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Ntamak (Fabrice Nzinzi)
Ntamak (Fabrice Nzinzi)
Director _ Art director _ Visual development
Lille, France

Summary

Fabrice Nzinzi, also known by his pseudonym Ntamak, has been active in the graphic design industry for over 20 years.
He holds a BTS in Visual Communication and a DMA in Traditional Animation Drawing from ESAAT (Roubaix). He began his career at Studio Poulain (Lille) as a print and web graphic designer, before gradually moving into freelance work in animation, animated series visual development, video games, and illustration.

As a freelancer, Fabrice has collaborated with several major players in the video game sector, including Ubisoft Owlient, Bigben Interactive, Black Sheep Studio, Shueisha Games, Tokkun Studio, and I Got Game. In the animation industry, he has worked with France 3 Paris, Les Armateurs, Andarta, La Chouette Compagnie, Samka Production, TeamTO, and IP4U, offering his recognized expertise.

Alongside his freelance activities, Fabrice was employed at Ankama for nearly 14 years. Within this major company in the Hauts-de-France region, he contributed to the development of the MMORPGs Wakfu and Dofus, before taking on key roles as art director, lead animator, lead background artist, and character/props/background designer across both the game and animation divisions.
Specializing in visual development, he notably served as art director for the animated series Maxi Mini, Mini Wakfu, Dofus: Kerub’s Treasures, Wakfu Season 3, and Abraca. Co-author of the visual bible for the film Dofus, he also directed the animated series Abraca and Wakfu Season 3. Before leaving Ankama, he worked as art director on the game Waven, scheduled for release in 2023.

Just prior to joining Special Touch Studios, Fabrice held the position of lead art director at Celsius Online (Paris) and Vertical (Tourcoing).
In this role, he also collaborated with other renowned studios such as Atlas V, Shiro Games, The Sandbox, and Zeptolab.

Driven by a strong passion for knowledge sharing and personal development, Fabrice has been a regular lecturer at ECV Lille since 2018.

Skills

DirectorArt DirectionVisual DevelopmentConcept ArtIllustrationCharacter Animationbackground2D Animation

Software proficiency

Procreate
Procreate
Photoshop
Photoshop
Premiere
Premiere
After Effects
After Effects
Illustrator
Illustrator
Flash
Flash
InDesign
InDesign
Dreamweaver
Dreamweaver
PaintTool SAI
PaintTool SAI
CLIP STUDIO PAINT
CLIP STUDIO PAINT
Storyboard Pro
Storyboard Pro
QuarkXPress
QuarkXPress
Unity
Unity

