Director Jean-François Pouliot and producer Marc Bertrand explain the project and the inspiration for the stereoscopic film Facing Champlain: a Work in 3 Dimensions.
Director Jean-François Pouliot and producer Marc Bertrand explain the project and the inspiration for the stereoscopic film Facing Champlain: a Work in 3 Dimensions.
Producer Marc Bertrand and animator Munro Ferguson tell us about the beginning of the project, explaining the choice to associate live-action shooting and 3D animation for the film Facing Champlain.
Director Jean-François Pouliot, actress Pascale Montpetit and animator Theodore Ushev talk about the artist and the painting in the film Facing Champlain.
Camera designers Marty Mueller and Barbra Pleason-Mueller, stereographer Sean MacLeod Philips, director Jean-François Pouliot and executive producer David Verrall talk about the equipment used to shoot live-action in stereoscopy and the impact that using this technique had on the film Facing Champlain.
Animation director Munro Ferguson and animator Dale Hayward explain how the 3D animation software SANDEE and other 3D animation techniques were used for the film Facing Champlain.
Animation director Munro Ferguson explains some ideas behind the different animation styles used in Facing Champlain. The animators replicate many different styles of paintings, from Champlain's era to the modern day.
Normand Sarrazin designed the set for the live-action element of Facing Champlain. Working with animators and developing a set for 3D was a new challenge for his team.
Digital effects expert on the stereoscopic film Facing Champlain, Pierre Plouffe explains the process of integrating the animation and live action effects together in 3D through SANDDE? technology.
Composer and sound designer Normand Roger needed to create a soundtrack for a film made in multi-dimensions. He combined contemporary and classical music to reflect the different time periods of the film.
In this chapter of the making-of, we witness the countdown to the Québec City premiere. The screening of this stereoscopic film involved a complicated and laborious process to get things right.
The 3D stereoscopic film Facing Champlain has its premiere in Québec City. In this chapter, the talented filmmakers and dedicated crew celebrate their hard work together. The film was put together in just a matter of months.
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A historical and artistic 3-D experience directed by Jean-François Pouliot. A collaboration with Musée de la civilisation, screened as part of the permanent exhibition on Samuel de Champlain at the Centre d'interprétation on Place-Royale in Quebec City. National Film Board of Canada © 2008 All rights reserved.