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Quentin Papleux

Quentin Papleux

Sr Expert Lighting Artist at Beenox

Québec, Canada

quentin.papleux@gmail.com

Summary

Discover, learn and grow in the art of creation. My passion is building worlds and make them believable.

I am working on video games as Senior - Lighting Artist / Level Builder / Tech Artist since 13 years. I am also working with Unreal engine since +10 years. I am mainly oriented in Look Dev and Photo direction (Final shot, lighting & compositing).

Skills: Real Time ( UE5 / UE4 / Unity / Cry-Engine, In-house engines ), Photogrammetry/Cartoon, Shading ( Substance / PBR ), Compositing, Lighting, Rendering, 3D Modeling, R&D/Look Dev, Optimization...

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Skills

Software proficiency

Unreal Engine

Unity

DaVinci Resolve

Blender

3ds Max

Substance 3D Painter

Substance 3D Designer

Photoshop

Illustrator

Premiere

After Effects

Reel

Productions

- Video Game
  Call of Duty : Black Ops 6
- Year
  2024
- Role
  Sr Expert Lighting Artist
- Company
  Beenox
- Video Game
  Call of Duty : Modern Warfare III
- Year
  2023
- Role
  Expert lighting artist
- Company
  Beenox
- Video Game
  Call of Duty : Modern Warfare II
- Year
  2022
- Role
  Expert lighting artist
- Company
  Beenox
- Video Game
  Call of Duty : Vanguard
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Expert lighting artist
- Company
  Beenox
- Video Game
  Hood: Outlaws and Legends
- Year
  2021
- Role
  Senior lighting artist - Support
- Company
  Sumo Digital
- Video Game
  Spyder
- Year
  2020
- Role
  Senior lighting artist - Support
- Company
  Sumo Digital
- Video Game
  Sackboy: A Big Adventure
- Year
  2020
- Role
  Senior lighting artist
- Company
  Sumo Digital
- Video Game
  Shiness
- Year
  2017
- Role
  Level Artist / Lighting artist / Tech Artist / Environment artist
- Company
  Enigami

Experience

Sr Expert Lighting Artist at Beenox (Activision-Blizzard)
Québec, CA
March 2024 - Present
- Call of Duty Black Ops 6
Expert Lighting Artist at Beenox (Activision-Blizzard)
Québec, CA
July 2021 - February 2024
- Call of Duty : Modern Warfare III

- Call of Duty : Modern Warfare II

- Call of Duty : Warzone Pacific
Sr Lighting Artist at Sumo Digital
Sheffield, United Kingdom
December 2017 - June 2021
Head/Lead lighting artist on SB. Lighting/Rendering/Tech/R&D on Sackboy: A Big Adventure [...]

BAFTA Award for Best British gameand Best Family game.

Supporting art/tech lighting for different projects of the company (Sheffield projects/teams: Spyder (IOS) & Hood (Multi platforms). Tool strategy and lighting workflow for the project.

More infos on : http://www.quentinpapleux.com
Mid - Level Artist / Lighting Artist / Tech Artist & Partner Co-funder at Enigami
Tourcoing, France
January 2013 - December 2017
Head of environments creation (Level art & technical).

== Level Artist / Environment artist / Tech Artist / Lighting Artist ==

o Modeling lowpoly, UVW, Texturing

o Shading / Material

o Environment Building

o Landscape modeling & Painting

o Lighting (Environment / Game & Cinematic)

o Post-Process

o Rendering Optimizations (Draw / GPU / PC, X1, PS4)

o Visual Script (Kismet)

o Environment VFX & Gameplay VFX clean

o Final look / Clean

o Technical writing, back up.

Article about my work on Shiness : https://80.lv/articles/building-environments-for-a-cartoon-game/

Projects:

Enigami

o Shiness (PC, X1, PS4) / Action RPG

o Foodfight XVI (PC, X1) / Multiplayer Party Game - Cancelled

o Maât (Android, Ios) - Puzzle Game - Cancelled

o Unannounced project - Action RPG

o Unannounced project - MMO/RPG

Co-Prod with Ekstra-Reality

o Studio Director (AR, Unity, iOS)
Junior 3D Artist at Enigami
Tourcoing, France
April 2012 - January 2013
Modeling/Texturing Environment/Props/Characters on Shiness (PC, X1, PS4)