Jan Almqvist

Jan Almqvist is a Swedish artist at Ubisoft. He was a part of the development team for Assassin's Creed: Odyssey working as a Senior Level Artist.

Biography

Early life and career

Jan Almqvist began his career as a 3D artist at ComputerHouse in Gothenburg, Sweden, creating character and unit sprites for the RTS game Vlad Tepes Dracula. He then worked at Auran Games in Brisbane, Australia, as a lead animator on the cancelled RTS/RPG game Harn: Bloodlines. In 1999, he joined Digital Animations as a 3D generalist, contributing to Ronaldo V-Football. Almqvist worked as a character animator at VIS Entertainment on State of Emergency and a music video for the Vengaboys. He co-founded Habitat North / Opus Games, where he served as producer and creative director, but the studio eventually closed. At Headfirst Productions, he led the animation team for Call of Cthulhu: Destiny's End. Almqvist joined Axis Animation, contributing to the short film Codehunters. He later co-owned EPOS Game Studios, leading design and art for Crash Commando. In 2011, Almqvist became a senior artist at Ghost Games, working on the Need for Speed franchise, including Rivals and NFS 2015.

Assassin's Creed

Almqvist joined Ubisoft Quebec in May 2017 and contributed to Assassin's Creed: Odyssey released in 2018. Created assets of his included; the backdrops, consisting of inaccessible terrain and meshes, volcanic biomes, landscapes and terrain, the landscapes of the Paradise Islands, further landscapes for the seasons of Summer and Spring, and lastly landscapes for the Deciduous Forest, and Arid landscape terrain. He then left Ubisoft Quebec in 2019, but returned to Ubisoft in September 2022 to work remotely as a Terrain Specialist.

Assassin's Creed credits

• Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (2018) — Senior Level Artist

External links

• Jan Almqvist's ArtStation profile