Productions

    • Movie
      Melvile
    • Year
      2027
    • Role
      Director
    • Company
      Special Touch Studios & Need productions
    • Movie
      Sidi kaba et la porte du retour
    • Year
      2026
    • Role
      background artist, Set design, layout & Props artist
    • Company
      Special Touch Studios
    • Movie
      Allah n'est pas obligé
    • Year
      2025
    • Role
      background artist
    • Company
      Special Touch Studios
    • TV Production
      Spike Lee : The Last King of Brooklyn
    • Year
      2025
    • Role
      Art director
    • Company
      Special Touch Studios
    • Movie
      Heart of Darkless
    • Year
      2025
    • Role
      Character designer
    • Company
      Special Touch Studios
    • TV Production
      Mia Moké trailer
    • Year
      2023
    • Role
      background artist (Author)
    • Company
      Special Touch Studios
    • TV Production
      Rudy Gobert N 23
    • Year
      2023
    • Role
      Art director
    • Company
      Special Touch Studios
    • TV Production
      La dernière autopsie du Dr Paul
    • Year
      2023
    • Role
      Art director
    • Company
      Special Touch Studios
    • TV Production
      Skip the Use _ The one two _ Clip
    • Year
      2022
    • Role
      Director
    • Company
      Gump
    • Video Game
      Waven
    • Year
      2022
    • Role
      Art director
    • Company
      Ankama
    • TV Production
      Wakfu season 4 trailer
    • Year
      2020
    • Role
      Director, Art director, Storyboard,
    • Company
      Ankama
    • Mobile Game
      Lost Stones: Aya's Prophecy
    • Year
      2019
    • Role
      Concept artist
    • Company
      IGG
    • TV Production
      Abraca
    • Year
      2020
    • Role
      Director and Art Director
    • Company
      Ankama
    • Video Game
      CHaosbane
    • Year
      2019
    • Role
      Director and Art Director
    • Company
      Bigben Interactive
    • TV Production
      Wakfu season 3
    • Year
      2017
    • Role
      Director and Art Director
    • Company
      Ankama
    • Movie
      Mutafukaz
    • Year
      2017
    • Role
      Illustrator
    • Company
      Ankama
    • TV Production
      Eros
    • Year
      2017
    • Role
      Visual development artist
    • Company
      Ankama
    • Movie
      Dofus
    • Year
      2015
    • Role
      Layout Director and Visual Development
    • Company
      Ankama
    • TV Production
      Annecy festival 2015
    • Year
      2015
    • Role
      Director and Art Director
    • Company
      Annecy festival
    • TV Production
      Ident Ludo France 3
    • Year
      2014
    • Role
      Director, Art director
    • Company
      France télévision
    • TV Production
      kerub's bazaar
    • Year
      2013
    • Role
      Art director
    • Company
      Ankama
    • Video Game
      Drakerz Confrontation
    • Year
      2013
    • Role
      Concept artist
    • Company
      PéoLéo Entertainment
    • Video Game
      Boufbowl
    • Year
      2013
    • Role
      Art director
    • Company
      Ankama
    • Video Game
      Wakfu MMORPG
    • Year
      2012
    • Role
      Lead character designer, Lead animator
    • Company
      Ankama
    • TV Production
      Mini Wakfu
    • Year
      2012
    • Role
      Art Director and Author
    • Company
      Ankama
    • TV Production
      Wakfu season 1
    • Year
      2008
    • Role
      Visdev artist, Character designer
    • Company
      Ankama
    • Video Game
      Dofus
    • Year
      2004
    • Role
      Lead Animator, Lead Character designer, Lead Background Artist
    • Company
      Ankama
    • TV Production
      Invisible INK
    • Year
      2007
    • Role
      Author graphic bible
    • Company
      SAMKA productions
    • TV Production
      "Les Mistigris" pilot
    • Year
      2006
    • Role
      Animator
    • Company
      IUP4U

Experience

  • Director, Art director (Author) at Special Touch Studios
    chereng, FR
    February 2023 - Present

    › Sidi Kaba et la porte du retour

    Movie _ Directed by Rony Hotin

    • Visual development

    • Set design

    • Layout artist

    › Confidential project

    Documentary _ Directed by Richard Minier

    • Art direction

    • Visual development (Backgrounds, Character design, Key art, Props)

    › Djibril Cissé

    Documentary _ Directed by Jonathan Bensimhon

    • Art direction

    • Visual development (Backgrounds, Character design, Key art, Props)

    › Solitude

    Documentary _ Directed by Chris Macari

    • Art direction

    • Visual development (Backgrounds, Character design, Key art, Props)

    › RUDY GOBERT N°27 épisode 2/2

    Documentary _ Directed by Jonathan Bensimhon

    • Visual development

    • Art direction

    • Visual development (Backgrounds, Character design, Key art, Props)

    • Graphic designer

    • Key pose corrections

    • Suivi (Storyboard, Animation)

    › Ouzkourini

    Movie _ Directed by Michelle Keserwany

    • Project monitoring

    › Confidential movie project

    • Author (graphic bible)

    • Art direction

    • Visual development

    (Backgrounds, Character design, Key art, Props)

    • Graphic designer (print, logo)

    › MELVILE

    Movie _ Directed by Romain Renard

    • Project monitoring

    • Character design (Main Pack)

    › Allah n'est pas obligé

    Movie _ Directed by Zaven Najjar

    • Backgrounds & Props corrections

    › Faya

    Movie _ Directed by Patrick Chin

    • Matte painting for a 3D film trailer.

