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Vanessa Trepanier

@vanessatrepanier

Technical Artist at East Side Games, optimizing assets for The Office: Somehow We Manage and building tools for art pipelines.

Canada

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At East Side Games, I worked as an Intermediate Technical Artist on The Office: Somehow We Manage, optimizing assets and project files and reducing debt and binary. I also audited tools and workflows, standardized processes, and built asset templates for the art team.

Previously, I created and implemented assets for East Side Games’ LiveOps titles and worked on character animation, VFX, and shared production resources at Big Viking Games. Across these roles, I’ve contributed to mobile games including RuPaul Superstars, Trailer Park Boys: Greasy Money, and Fish World.

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Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Intermediate Technical Artist

East Side Games

Nov 2024 - Oct 2026 (1 year 11 months)

Audited tools, processes, and workflows, presenting recommendations to stakeholders and actioning findings. Optimized assets and project files, reducing debt/binary for 'The Office: Somehow We Manage', standardized workflows, and wrote documentation for ART.

Senior Production Artist

East Side Games

Feb 2021 - Nov 2024 (3 years 9 months)

Created character, prop, and background assets for all LiveOps titles, implemented and animated in Unity, and rigged characters in Spine. Served as technical point of contact, optimized art assets, and built/maintained standards and templates.

Asset creation Unity Spine Adobe Animate Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe XD Character Rigging Technical Support Documentation Onboarding IP Collaboration

Senior Artist & Animator

Big Viking Games

Apr 2012 - Aug 2020 (8 years 4 months)

Delivered high-quality assets with quick turnaround for LiveOps, animated characters, objects, scenes, and VFX, and created templates and shared libraries. Participated in hiring and onboarding, and managed outsourced assets.

2D Animation 3D Animation VFX Asset Management Outsourcing Onboarding Workshops Template Creation Shared Libraries

Game Artist & Designer

Pendylum Inc.

Nov 2011 - Mar 2012 (4 months)

Solo artist on a small development team, owning art processes, quality, and direction. Designed game concepts, wrote GDDs, and created 2D and 3D assets and animations for multiple projects.

2D Art 3D Art Animation Game Design GDD Writing Concept Art Pitching

3D Artist & Animator

Stir Fry Games

Jul 2011 - Nov 2011 (4 months)

Assisted in character and level design for the main project, created 3D assets and animations for props and enemy NPCs, and developed 2D splash screens and cutscenes.

3D Modeling 3D Animation Character Design Level Design 2D Art Cutscenes Narrative Development