Philippe Gérard

Movie direction - Scenography

Merging Art and Engineering

Phone: +33 (0)6 61 36 49 27

e-mail: Philippe Gérard

Co-founder of the 3D production company "3Dlized"

Partner of "Avalone" for the sale and rental of Interactive Bars

Check out contents on YouTube

 

3D movie clip: "Fitou"

Currently: 3D Movie "Fitou" shown in the CGR 3D Movie Theatres network

A special thanks to the actors (Lys, Arnaud and Ernaut) for the voices and to Antoine for the animation.... 700000 visitors already, since October 2007


Cannes Film Festival 2008: "Glam's": 3D clip presented at the film market

A special thanks to Kelly, Marie, Sandrine, Joris and Renaud...

(this 3D image is presented in Red-Cyan for those who have 3D glasses, the real projection is in HD full colour)

 

Design of the stereoscopy of a 6-minute movie projected on a giant silverscreen in Dubaï.

 


HEAVENT 2005:

At this fair, one could discover services available for preparing events. We presented our interactive glove and two ultra-high resolution movies. We made and projected these movies in the 4K resolution (4000x2000 pixels). to get the french press release .watch this movie in low res (wmv), download 4K images from this movie: (image1, image2, image3).

4K movie

Presentation of a 4K movie using a 8millions pixels source, we also presented a synthetic movie showing an animated fractal designed by Cetoine.


 

SATIS 2005:

For the second edition of the HD night, we presented ultra-high resolution videos (5500x1080 pixels) displayed on a 25m wide screen. We also projected images onto the surface of a sphere in order to mix videos and real character (augmented reality principle). check out the 25 meters wide screen.

Augmented Reality


 

IBC 2005, 2006 and 2007 conferences

Our 3DHD movies are regularly presented at the conference IBC, in the RAI auditorium and on the booth of Doremi.


 

Interactivity: Interactive glove

Interactive glove for Intel, Grand Palais, Paris 2006

On the stage, the dancer was wearing an interactive glove and could controled all the contents. She was able to paint with her finger, to choose among a database of movies and to launch video sequences with her fingers (check out the movie to see the making of ).

 

Virtual VeeJeying, Siggraph 2005

At Laval Virtual 2005, The Virtual VeeJeying animation was selected to participate at Siggraph 2005, in the Emerging Technologies area.

In this virtual interface, participants use lighted gloves to mix images and videos

to learn more about this presentation.

The lighted glove was part of the scenography for the 100th anniversary of the insurance company: "La mondiale", Tunisia 2005.


 

Dassault Aviation, Feb 2005

Conception & Direction of the Reveal for the Falcon 7x of Dassault Aviation.

3DHD Movie and Augmented reality used on a plane in order to make it fly virtually ... more

Look also at this article in the french Magazine :"Sonovision"

 


 

Laval Virtual 2005

Scenography for the award ceremony ot the International Conference of Virtual Reality using our interactive glove and lighted dress. The lighted glove was used to select winners on a half-transparent screen and send their movies to a bigger screen on which they were played automatically.

laval virtual ceremony

 

Video presenting an interaction between lighted gloves and contents from one screen to another (1,6Mb)


 

FRAGS at the Airshow of "Le Bourget"

Design of a movie based on frags (reconstruction of an image using thousands of videos). This movie was presented on the booth of the direction of the county of Paris at the Air show of "Le Bourget". ... to see more

Jean-Paul Huchon at Le Bourget

M. Jean-Paul Huchon, president of ARD -Ile de France (Paris region direction) is giving a talk on his booth.


 

A short biography:

Philippe Gérard is an event designer and Engineer. As well as beeing a movie director, he obtained an engineering degree, a PhD in computer Science and a MBA. Event designer for shows such as the revealing of the Falcon 7X of Dassault Aviation, he is also in charge of a research project concerning motion capture techniques, at INRIA. the latter is used to enhance the content of TV images. Philippe carried out several marketing projects for both private and public institutions. He has written and published nearly 400 articles for professional broadcast magazines such as "Sonovision" and "Digital film". Some of his paper has been published in scientific journals e.g: IEEE Multimedia and Pattern Recognition Letters. Recently, he took part in writing a book for NATO.

Contact: Philippe Gérard

+33 (0)6 61 36 49 27

To see our Lighted Dresses made of Optic fibers (Miss France on stage): www.mp-g.com