{"id":15482,"date":"2023-04-05T12:49:11","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T16:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quebec.ubisoft.com\/?p=15482"},"modified":"2023-04-05T14:25:47","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T18:25:47","slug":"profile-akim-milne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quebec.ubisoft.com\/en\/profile-akim-milne\/","title":{"rendered":"Together, We Are Ubisoft Qu\u00e9bec: Akim, Capture Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moving from Toronto to Qu\u00e9bec City is one thing, but doing so in March 2020, one week before a pandemic puts the entire world on pause\u2026 that\u2019s another!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Akim Milne, a capture artist at Ubisoft Qu\u00e9bec for the past three years, had a bumpy start to his new life in the Capitale-Nationale, to say the least.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I picked up my whole life to come here, left my wife in Toronto, moved in here, did my training for three days and then was told we\u2019re going to have to find a brand new way of working that had never been done before, because no one could be in the studio anymore. It was a pretty crazy time!\u201d recalls the friendly Torontonian between laughs.<\/p>\n

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Akim spent his first few months as a Quebecer confined to his apartment in Old Qu\u00e9bec, before discovering, neighbourhood by neighbourhood, all the (more or less) hidden treasures that the city holds.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was like an RPG! I came in at level\u00a01 and then the map slowly unlocked up for me. Every few months, I had access to a new zone,\u201d he laughs.<\/p>\n

But that didn\u2019t stop him from falling in love with the city, officially settling down with his significant other in the \u201cbasse-ville\u201d of Qu\u00e9bec\u2026 and quickly becoming a key player on our studio\u2019s marketing team.<\/p>\n

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Changing Course<\/strong><\/h2>\n

As a capture artist, Akim is the architect behind many of Ubisoft Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s gameplay trailers. Specifically, he captures and edits gameplay footage, much like a cinematographer who shoots footage in the field, before editing it to show it to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cA good example of this, and the first major asset I worked on, is the gameplay reveal video for Immortals Fenyx Rising<\/a>. That was a 10-minute gigantic piece that had some walk-through footage, it had narration, it showed off various gameplay systems, structure and combat. All of those gameplay clips were choreographed by a team, captured by me, and then edited together as a piece,\u201d he describes.<\/p>\n