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Hello, my name is Mia Bourguignon, I use she\/ her pronouns, and I am from Woodstock, NY (yes, that<\/em> Woodstock). I am a senior Interactive Media and Game Development major, pursuing a concentration in Technical Art. Art has always been a large part of my life, to the point where I accidentally applied to a college after googling, “How to 3D Animate,” (My parents were quite surprised when they received a call from Full Sail University asking for their, at the time, 6 year old daughter). Despite the fact that art has always had a huge place in my life, I did not actually intend to pursue art as a career. I had grown accustomed to hearing that, “you can’t succeed with art as a career; just do it on the side!” Throughout high school and early college, I followed that advice religiously, focusing only on computer science while occasionally dabbling in some art commissions when I had the time. Something was clearly missing, though. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was when I found out about technical art: something that combined my two interests in computer science and art creation. I started working full force with pipeline development (helping to co-author a motion capture to Unreal Engine pipeline, as well as creating some others of my own), character rigging, VFX, scripting and automation in Maya, real-time motion capture into game engines, implementation of art assets, material creation and manipulation, custom shader development, programming of animation blueprints, painting skin weights, and manual retopology, to name a few. My ultimate dream is to use these skills to eventually become a technical director for a large animation or game studio. With encouragement from my mentor, I have started to create tutorials for others to follow, in hopes of getting my name out there as a skilled technical artist. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although I consider myself to be very proficient in working with models following their creation, I am hoping to improve my skills when it comes to actually creating the models. I have not taken many dedicated modeling courses, so I hope that, with practice, I can become a more proficient character and environmental modeler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am grateful to have worked as a technical artist on several games at this point, most of which utilizing Unreal Engine.
My Experience is as Follows:<\/strong>
-Character rigger in Scoops: A Story of Samples (Unity)
-Motion Capture\/ VFX artist in Clean Sweep (Unreal)
-Pipeline Development in Clean Sweep (Unreal)
-Technical Director of Chord Clash (Unreal)
-Technical Director of Shinsekai Arcade (Unreal)
-UI Designer of Roller-Ball (Python\/ Pygame: Physical Game Utilizing a Screen and Robots)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In terms of other creative arts I practice, I am a member of the WPI club cheerleading team, and dance is my favorite part! In addition, I am also the step-mistress for Theta Nu Xi Multicultural Sorority, Inc.’s Alpha Lambda chapter here on WPI’s campus. As step-mistress, I teach members our national step, how to stroll, and most importantly: the history of stepping in relation to Divine 9 and Multicultural Greek letter organizations. I also enjoy singing and playing instruments!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many games have inspired me throughout my life, especially the following:<\/strong>
-Ace Attorney
-Ghost Trick
-Undertale
-Project Diva
-Pokemon Gen 2 Remake (Heartgold\/ Soul Silver)
-Kirby’s Return to Dreamland
-Persona 3 Reload and Persona 5 Royal
-A Hat in Time
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