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So last week I’ve been given the privilege to go to the Gamescom 2017 in Germany, to present our game Absolver to journalists of the world. I even got to present the game to a guy I used to watch regularly in a french video game site (I only saw him on screen before that ! ). I really can’t believe I’ve made it this far. This week I learnt that I’ve been given the title of : Animation Art Director in the credits of the game, which is huge.

I litterally came from, dropping out of engineering school as the worst element in history, spending 3 years in a 3D animation school I took by default, spending 1 year without any job nor opportunities and indebted by student loans, to this statue.

And even when I got recruited by the company. Everything was barebone at most. They only got the concept and no real concrete visual. I thought it would just turn out as a starting experience in a startup to get a necessary line to my CV. I didn’t really imagine we would make it this big for our first project. Personally, when I saw the amazing job the art team was doing on the visual, it put pressure on me. I felt like I needed to progress real’ fast in order not to weight them down with the animation. One year and a half (and a good amount of justified criticism in youtube comment sections) later, I kinda feel like crying when some people say that the animation was one of the thing that impressed them the most.