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15 Juil

Publié à 08:57h in par

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Teaser [vc_video link="https://vimeo.com/364735170"] Images from MécaLéo [vc_gallery interval="3" images="4012,4011,4010,4009,4008" img_size="full"] ©Université de Tours/CNRS   Mecaleo©Intelligence des Patrimoines [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text]An immersive and interactive discovery of Leonardo da Vinci's machines This is a serious virtual reality video game that plunges you into the Renaissance period to discover how the famous machines designed by Léonard de Vinci worked. It’s a Renaissance Transmédia Lab project jointly developed by the Centre d’études supérieur de la Renaissance (CESR) and the Intelligence des Patrimoines research programme. We produced the final version of the game using a pre-existing development. We also completed the portrayal of all the 3D content (décor, machines, etc.) and created all the project’s game play features before adding a web version of the game.   Credits: Mediation support developed with the contribution of Les Fées Spéciales, as part of the ARD Intelligence des Patrimoines program funded by the Center-Val de Loire region. ARD Intelligence des Patrimoines Scientific supervisor: Pascal BRIOIST (Professeur des universités) Production manager: Benoist Pierre Coordinator: Morgane Chaumier Project manager: Emmanuel Barreau Scientific mediation officer: Katel Lochet IT engineers: Johann Forte, Damien Vurpillot Voice-over and voice recording: Jean-Philippe Letourneur Communications officer: Marine Bruneau Les Fées Spéciales Project manager: Duy Kevin Nguyen Co-managers: Flavio Perrez, Sophie Marron et Eric Serre Production manager: Natalène Darfeuille Developer, architecture, Game Play: Benoît Fouletier Developer, Game Design,...

02 Mai

Publié à 11:04h in par

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Research Images [/vc_column_text][vc_gallery interval="3" images="2813,2818,2809,2810,2808,2806,2807,2805,2803,2804"] Images from the pilot [vc_gallery interval="3" images="3757,3761,3759,3758,3755,3754,3753,3750,3752"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"] [vc_column_text] [vc_empty_space] On going In a period of cultural, economic and political change, this web-series, designed and written by the Toulouse Natural History Museum, offers a human, scientific and contemporary insight into Amerindians in Amazonia. OurLes Fées studio played a part in this venture by producing a pilot film called Iny Karajà, the people of the great river. To complete the story and add a graphical dimension to the videos made by men and women from different Amazonian communities, the museum, in Toulouse, and Les Fées Spéciales added some animation. Sketches are a universal concept. They are simple, yet meaningful and poetic wherever you are in the world. They help discover myths and social or environmental issues without falling prey to hyperrealism that would be insincere or inappropriate. The combination of techniques and media strikes a chord with the diversity of modern worlds. This also makes the dialogue more conducive to learn about other people. Like a travel journal, it captures situations as they really are. Animated sketches retain their meaning and appeal to the audience’s imagination. The colours used have an ambassadorial role and the palette has...

20 Avr

Publié à 08:13h in par

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text] Film [/vc_column_text][vc_video link="https://vimeo.com/323861228/d2bcf2fe4c"][vc_column_text] Images from the film [/vc_column_text][vc_gallery interval="3" images="2826,2827,2829,2821,2822,2823,2820,2828"][vc_column_text] Research Images [/vc_column_text][vc_gallery interval="3" images="2824,2825"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] THE SECRET OF THE STEPPE Protecting the Crau Plain Grasshopper also means protecting the local area and vice-versa. The grasshopper is at serious risk of extinction, bringing the whole habitat under threat. Laurent Tatin has a PhD in Ecology and coordinates the grasshopper conservation strategy and is the lynchpin of this cross-disciplinary project combining science, art and conservation. Together with filmmaker, Eric Serre, writer and illustrator, Léa Cluzel, and script-writer, Aurélie Buron, the team jointly created a new research and communication tool. Les Fées Spéciales and biologists from the Coussouls de Crau National Nature Reserve then combined their arts and knowledge to provide a new insight into modern-day environmental issues. As well as a communication and interpretation tool, animated films avoid harming natural environments compared to conventional documentaries where teams and all their equipment are sent out to make film on-site. Animation, by contrast, is an artistic, economic and ecological approach. The star of the film is the grasshopper, or more specifically, Prionotropis rhodanica. Not as high-profile as a tiger or elephant, the cricket nevertheless plays the part of an ambassador for animals threatened with extinction, which...

