Unity Engine, XCode, Perforce, Autodesk Maya, Softimage XSI, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere, GitLanguages : LUA, C#, Json, C++, Python, Java, Javascript, Objective-C, HTML