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)

from the Flash era: We Are Data (2013, last Flash Project), 2011, Bulgari B-zero (2010), Cut it out for change (2010) + countless smaller projects, workshops, talks ...
I kept a copy of my Flash blog HIDIHO!. I also saved most of the code and resources, for the curious
there's a page where I dumped pointless ideas, mostly broken but funny stuff: One Trick Ponies