07 Juil

Publié à 17:39h in par

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Image from multimedia  Research Images [vc_gallery interval="3" images="3778,3777,3775,3774,3773"] [/vc_column_text] Musée de Lodève©Les Fées Spéciales   [/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text][vc_empty_space] Among the 24 digital systems produced for Lodève Museum is an interactive installation called “Earth in all its shapes and forms”, an audiovisual experience that is part of the “Traces of Life” exhibition. Visitors use a 52-inch touchscreen to view the evolution of the Earth, from all angles. A cursor indicating the theoretical position of Lodève means that visitors can follow it as they move through the animation and experience the huge geological changes from 500 million years ago to the present day. Using edited maps from various periods of geological time, together with input from the museum’s scientific committee, our team of developers devised a programme to view changes on Earth and plate tectonics in a real-time animated application. Other multimedia produced for the Museum Credits Production: Musée de Lodève, Les Fées Spéciales Main contractor: The architect Projectiles, the museographer of Projectiles and the designers of Polygraphik. Contracting authority/Projetc owner: Communauté de Communes du Lodévois Larzac. Museum direction: Ivonne Papin Drastik Scientific officer: Stephane Fouché  Project management: AG Studio (Yasmina Barbé Boudhar, Florent Sauzedde) Hardware: Vidélio Les Fées Spéciales Project manager: Flavio Perez Artistic director: Marie Saby Cartography: Damien Picard Interactivity: Duy Kevin Nguyen...

07 Juil

Publié à 17:36h in par

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Images of the installations in the Museum [/vc_column_text][vc_gallery interval="3" images="3684,3685,3687,3688,3689"][vc_column_text] Research images [vc_gallery interval="3" images="3788,3686,3789,3790"] Musée de Lodève©Les Fées Spéciales [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] [vc_empty_space] In addition to producing animated films and multimedia, we also helped design and recreate relief map models. To complete this job, we worked with Sequoia, a carpentry company specialising in museum layouts, joinery and decoration. Our task was to design and build 3D models for the following objects: 20 fossilised Caseidae bones (from the skeleton of an animal to be exhibited on a metal frame, the bones being scanned in high definition 3D to create an exact copy (accurate to 10µm) a slab in relief displaying the path of fossilised footprints made from casts of the Cogema slabs, covering an area of 32m²; a slab in relief featuring Neolithic human footprints, made from casts, illustrating the path taken into the Aldène Cave (Aude); 4 projected relief maps (taken from NASA, IGN, OSM open data sources); a cross-section of the Causses limestone plateaus, containing underground cave reservoirs; and finally, an educational booklet on footprints and casts of footprints. our team used various 3D scanning models to recreate models of fossil remains as accurately as possible. This work to make...

07 Juil

Publié à 17:02h in par

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text][vc_empty_space] Le Grand Faune welcomes visitors Images from films [vc_gallery interval="3" images="3730,3731,3732"] Musée de Lodève©Les Fées Spéciales   [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] [vc_empty_space] Lodève Museum has a rich and varied collection of fine art split into 3 exhibitions, Man’s Footprints, Traces of Life and Sculpting Lives. The latter is the museum’s most overtly contemporary exhibition, comprising works from the studio of sculptor, Paul Dardé, which the museum conserves. We created two approaches for this exhibition, “Dardé, the magician” and “The life and work of Dardé”. For “Dardé, the magician”, we re-edited and added a subtle motion design application to an extract from the film, The Magician (Rex Ingram, 1926) featuring the sculpture, “Le Grand Faune” (currently on display in the museum atrium) and Paul Dardé. The second project, “The life and work of Dardé”, is a dynamic slideshow retracing the sculptor’s life. The 8-minute video combines archive images (photos, press articles and sketches, etc.) with motion graphic design to showcase the life this local artist. Other multimedia produced for the Museum Credits Production: Musée de Lodève & Les Fées Spéciales Main Contractor: The architect Projectiles, the museographer of Projectiles and the designers of Polygraphik. Contracting authority/Projetc owner: Communauté de Communes du Lodévois Larzac. Museum...

07 Juil

Publié à 16:37h in par

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_column_text][vc_empty_space] Images from the multimedia [vc_gallery interval="3" images="3738,3737,3739,3800,3801,3802,3803,3804"] Research images [vc_gallery interval="3" images="3791,3792,3793,3794,3795,3796,3797,3798,3799"]   Musée de Lodève©Les Fées Spéciales [/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] [vc_empty_space] Geosciences account for a large part of the collection at Lodève Museum. The various multimedia feature maps projected on relief models use dynamic projected mapping or 3D pre-dinosaur reconstitutions (Eryops and Dimetrodon). We then designed animated geological diagrams to explain changes to the Lodève area through time. The aim of these installations is to see terrestrial processes that go far beyond timescales familiar to the average visitor. Millions of years of tectonic activity and erosion have left traces and footprints that we had to encapsulate in a matter of minutes. Using simple, animated diagrams helps people grasp basic concepts during their visit. The films are silent and the projected images are accompanied by carefully written texts with the subsequent constraints of using two languages (French and English). Other multimedia produced for the Museum Credits Production: Musée de Lodève et Les Fées Spéciales Main contractor: L’architecte de l’agence d’architecture Projectiles, le muséographe de l’agence d’architecture Projectiles et les graphistes de l’atelier Polygraphik. Contracting authority/Projetc owner: Communauté de Communes du Lodévois Larzac. Museum direction: Ivonne Papin Drastik Scientific officer: Stéphane Fouché Project management: AG Studio (Yasmina Barbé Boudhar,...