    › Sidi Kaba - Guardians of the 1000 Kingdoms Cooperative platform-puzzle video game (prototype)

    • Director / Key creative

    • Art direction

    • Graphic designer (print, web, logo)

    › Spike Lee the last King of Brooklyn

    Documentary _ Directed by Dimitri Danvidé

    • Art direction

    • Visual development (Backgrounds, Character design, Key art, Props)

    • Graphic designer (Com print & web, Logo, crédit)

    • Key pose corrections

    • Suivi (Storyboard, Animation)

    › Sidi Kaba et la porte du retour

    Movie _ Directed by Rony Hotin

    • Visual development

    • Set design

    › HUTSI

    Movie _ Directed by Marta Magnuska

    • Visual development

    (Backgrounds, Character design)

    › MIA MOKÉ trailer

    Animated series _ Directed by Julien and Jérémie Becker

    • Author graphic bible (backgrounds)

    • Visual development (Backgrounds, Props)

    • Art direction

    › Rokia in the Desert

    Movie _ Directed by Enzo d'Alò

    • Visual development

    • Character design (Main pack)

    • Background design

    › DOCTEUR PAUL

    Documentary _ Directed by Guillaume Pittard

    • Art direction

    • Visual development (Backgrounds, Character design, Key art, Props)

    • Graphic designer ( Com print & web, crédit, logo)

    • Storyboard

    › HEART OF DARKNESS

    Movie _ Directed by Rogerio Nunes

    • Art direction

    • Visual development

    • Character design (Main Pack)

    › DIMBIT et ABABA

    Animated series _ Directed by Feben Elias

    • Art direction

    • Visual development (Character design, Background design)

    › MIA MOKÉ

    Animated series _ Directed by Julien and Jérémie Becker

    • Author graphic bible (backgrounds)

    • Visual development (Backgrounds, Props)

    • Art direction

    › RUDY GOBERT N°27 épisode 1/2

    Documentary _ Directed by Jonathan Bensimhon

    • Visual development

    • Art direction

    • Character design

    • Key pose corrections

    • Graphic designer (Com Print & Web, crédit, Logo)

    • Official Poster

  • CEO at NTAMAK
    chereng, FR
    January 2021 - Present

    CEO _ Director _ Art director _ Graphic bible _ Visdev artist _ Mentoring

  • Visual Art teacher at Institut Artline
    chereng, FR
    January 2021 - Present

    › Visual Art Teacher and mentoring

    (Remote mentoring with evening work sessions from 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM.)

  • Visual Art teacher at ECV Lille
    lille, FR
    September 2018 - Present

    › Visual Art Teacher at ECV Creative Schools & Community

    - Supervision of Artistic direction, Staging and Vision of production

    (mentoring every Saturday morning at ECV Lille)

  • Visual Art teacher at Rubika
    Valenciennes, FR
    December 2023 - February 2025

    › RUBIKA & CREATIVE TOUCH STUDIOS

    • Visual Art Teacher and mentoring

  • Art director at Celsius online
    Paris, FR
    February 2024 - March 2024

    _ TILTING POINT, MATTEL & CELSIUS ONLINE

    › BARBIE game project (prototype)

    • Art direction

    • Character design

    • 3d supervision

  • Visual development artist (Author) at 2 Minutes
    Paris, FR
    September 2023 - December 2023

    › Rescue Force Go_ Animated series

    • Author (graphic bible)

    • Visual development (Character design, Backgrounds, props )

  • Visual development artist at Mediawan kids & family
    Paris, FR
    September 2023 - October 2023

    MEDIAWAN & DIPRENTE South Africa

    › Anansi

    • Character design

  • Character designer at Andarta
    Valence, FR
    January 2023 - February 2023

    › BAÏDIR

    • Character designer

  • Visual development artist (Author) at Les Armateurs
    Paris, FR
    September 2022 - May 2023

    › ONIRIA

    • Author (graphic bible)

    • Visual development (Backgrounds, Character design)

  • Art Director at Celsius online & Vertical games
    Paris & Tourcoing
    May 2021 - July 2023

    › Hotel Manigance

    › Confidential AA game project B2B with SHIRO UNLIMITED

    › Synth Hunters B2B with ATLAS V

    › Cut The Rope B2B with THE SANDBOX, ZEPTOLAB

    › Mutant Genesis

    › Renaissance kingdom

    › Missing parts B2B with THE SANDBOX, ZEPTOLAB

    › Mutants: Genetic Gladiators

    › Bloom

    › Les Loups Garous de Thiercelieux App

    › Stables B2B with PMU

    › Departure

  • Director, Art director (Author) at Gump
    Paris, FR
    February 2022 - May 2022

