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Game
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Student
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Brice Vandemoortele
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Haute École Albert Jacquard
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Namur, Belgium |
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CG Art Bachelor |
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Courses:
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Lowpoly modeling; Lowpoly texturing, including consoles (colour reduction, very small textures, ...); Rigging/setup; Animation (CS, maya); Concept design and illustration, life drawing; Highpoly modeling for normal/displace mapping; LUA scripting, A* notions |
| Website: |
http://www.mentalwarp.com/~brice |
| Email: |
brice@mentalwarp.com |
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| Bio: |
Brice Vandemoortele is a young Belgian student. When he started his bachelor in Namur he first planned to work in press and logo design. But he quickly got interested more in his 3D courses then typography and decided to go for the videogames curriculum. Next year will be the last one in a cycle of three years, where he'll have to produce a playable demo with a group of other students.
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| Inspiration:
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There is countless number of talented artists I could name (Jon Foster, Nicolas "Sparth" Bouvier, Nathan Campbell, John Wallin Liberto, and so on...). But there are several artists who have been references for me for a long time like Brian Froud, Jean-Baptiste Monge & Erlé Ferronnière and M.C. Escher. For my personnal work I like to take inspiration from real life and nature. Rocks, smoke, but especially tortuous roots, lichens, and rusted pieces of metal are great sources of shapes and patterns. Some old ladies fear me as I stare at them in the bus like "Oh! oh! Interesting wrinkles!"
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Why
I Want to Get into the Industry:
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Err.... world peace.
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| Favorite
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First thing that comes to my mind is the "OST" of an old Atari game Full Metal Planet by Stéphane Picq, the best ever... *sniff*. But more recently, I really liked the look of Final Fantasy Chronicles. Textures and characters look amazing in God of War and Timesplitters 3 had such a cool storyline!
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I Can't Live Without: |
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Grass to walk on, the sky to look at... Oh yeah... and I want this Phantom/ClayTools pack!
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| Music I Listen to While Working: |
Dangerous question. I like many styles, but mostly electronic music, especially psytrance/goa. Independently from my mood or the kind of work I switch from FullOn to ambient goa, dutch trance, folk, ska, metal. Best examples are Shpongle, Dino Psaras, Tiesto - In search of Sunrise, Space Cat, Paul Oakenfold, DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo, Astral Projection. |
| Favorite Book: |
Robert Heinlein - The Door Into Summer I read a long time ago left me a very good impression, as so many others...
The Art of War, by Sun Tzu is also a very interesting book in a radically different style. |
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Another question with no unique answer isn't it? Then I'll cite the ones I've watched all my childhood when my parents were bored and that I can't live without now: Willow by Ron Howard and Dark Crystal by Frank Oz and Jim Henson.
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