Hi, I'm Fouad Jeniani and I'm a Technical art director

Houdini for rigging R&D:
- Did and evaluation of new Houdini modular rigging system VS Maya existing tools at that time: at the end the result was presented at "UBISOFT Animation Days" event

Undisclosed and canned project:
- Started building Character and animation pipeline

Marvel's avengers (Game):
- Collaborate with other Animation TDs on other production site (at Crystal dynamics CA) on refining animation and
character tools and workflows.
- Building Motion builder – Maya full pipeline using Python.


Deus-ex mankind divided (Game): 
- Redefined the animation pipeline
- Helped re-organize the animation team and programing team work-flow: played a big role in
restructuring the teams around the full Scrum methodology and establishing clear priorities
in the animation – programming backlog.
- Established the character integration pipeline and monitored tools development for it.
- Established facial and in-game animation pipeline.
- Worked with LD technical director establishing a pipeline and tools for NPC social and
fighting system.
- Product Owner of the “Tech Animation and Character Rigging team”: doing follow-up of
production and organizing the Character rigging / tech animation scrum planning and stand
ups.
- Defining priorities for the scrum team to work on depending on the project priorities and
deliverables.

Batman origins (Game):
- Worked with the animation director to establish the animation pipeline and work-flow.
- Produced 3dsmax scripts to support established animation pipeline
- Collaborated closely with programmers to develop engine tools under UNREAL and to
establish optimization norms.
- Established skin and rig conventions.
- Rigged first facial model to be used for the full game.
- Did coaching for a team of three junior and senior technical animators.
- Studied FaceFx System and helped using it for in-game characters.
- Established facial rig for Image Metrics system to be used for cinematic.
- Communicated with mocap studio outsourcer to establish a mocap pipeline, and provided
them with the needed data.
- Provided support for animators to export and integrate mocap data for the “leading edge”
delivery date.
- Provided support for senior technical animators and riggers to export characters that
respect to the established animation systems.
- Organized animation tech meetings to access animator’s needs and communicate on
developed tools and systems.
- Integrated and tweaked simulation system on character hairs and cloth, using Physics and
Apex system in Unreal.


undisclosed brawler project:
- Used Morpheme to create full game animation system with Unreal engine.
- Developed 3dsmax scripts to support the animation pipeline and optimize animators
work.

Shaun White Skate (Wii Game):
- Managed a team of six animators.
- Did follow up on production schedule.
- Established a generic animation retargeting system with the programming team
support.
- Used TAG (an animation middleware to create animation trees) to build the in-game
character animation tree and system.
- Integrated a generic targeting IK system and center of mass for all characters, with the
help of programming team.


Naruto : Rise of the ninja ( X-Box 360 Game):
- Adapted full TAG 3dsmax pipeline to UBISOFT in-house engine named JADE: by
modifying the full Max-Script pipeline provided by the company software.
- Provided support for animators.
- Helped the animation director and programmers developing the animation system.
- Rigged, Skinned and exported all the game characters.


Surf's Up (Ps2 Game):
- Established Character and animation pipeline for the game.


Prince of Persia: the two thrones (PS2 Game):
- Did character skin, rig and export for all characters in the game.
- Helped on establishing and integrating Character FX.
- Provided support for animators.
- Helped developing a mixed animation – simulation system for the prince Belt.

Prince of Persia: the two thrones (FPP)
Super Donald "PK" (PS2 Game)
Rainbow Six "Rogue Spear" (PS1 Game)
Donald Quack Attack (N64 and PS1 Game)