Nicolas Barradeau

former Fine-Arts student now working as a freelance creative coder. I'm specialized in online 2D/3D real-time graphics, animations and dataviz. I've used Machine Learning more and more for the past 2 years.

if you have a project or want more details about something: barradeau@gmail.com

I have a blog called YOUPI!, it was on hold because organising GROW Paris took all the room but I should blog again soon.
I started a website to "teach" the basics of generative art, it is called YOUPI.IO (I'm not good at names)

social

twitter  github  codepen 

behance  vimeo  flickr

relevant work and such

2021

• Marseille for La Phase 5 and its companion article to explain how it's done
• Emotions map features a fun use of a force directed graph for Google Arts & Culture
• worked on 2 unreleased dataviz projects for Google Arts & Culture, also started prototyping mini-games (games are very challenging!)

2020

• Diwali @ home (AR) I gave a hand on the AR side of the project, I learnt that AR is not ripe
• spoke at the Frontside Conference about creative coding slide deck or the video (in french)
• Hopper the Explorer to visit and photobomb famous landmarks with a rockhopper for Google Arts & Culture
• created a printable activity book for Google Arts & Culture
• did the mesh rendering and the 3D workflow for un printemps suspendu with Upian (client l'équipe)

2019

• worked on a (unreleased) year-long project for Google Arts & Culture, I learnt a lot about ML
• organized the the 3rd edition of GROW Paris, smaller (only took 6 weeks), focused, awesome
• gave a lecture at micromesomacro, here's the slide deck

2018

• worked on the UI of the airshaper model viewer
• did a 360°, kinect driven, 2D fluid simulation in Unity for Hands Agency (client Lancôme)
• did an AR app in Unity for Publicis Sapient (client La Poste)
• worked on didactic animations for Google, explaining how the Universal Search and Knowledge Graph work (unreleased)
• became a father
• organized the 2nd edition of GROW Paris (this edition took ~6 months...) harder, better, stronger!

2017

• started an event about creative coding called GROW Paris (took ~3 months) I did some funny generative badges
• gave a workshop at ECAL and wrote 2 articles about creative coding: PCG, data & space and process & systems
• technical consulting on the OUI GO pinball for Merci Michel: functional prototpye, set up the 3D workflow (client SNCF)
• worked for a year with a "friend" on non existing projects, some fun R&D, I learnt a lot about friendship

2016

• t-SNE Map Experiment for Google Arts and Culture
• the great animal orchestra (blog)
• a short journey (blog)
• a conference on creative cartography

2014 / 2015

• worked for a year on the Collapse prototype for BETC (client Ubisoft) I learnt a lot about cartography
• 2014 My Deejo (first WebGL project)