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ABOUT
SPARTH
Sparth (nicolas bouvier) has been an active artistic director and concept
designer in the gaming industry since 1996. Born in France, he now lives
in Dallas, TEXAS, working for IDsoftware.
Having had the privilege of travelling extensively at an early age to
such places as far afield as the USA, Singapore, China, France and Europe,
he was influenced greatly by the various cultures, and he enjoyed observing
people and making notes of all these tiny details of life that he was
witnessing. The varied influences are largely responsible for his multiple
creative passions, which range from space, to buildings, to robotics
and beyond.
There are no limits to his creativity when it comes to translating forms
and concepts. One of his greatest passion remains contemporary architecture,
of which he applies principles in his own art, with an experimental
and original approach. He also harbours a fascination for modern skyscrapers,
although he admits that he wouldn't be able to live too high above the
ground himself.
Sparth has contributed to the development of several released games
since 1997. Alone in the dark 4 (2001), Cold Fear (2005), and Prince
of Persia - Warrior Within (2004), and has participated with Darkworks-Studio,
to a lot of game projects in collaboration with large companies like
Capcom and Namco.
In 2003, he decided to leave Paris for Montreal in order to join Ubisoft
on their ongoing projects, Prince of Persia Warrior Within, as well
as Assassin's Creed. he left Montreal for dallas in october 2005.
During the last four years, Sparth has also been having an enjoying
career illustrating book covers. His images have been actively chosen
by publishers to adorn the covers of multiple french, and english authors.
When he is not working, he finds time to relax with his wife Lorene
and his two sons Arthur and Leopold.
AWARDS,
EVENTS & DEMOS
2006
- Expose
4 - Master award winner category science fiction.
2005 - Nominee
for The 2005 Game
Developers Choice Awards,
category "Character Design", for the works on Prince Of Persia:
Warrior Within (Ubisoft Montreal / Ubisoft Entertainment) - (march 2005)
2006
- Selected artwork for the "into
the pixel" 2006 Collection.
selection available here.
2006 - gnomon
workshop demonstration - Los Angeles, (february 2006)
2004 - Austin Conceptart workshop - the first large event organised
by massive black.
ONLINE
INTERVIEWS
2007 - assassin's
creed cgsociety production focus
2006 - interview
for Game
navigator (russia)
2005 - interview for graphic-tutorials.com
2005
- interview for CGCHANNEL
2005
- Question&answers
with CGTALK
2005
- interview with NAIMOKA (french)
TV
APPEARANCE AND INTERVIEWS
2004 - g4techtv - Inside Ubisoft and Prince of Persia
2 - ICONS treks to Ubisoft Montreal for an insider's view of Prince
of Persia 2
2004 - GAMEONE - making of - prince of persia warrior within (october
2004)
2004 - SPIKETV - exclusive inside look at the new holiday release by
Ubisoft, Prince of Persia Warrior Within. (12/10/2004)
2004 - GAMESPOT - interview related to Prince of Persia Warrior Within
(16/09/04)
2004 - IGN - interview related to Prince of Persia Warrior Within (13/09/04)
2001 - GAMEONE - FOCUS - making of "alone in the dark 4"
2001 - GAMEONE - darkworks studio - an inside look at the paris based
videogame development studio
PUBLISHED
PRESS
2001 - alone in the dark 4 - there has been a large
amount of edited materials concerning alone in the dark 4. selection:
Edge,
Joypad, Joystick, Playstation2, Playstation magazine, Psone, french
gaming press and worldwide. larger extracts here.
2004 - Prince of persia Warrior within - more than 30 magazines worldwide.
BOOKS
-
Concept design 2 (participation). five artworks featured. 2005.
book released by designstudiopress.
more information on their site.
- d'artiste
concept art - published by ballistic
publishing
-
Expose 3 (participation). creative talents of digital artists worldwide.
three personal artworks available. book released by ballistic
publishing
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Expose 4 (participation). creative talents of digital artists worldwide.
two personal artworks available. book released by ballistic
publishing
- Master award winner category science fiction.
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Illustrations with Photoshop: A Designer's Notebook - (participation)
- Les cahier du designer translated in english, available now in the
US and Canada - a tutorial book explaining the technical process of
several artists, using photoshop. publisher O'reilly,
computer books. (2005)
- Illustrations
avec Photoshop - les cahiers du designer - (participation) (2003)
- a tutorial book explaining the technical process of several artists,
using photoshop. editions eyrolles
- Prince of persia booklet. (participation) collector's edition art
book featuring 36 pages of art and developer commentaries.
