Embark | Niels
Niels Vaes
Belgium
Tech Animator @ Embark Studios
https://niu-games.carrd.co/
Tech Animator @ Embark Studios
https://niu-games.carrd.co/
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Hi I'm Niels Vaes 👋,

I'm a technical animator from rainy ol'​ Belgium. I worked on projects like ARC Raiders, THE FINALS, Battlefield V, Battlefield 2042, Liftoff, Order of Battle and others. My experience stretches from very small indie games, to big mobile games and AAA PC and console titles. While at EA DICE, tech that I worked on was also used on Star Wars Battlefront 2. I have made several open source projects that are being used by other technical artists and animators across the industry.

With over a decade's experience in the gaming industry, I've really grown extremely proficient in:
- Autodesk Maya
- Building custom animation rigs
- Skinning
- Procedural animation, cloth and dynamics
- Animation and character tool creation in Python and Qt in Maya and Houdini
- Setting up pipeline and workflows for full characters, faces and animations
- Connecting DCC programs and game engines
- Process automation

I have professional experience in Unreal Engine, Unity, as well as proprietary engines like Frostbite.


GitHub [github.com]
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Recent Activity
207 hrs on record
last played on 11 Dec
207 hrs on record
last played on 11 Dec
261 hrs on record
last played on 11 Dec
Gatsby 8 Dec @ 11:42am 
s on of a b itch
Henker 8 Dec @ 9:01am 
arc dev spawn camping people XDDDDDDDDD
Henker 8 Dec @ 9:00am 
spawncamping ♥♥♥♥♥ if its your friend dont trust your kids with him
Manni Gerro 4 Dec @ 4:12pm 
grown ass man in his 30s being a little ♥♥♥♥♥ in videogames
Manni Gerro 4 Dec @ 4:07pm 
i wish you the actual worst. literally. how can someone play so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥like in a game. you will die alone and not a single soul will remember or miss you
unnamed 4 Dec @ 4:06pm 
Scum player, everybody went for the Matriarch and he came by after we destroyed it and killed us