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Things You Were Too Afraid to Ask: Olivier 'nosebone' Leonardi

Submitted by badman on Fri, 08/15/2008 - 18:07

For the latest installment of our award-avoiding series of staff interviews, we decided to dig our new Art Director Olivier 'nosebone' Leonardi out of the pile of Wacom tablets he's been hiding in ever since he arrived here. Olivier came to Splash Damage from UbiSoft Montreal where he art-directed several games including Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones and Rainbow Six: Vegas.

To find out about his work for UbiSoft, how and why he ended up at Splash Damage, and all those other things he doesn't want you to know about, read the full interview in this profile!

10 Comments

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Joe999
that's a very professional profile you've got there. may i ask when you joined SD? ( i'm not too afraid to ask: and also for which game? :D )
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Posted on 13 May, 2008 - 16:13
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Nosebone
Well, i joined SD in march this year, they had this reputation of being obsessed with Tapirs, and as i'm myself a tapir lover, i couldnt resist... we have great plans here for our next titles, world of tapir, pro evolution tapir, tapir wars, it's... amazing, endless possibilities... All Hail the :stroggtapir: !!!!
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Posted on 13 May, 2008 - 18:29
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jRAD
See how quickly the brainwa...I mean, "education" process works?
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Posted on 13 May, 2008 - 18:57
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Locki
See how quickly the brainwa...I mean, "education" process works?\
How do you know about that??!?! :)
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Posted on 14 May, 2008 - 12:41
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kamikazee
Tapirsense.
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Posted on 14 May, 2008 - 18:28
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Salteh
Tah.........piiiii-iiiiiiiii-iiiiiiir! :stroggtapir:
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Posted on 15 May, 2008 - 22:41
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Nick Thomas
Heyy Oliver, you have noo idea how influential your art has been onto me and i want to start working/drawing in that 'exaggerated proportion' kind of way. But, as youve been saying all along, its unique, so i cant seem to find anything that even remotely resembles a cross between hyper-realism and caricature. I was just wondering if you could guide me somehow into learning how to draw/design in the way that you do. Thanks, Nick. :eek:
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Posted on 19 February, 2011 - 10:00
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brbrbr
extremely short "interview". no dev contrib highlights. no gamedev opinions. no secret insight&etc. so aside from being used in resume, practically pointless[2 read]. quick jump into biography and few lean-rolls[in fire] asides and thats all.
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Posted on 21 February, 2011 - 11:08
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Hamlet29
Hi guys. I'm spanish, from A Coruņa. I told my friends about Brink so we have pre-ordered the game. We are eight, jeje, a full team. I donīt remember the last time i was so excited waiting for a videogame. Thank you, Olivier, thank you and thanks for every guys of Splash Damage. I saw all videos and theyīre amazing. Your phrase is the best, colour is back in shooter games!! Jeje, great. If you want to visit A Coruņa ask to me. I donīt speak english very well (Spain is Spain) but iīll invite you to eat... mmm seafood. Salut! :)
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Posted on 14 April, 2011 - 20:33
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Hamlet29
Ups, i forget it. Where can i get t-shirt of Revolution begins - Brink?
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Posted on 14 April, 2011 - 20:47