- only available with Prince of persia - warrior within pre-orders.
(2004)
GAMES
2007 - Assassin's creed - Senor
Concept designer & illustrator, environment and characters. Ubisoft
Montreal.
2005 - Cold Fear - Darkworks studio - (produced
by ubisoft, release date march 2005) lead artist
and artistic director.
2004 - Prince
of Persia - Warrior Within - ubisoft 2004 - Senor Concept designer
& illustrator, environment and characters. release date: november
30 - 2004
2001 - Alone in the Dark - the new nightmare -
Darkworks - (produced by infogrames-atari) - lead artist and artistic
director. project started in 1998, released in 2001.
BOOK
COVERS
Fahrenheit 451- ray bradbury (french) (with benjamin carre) (2008)
The martian
general's daughter - theodore judson
- pyr books (2007)
Cenotaxis - sean williams - Monkeybrain books - (2007)
Brian Aldiss - croisiere sans escale folio SF (2007)
le pacte des barbares - Susan Price - Editions Pocket jeunesse
(2006)
Nouvelles tome 2 - philp k dick (2006)
Nouvelles tome 1 - philp k dick (2006)
Les guerriseurs de cathedrales - philp k dick (2006)
Glissement de temps sur Mars - philip k dick (2006)
l'echiquier du mal - dan simmons - tome 2 - editions gallimard
(2004)
l'echiquier du mal - dan simmons - tome 1 - editions gallimard
(2004)
Dune - La Maison
des Mères - Frank Herbert - editions Pocket (2005)
Dune - La Maison
des Harkonenn (Before Dune I) - Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson
- editions Pocket (2004)
Dune - La Maison des Atreides (Before Dune II) - Brian Herbert
% Kevin. Anderson - editions Pocket (2004)
Dune - les Heretiques de Dune (Heretics of Dune) - frank herbert
- editions Pocket (2005)
Dune - Maison Corrino (Before dune III) - Brian Herbert % Kevin.
Anderson - editions Pocket (2005)
Dune - Enfants de Dune (Children of Dune) - frank herbert - editions
Pocket (2005)
Dune - Empereur dieu de Dune - frank herbert - editions Pocket
(2005)
Dune - Messie de Dune - frank herbert - editions Pocket (2005)
Dune - Et l'homme crea un dieu - frank herbert - editions Pocket
(2005)
Dune 1 - frank herbert
- editions Pocket (2005)
Dune 2 - frank herbert - editions Pocket (2005)
histoire
du futur - Robert-A
Heinlein - Coffret 4 volumes - editions gallimard (2005)
L'homme qui vendit la Lune - Rober- A Heinlein - editions gallimard
(2005)
Les vertes collines de la Terre - Robert-A Heinlein - editions
gallimard (2005)
Révolte en 2100 - Robert-A Heinlein - editions gallimard (2005)
Les enfants de Mathusalem suivi de Les orphelins du ciel
- Robert-A Heinlein - editions gallimard (2005)
Le dernier des Templiers - Arthur Ténor - Éditeur : Hachette
(2005)
Perceval ou le conte du Graal - Anne-Marie Cadot-Coli - Éditeur
: Hachette (2005)
Les maitres des dragons (the dragon masters) - Jack Vance - editions
Denoel (2004)
Emphyrio - Jack Vance - editions Denoel (2004)
Delirium circus - pierre pelot - editions Denoel (2005)
Continents perdus - thomas day - editions
Denoel (2005)
Ariosto Furioso - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - editions gallimard (2003)
Darwinia - Robert Charles Wilson - editions gallimard (2003)
Pas de panique! (don't panic!) - Neil gaiman - editions gallimard
(2004)
Psychohistoire en peril I (Psychohistorical crisis) - Donald
Kingsbury - editions gallimard (2004)
Psychohistoire en peril II (Psychohistorical crisis) - Donald
Kingsbury - editions gallimard (2004)
L'enfant de nulle part - roger zelazny - folio SF ((2005)
Le sacre de glace (Maximum ice) - key kenyon - editions Fleuve
noir (2003)
Time opera - robert silverberg - editions Le Belial (2003)
le chateau de hurle
- Diana Wynne Jones - editions Pocket jeunesse (2005)
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