Background
Sylvain, a graphic designer with more than 25 years of experience in digital graphic design and development.
I started to play with computer at the very early age of personal computers(1981), I was 11 at this time and never stopped hitting my fingers on a keyboards since then. Graduated from the School of arts in Poitiers (France) where I’ve been studying for 4 years all the aspect of video and digital creation.
During the next 25 years I’ve been involved, as a free-lance artist and as an employee (Creative director at SYSTONIC for 6 years) in a lot of projects, from interactive CD-Rom content creation in the late 90’s to diverse web corporate sites and applications including game (as a contractor for The Mad Monkeys Studio).
During the last 10 years, I’ve been mainly involved in the global communication of a high technology industrial company and its subsidiaries. Financial communication, 3D creation and video, as well as scientific illustration to explain complex industrial processes have been my every day work for this period.
Demo reel 2019
Skills
This long period of involvement in computer graphic creation allowed me to develop a lot of different and complimentary skills like 2D graphics (pixels and vector) for digital broadcasting and print, 3D creation (Modeling, shading, rigging, animation...), video production (live shooting, drone piloting, editing and compositing), object and interior design, UI/UX design and development in several script and compiled languages (Actionscript, javascript, python, perl, C# ...) for several kind of apps (Web server side and client side, flash games and sites, scripting for workflow design, and computer applications).
Today
As a freelancer, I’m today selling these skills to help my clients in achieving their communication needs with still and animated 3D illustrations, filmmaking and story telling, graphic design for their brand and /or corporate ID and I naturally turn my interest to virtual reality and 3D development of application with Unity as a general platform for 3D creation and application development.
Software expertise
. 3D creation (Modo, Unity)
• 2D creation (Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, Flash/Animator, Powerpoint, Keynote ...)• Video creation (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Compositor, Final Cut Pro ...)
. My long experience gives me the ability to easily adapt my practice to new softwares and dedicated workflows, and even to advise or design specific workflows
Language and development expertise
. Web client side (HTML/CSS/SVG Dom development, Ajax API’s, JSON/XML/XSLT, Bootstrap ...)
. Web Server side (ASP.NET C# & VB, PHP, Java, SQL, XML/XSLT ...)
. WEB CMS (Drupal 7.0, WordPress)
. Unity (C#, Javascript, Unity API)
. Modo (Python, Perl, Modo API) Beta Tester since MODO 101.
General expertise
. Team management
. Customer relationship (English spoken and written, fragments of spanish)
. Budget management
. Good hand drawing level
. Good scientific knowledge (Physics, maths, cosmology ...)
. Mac/PC (Mac prefered ;-)
Let’s meet and discuss your projects and needs, and see if a collaboration can start from there.
Thanks for reading.