    › SKIP THE USE - The one two - Clip

    • Director

    • Art Director

    • Visual development (Character design, Backgrounds, Props)

    • Key pose corrections

    • Backgrounds, layout & props artist

  • Visual development artist (Author) at Chouette Compagnie
    Paris, FR
    January 2021 - April 2021

    › AURION _ Caloo Hunters

    • Author graphic bible

    • Visual development (Backgrounds, Character design)

  • Director, Art Director, Lead Character designer, Lead Background artist, Lead Animator (Author) at Ankama Animations
    Roubaix
    July 2007 - April 2021

    _ANKAMA GAMES

    › WAVEN

    • Concept art (Background, Key art, Props)

    • Illustration

    • Character design

    • Texturing 3d

    • Level design unity

    _ANKAMA ANIMATIONS

    › WAKFU season 4 KICKSTARTER

    • Story-board

    • Visual development (Character design, Backgrounds, Props)

    • Key pose corrections

    • Backgrounds, layout & props artist

    _ANKAMA ANIMATIONS, DREAMWALL, MADLAB ANIMATIONS

    › ABRACA

    • Co-Direction with Christophe Bulteel

    • Art director

    • Visual development (background, character design, props)

    • Key pose corrections

    _ANKAMA ANIMATIONS

    › WAVEN

    • Visual development (Backgrounds, Props)

    _ANKAMA ANIMATIONS

    › WAKFU saison 03

    • Director

    • Visual development (Backgrounds, Props, Character design)

    • Key pose corrections

    _ANKAMA ANIMATIONS et STUDIO 4°C

    › MUTAFUKAZ MOVIE

    • Illustrator (Creation of the MUTAFUKAZ movie poster)

    _ANKAMA GAMES

    › DOFUS 03

    • Visual development (Backgrounds, props, sprites, texturing)

    _ANKAMA MOVIES

    › DOFUS the movie

    • Layouts Director, Pre-production, Visual development, Work book, co-author graphic bible

    _ANKAMA ANIMATIONS

    › DOFUS the series "Au trésor de Kérubim" & Pilot

    • Art director (backgrounds, Layout, Props)

    • Pre-production Visual development of the series and animated pilot

    (backgrounds, Props)

    • Co-author graphic bible

    › ABRACA serie project

    • Visual developement (backgrounds)

    › MAXI-mini (Transmedia project):

    • Episode1: Two months of work on the experimental transmedia project of the company (including magazine article, interactive comics, video game, short animated film of 8'00"), mainly for backgrounds and props,

    • Episode2: Chara-designer, background and props artist

    • Episode3: Chara-designer, background and props artist

    › DOFUS-mini (Video games and short animated pilot of 2'30"):

    • Pre-production, Visual development and co-art directing with Romain PERGOD of the backgrounds and interfaces,

    • Level-design,

    › WAKFU-mini (SD animated series - 27 episodes of 1'00"):

    • Pre-production of the series at Ankama Tokyo (1 month),

    • Script writing for episode 25,

    • Co-art directing with Romain PERGOD for backgrounds,

    • Illustrations,

    • Co-author graphic bible

    › OGREST oav

    • Concept art

    • Official illustration with Romain PERGOD

    › WAKFU the series

    • SEASON 1: Background artist for episodes 5 ('Les 5 magnifiques'), Character design

    • SEASON 2: Concept art backgrounds for episodes 1 and 2, Character design

    › Freaks' Squeele's (animated pilot):

    • Visual development

    › Annecy festival 2015 Partners' Trailer

    • Co-direction with Fafah Togora and Loic Roger for Annecy festival

    _ Label 619

    › Trailer DOGGYBAGS 2:

    • actor

    _ANKAMA GAMES

    › DOFUS & DOFUS 2.0 (MMORPG):

    • Character design,

    • Animator,

    › WAKFU (MMORPG):

    • Lead character design,

    • Animator,

    • Concept art,

    • Illustrations,

    › WAKFU GARDIEN (MMORPG):

    • Lead character design,

    › WAFKU TCG (Trading Card Game):

