Nicolas Counil

Creating games and interactive experiences mostly with Unreal Engine

Teaching: Game Design Initiation Intermediate Game Design Advanced Game design Unreal Engine Initiation Unreal Engine Intermediate Advanced Unreal Engine Workshops

- Speaker for the french audience at the Unreal Engine Educator Summit: Virtual Production Fundamentals for Epic Games - Training Assistant at the Unreal Fellowship: World Building for Epic Games - Unreal Engine Virtual Production Workshop at Breda University for Epic Games - AICI workshop: Navigating Creative Industries with Generative AI - Unreal Engine introduction Workshop at Viborg the animation workshop for Epic Games - Unreal Engine Metahumans introduction Workshop at Helsinki XR Center for Epic Games - Unreal Engine Animation Workshop in October 2023 hosted at The Animation Workshop in Viborg - NXT GEN LAB Workshop hosted in Breda 2024 for PANEURAMA - NXT GEN LAB Webinar 3: "Storytelling, Teams & Tools" 2025 For PANEURAMA

Confidential Client / Undisclosed Project Worked as a consultant on a confidential project, helping teams clarify complex technical and creative problematics by providing real-time visualizations and simulations using Unreal Engine. The role focused on translating abstract challenges into clear, actionable visual insights to support decision-making and production alignment.

Tyler, The Creator × Fortnite – Video Content Collaboration As part of the collaboration between Tyler, The Creator and Fortnite, we contributed to the production of a short-form video created for YouTube and social media platforms. Our involvement focused on the technical direction and real-time production pipeline. This included: Sequence setup and implementation in Unreal Engine Technical supervision and debugging throughout production Ensuring performance, stability, and visual consistency for real-time rendering Talent sourcing In addition to hands-on technical work, we also assembled and coordinated key technical talent for the project, including: A Technical Lead A Character Rigger A VFX Artist This collaboration demonstrates our ability to support high-profile, real-time productions by combining Unreal Engine expertise, technical direction, and specialized talent sourcing.

Sombras

Teaching: Level Design Initiation Game Design

Teaching: Integration in game Level Design

Project management Management tool dev Internal training Consulting Strategic technical management Management of the technical processes evolution Technology survey Game director for Aevitas In charge of all the asset pack production on the unreal engine marketplace and the art station market place. Achieve to have 2 assets pack in “Showcase” on the unreal engine marketplace

Web3 Game - Game Design Document (GDD). - Develop early prototypes. - Define the user experience. - Help manage quality assurance testing, and follow up on feedback. - Define user interface, menus, and controls. - Iterating, play-testing, and analyzing user feedback and social metrics to adjust gameplay and design

Technical lead on the Aya Nakamura Experience (Fortnite) : Assets validation Integration Hair physics Rendering

On this project my role was to code and implement different features needed For Andy Nicholson team. I developped all the options avalaible within the tool Delivered two build of the tool (Windows and MacOS) I helped AOD Visual to create the Unreal Engine tool Electric eye for the Apple TV Plus show Constellation

In charge of a part of the Unreal engine render pipe for an undisclosed project Provide specific files for the compositing team, update game's assets Soft: -Unreal Engine 4 -Snowdrop Project: -Undisclosed -Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope

Learning prototyping and how to improve creativity through Gamemaker Studio 2 Project supervision and protoyping on Unreal Engine 4

FX, Design and prototyping Workshops Game Design supervising game design on Student's Projects

Player theory - Gameloop - Gameplay bricks - Game feel - Level design UI/UX Blueprints - Materials - Particles - Integrations on Unreal Engine 4

Game designer on Cranked Up Created more than 100 levels for Cranked Up Help to create next IPs for BBlack Studio Communication for social media

Virtual production: -Level building -Lighting -Rendering -Tool creation

As part of the shooting of the TV show "Grand soleil" of France télévision: -Prévisualisation on set -Optimization -Rendering -coordination with CG artist for 3D production -Setup scene on Unreal for Realtime tracking on set with the Halide Fx system -Formation of operators for quick modification of the unreal scene on set

Game designer on undisclosed project

Consulting on a learning game for Trixir: Game concept Game loop Player Theory

Integration and creation of content for Menu and GUI in PostScriptum