07 Juil

Publié à 16:33h in par

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Movies in the scenography  [/vc_column_text] [vc_column_text] Images extraites des films  [/vc_column_text][vc_gallery interval="3" images="3698,3699,3700,3701,3702,3703,3704,3705,3706,3707,3708,3709,3711,3734"] Images de recherches [vc_gallery interval="3" images="3712,3713,3714,3715,3716"] Musée de Lodève©Les Fées Spéciales   [/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] [vc_empty_space] The films that we have created for the “Man’s Footprints” exhibition gives visitors a sneak peek into the secrets of Herault's prehistoric communities. This series of 9 films, takes visitors back through time, 70,000 years ago. As visitors make their way through the exhibition spaces, they discover how our ancestors from the Lodéve-Larzac area lived and worked, focusing on funeral rites, homes, objects and hunting, etc. The technique used is digital puppetry animation, stemming from 20th century paper cut-out puppets that are ideally suited to the rigours of scientific illustration such as archaeology. This method leaves plenty of scope for how the images are presented and offers modest production costs compared to the large amount of characters and films. Other multimedia produced for the Museum Credits Production: Musée de Lodève et Les Fées Spéciales Main contractor: L’architecte de l’agence d’architecture Projectiles, le muséographe de l’agence d’architecture Projectiles et les graphistes de l’atelier Polygraphik. Contracting authority/project owner: Communauté de Communes du Lodévois Larzac. Museum direction: Ivonne Papin Drastik Scientific officier: Noisette Bec Project management: AG Studio (Yasmina Barbé Boudhar, Florent Sauzedde) Hardware: Vidélio Les Fées...

07 Juil

Publié à 16:27h in par

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Images extraites des films  [vc_gallery interval="3" images="3675,3674,3673,3672,3671,3741,3742,3743"] Images de recherches  [vc_gallery interval="3" images="3766,3762,3763,3765,3764"] Musée de Lodève©Les Fées Spéciales   [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] [vc_empty_space] Motion design is used in two installations for “Traces of life”. These installations depict complex scientific messages, such as interpreting landscapes in geological terms or the origin of life on Earth. The first film, Evolution and biological crises, explains, in 3 minutes, the evolution of species and related links through the history of life on Earth. The image of the Phylogenetic Tree, illustrating more than 4 billion years of evolution, includes the latest scientific research and required considerable effort to distil down scientific and graphical information. The second installation, With or without witnesses, is a 6-minute film that helps us understand the importance of specific geological indicators, as well as the work of geologists and palaeontologists who help us recreate history. The technical animation method of motion graphic design is based on its dynamic and symbolic narration capability. It focuses on the meaning behind the information rather than an impressive, yet anecdotal display of movement. Feelings are also a strong component, conveyed with colours and humour to complement the presentation of the scientific method. Other multimedia produced for the...

07 Juil

Publié à 16:19h in par

[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Research images [vc_gallery interval="3" images="3745,3746,3744,3807,3808,3809,3810"] Images from the multimedia [vc_gallery interval="3" images="3814,3815,3816,3817"] Musée de Lodève©Les Fées Spéciales [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/3"][vc_column_text] [vc_empty_space] Our team was part of the work to refurbish Lodève Museum in 2017 and 2018. Further to a year-long project, we produced no less than an hour of animated content. The time room is a spectacular installation that bookends the geological journey through the museum’s permanent collection. The 7-minute film, projected onto a 12 m semi-circular screen, lets visitors view 15 key periods in the Lodève area that together form a 540 million-year journey. There are 12 windows below the screen, providing visitors with additional background information. They contain fossils, witnesses of times past, that each light up when the corresponding period is displayed on the big screen. This programme required a great deal of coordination between the production studio, museum teams, the project management consultants, scientific committees (for the content to be displayed), scenographers and the project hardware partners (modulo-pi servers, projectors). A visual process had to be found to help the audience grasp the scales of geological time. Other multimedia produced for the Museum Credits Production: Musée de Lodève et Les Fées Spéciales Main constructor: The architect Projectiles, the museographer of Projectiles...