Gilles Beloeil

Gilles Beloeil is a Senior Concept Artist and digital matte painter at Ubisoft.

Biography

He initially began his career in 2002 with 4-Elements Studios, in Montreal, Canada, on several TV projects and commercials. However, Beloeil has expanded to work with quite a number of different companies throughout the world in both advertising, film, and the computer gaming industry.

In 2007, he began working as a concept artist and digital matte painter for Ubisoft, and since then has worked on many games in the Assassin's Creed series, such as Assassin's Creed, Assassin's Creed II, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Assassin's Creed: Revelations, Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy and Assassin's Creed III.

In addition to this, he has worked on game cinematics for Assassin's Creed, Far Cry 2, EndWar, the Assassin's Creed: Limited Edition Art Book and the Ubisoft short film Assassin's Creed: Lineage.

Games credited

Assassin's Creed (Concept Artist, 2007) - Ubisoft
EndWar (2007) - Ubisoft
Far Cry 2 (2008) - Ubisoft
Assassin's Creed II (Concept Artist, 2009) - Ubisoft
Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy (Concept and Matte Artist, 2010–2011) - Ubisoft
Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Concept Artist, 2010) - Ubisoft
Assassin's Creed: Revelations (Concept Artist, 2011) - Ubisoft
Assassin's Creed III (Concept Art, 2012) - Ubisoft

Filmography

Pinocchio 3000 (Lighting Team Lead, 2003)
La dernière incarnation (3D All-rounder, 2004)
Alone in the Dark (Lead Lighting, 2004)
Charlie Jade (Digital Matte Painter, 2004) - TV series
Final Destination 3 (Sequence Lead Lighting, 2005)
Fantastic 4 (Lighting TD and Sequence Lead Lighting, 2005)
Happy Feet (Lighter/Compositor, 2006)
Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D (Sequence Lead Lighting and Concept Artist, 2007)
Assassin's Creed: Lineage (2008–2009) - Ubisoft

Trivia

Beloeil's talent as an artist have been widely recognized, which is complemented by his diverse understanding of different software mediums, such as Adobe Photoshop, Autodesk Softimage XSI, Autodesk Maya, Digital Fusion, Adobe After Effects, Shake, and Renderman, all of which Gilles boasts an expert level of proficiency with.
Beloeil has worked alongside Alexandre Amancio on Far Cry 2. Both he and Amancio were noted to have revolutionized the 3D piping effect of background images with their innovative designs. Adding to this, Beloeil has also worked very closely with Raphael Lacoste to create accurate imagery of historical monuments and street layouts throughout Constantinople by actually visiting the modern-day city (Istanbul).