    • Illustrations,

    › BOUFBOWL (Game):

    • Co-art directing with Romain PERGOD for backgrounds and interfaces,

    • Concept art backgrounds,

    › DOFUS ARENA (Game):

    • Character Design,

    • Concept art,

  • Visual development artist (Author) at Teamto
    Paris, FR
    February 2021 - March 2021

    • Character & background design for canceled project

  • Concept artist at IMV Studio
    Lyon, FR
    February 2021 - March 2021

    › Seven Cities

    • Character design, illustration

  • Concept artist at IGG
    Tokyo
    January 2019 - February 2019

    ›Lost Stones: Aya's Prophecy - Puzzle RPG_IGG Mobile game

    • Senior Concept artist, Senior Background artist

  • Director, Art director (Author) at Bigben Interactive
    Lille, FR
    December 2018 - March 2018

    › CHAOSBANE opening game video

    • Co-Direction with Christophe Bulteel

    • Art director, Background artist, Props artist

  • Visual Art teacher, Exhibitor at CCISM de la Polynésie française
    tahiti, PF
    March 2017 - March 2017

    • Visual art teacher (Video Game / Cartoon) and Ankama exhibitor at the Digital Festival 2017 in Tahiti.

  • Visual Art teacher at Institut francais d'Algérie
    Alger, DZ
    November 2016 - November 2016

    • Visual art teacher (Video Game / Cartoon) and Ankama exhibitor.

  • Director, Art director (Author) at France 3
    Paris
    May 2014 - May 2014

    › Ludo TV

    • Co-direction with David Cazeaux of the LUDO TV Ident 'Invader'' for FRANCE 3 (Studio Ludo)

    • Art director

    • Character & Background design

  • Concept artist at Ubisoft Owlient
    Paris, FR
    May 2012 - May 2012

    › Dragow

  • Concept artist at Peo Leo
    Tourcoing
    September 2010 - November 2010

    › Drakers TCG

    • Concept artist, Character design for Drakers TCG

  • Toys designer at Electromantik Innovative
    paris, FR
    January 2009 - May 2009

    • Toys design,

    • Illustrator,

  • Concept artist at tokkun studio
    Annecy, FR
    September 2008 - November 2008

    • Concept art for unannounced Nintendo DS game,

    • Logotype for unannounced Nintendo DS game,

  • Character designer (Author) at Samka Productions
    Paris
    January 2007 - July 2007

    › "Invisible network of kids" (I.N.K)

    • Character design author

  • Concept artist at Black Sheep Studio
    Paris
    January 2007 - May 2007

    › Super Megaloman

    • Character design, Storyboard and Concept art for AA Wii game

  • Art director, Animator, Graphiste Print & Web at Doyoe
    Lille, FR
    May 2004 - May 2014

    › Naruto mini free to play game indie game

  • Director, Graphiste Print & web at Studio Poulain
    Lille
    May 2003 - May 2007

    Clients:

    › Arc-en-ciel Liévin

    › Virax

    › Le CORIF

    › CBNB _ (Conservatoire Botanique National de Bailleul)

    › Le CERDD _ (Centre Ressource du Développement Durable)

    › Réso Asso Métro _ Les fenêtres qui parlent

    › Lasécu _ Galerie d'art

    › L'atelier de la sorcière verte

    › Studio Erison

    › Le kiosque à pizzas

    › IAE Lille

    › Transvilles Valenciennes

    › Caillé Associés _ Alcalie

    › Le CUEPP _ Lille

    • Logotype, Books, Packaging,

    • HTML & Flash site, Action script, Flash animation ,

    • Director for corporate video

  • Concept art (theater) at Theatre la Licorne
    Lille
    April 2006 - May 2006

    › Bestiaire africain

    • Concept art for "Bestiaire Africain" and "Spartacus" (theater)

  • Animator at IP4U
    Valenciennes
    January 2006 - March 2006

    › Les Mistigris

    • Animator for the pilot (Broadcast on TF1 in France),

    • Concept art & Illustration for mobile games,

  • Storyboard Artist at Hydravision Entertainment
    Tourcoing
    July 2001 - August 2001

    › Obscure

    • Story-board for unannounced computer game