![]() ![]() animation – are now producing their most beautiful fruits. ![]() More seriously, our past in animated cinema, the know-how developed at the NFB and in certain university institutions – let us just think of the Department of Fine Arts at Concordia University, and its cinema and cinema sections. As for what makes good tech artists… Roddy McManus, producer at Tube Studio, once offered the following explanation: it’s so cold that people have to stay indoors all winter so there’s nothing to do but get good! ![]() One thing leads to another, there is a certain relationship between the fact that Montreal is the city where technology is born and the one which welcomes so many excellent artist-technicians. Besides, is it a coincidence that this company includes another Rodriguez film, The Teachers ? Hybride Technologies, one of our featured companies, participated in the production of the film’s special effects. As proof, the recent Espies en herbe, by Robert Rodriguez, which is a great success at the box office, here and elsewhere. Discreet Logic, Tube Studio and Big Bang Animation, to name just a few, have no trouble demonstrating their abilities to satisfy demands from here and abroad. Think if Hollywood knows which way the wind is blowing now!īut Montreal still stands out because there are companies where talented artists and experienced technicians work. For example, Kaydara’s Filmbox is at the origin of the fabulous special effects that amazed all the spectators of The Matrix. The companies that create the technology (80% of animation and special effects software is born in our beautiful metropolis). If Montreal is today one of the great capitals of special effects, it is largely because we find there Softimage’s software will tour the world, and all visual arts and communications will benefit from this revolutionary technology. A new reality has just been born, which we call virtual, following the term invented in 1995 by the computer scientist, Jaron Lanier. The year 1994 was that of Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, which introduced Softimage to the whole world by resurrecting dinosaurs in three dimensions and which taught us that computers are not only used to store administrative data. Īlthough special effects seem to have always been part of our cinematographic horizons, it was only yesterday that the world truly discovered their merits, with as much admiration as amazement. QED! Montreal is today recognized as one of the cities where you can find everything, where it is possible to create the special effects necessary for the production of Supposed Heroes ( Mystery Men ), Underground Army and other Matrix. A good technician is not necessarily an inspired artist, it is important to provide creative people with the means to bring the twists and turns of their imagination to life. When Daniel Langlois founded Softimage in 1986, he had in mind to provide artists with the tools that would allow them to realize their wildest dreams. ![]()
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