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Produced by :
Nú Films
Nú Films
Director :
Jean-François Pillon
Jean-François Pillon
Director of photography :
Phillipe Roy
Phillipe Roy
Senior MoCo operator :
Marc Côté
Marc Côté
Compositing artists :
Nicolas Cadorette, Louis Melançon, Jean-Simon Roy
Nicolas Cadorette, Louis Melançon, Jean-Simon Roy
3D artist :
Sylvain Théroux
Sylvain Théroux
Shooting locations :
Studio St-Ambroise (Montreal)
Studio St-Ambroise (Montreal)
Director of visual effects :
Marc Côté
Marc Côté
Related links :
Amélie Veille - Buzzclip
When director Jean-François Pilon and his Nùfilms team approached Camera-e-motion to shoot an effects-filled videoclip on PalDV, nobody hesitated; every ambitious challenge being a treat for this team on the verge of masochism!
For this particular clip, the idea was to adapt Amélie Veille's « Bulles de lumière » song, which speaks of her encounter with an eccentric woman who can read into her aura. In the song, this meeting is significant as a symbol of Amélie's apeasement and reconciliation with the world around her.
The concept starts with Amélie waking up in a room in which every piece of furniture eventually becomes a bubble and the walls slowly detach and disappear in the distance. When her room has completely disappeared, Amélie is seen standing above a huge cityscape, smoothly picking her guitar. The camera then dives into the city, towards a street corner on which the eccentric woman is standing, looking up at Amélie, a smile on her face. We then come back to Amélie as her room is slowly reconstructing, the bubbles becoming pieces of furniture again, the walls closing in as she returns to the bed, lying in the same position as the beginning.
To bring this project to life, Camera e-Motion's team of 3d artists and compositors determined that Amélie should be shot in studio, on a green screen, while her surroundings would be built using a mixture of CGI and live props (i.e: the bed, the furniture and some on set accessories.). A process which could have been extremely complex had it not been for Camera e-Motion's motion control rig, the MILO.(for more info, see www.camera-e-motion.com).
Using the MILO, the production team first shot the layer in which Amélie would wake up, sing and move around with her guitar. In order for this layer to give a more realistic feel, it was determined that the bed and some set elements had to be physically on set; so that Amélie's interaction with her environment would seem credible.
The post production team then had to recreate the camera movement in a 3D environment, in order to match the MILO's initial movement. The MILO being a computer-controlled motion control rig, this step was made fairly easy; the movement's coordinates simply had to be imported into the appropriate software.
Some difficulties arose when a photo-realistic virtual bedroom had to be rendered in a convincing way. The wall panels, each tile on the floor and Amélie's shadows had to be controlled independently; the whole room had to be assembled and dissassembled like a hyper-realistic construction set. In order for this effect to work, special care was put into texture detail and each element's independence.
Once the room was completed, tha artists were free to let their imagination roam as they had to conceive the bubbles in the title. Eachy piece of furniture transforming into a bubble, it was time to merge material and fantasy. As the song says, these bubbles are made « of light » and this idea served as principal guideline in the conception of eight small bubbles, orange and very cute, whirling around Amélie, shining their joyful light on the whole videoclip.
Most of the work being finished, it was still necessary to generate an interesting background; this city over which Amélie is standing. With more than 500 photographs taken from a host of vantage points, the compositing team built an immense « bowl » which could be shot from the angles needed to match the MILO's movement and give a magical feeling to this particular moment.
Once all details were conformed, the different layers were assembled, rotoscoped and color-corrected down to every pixel, integrating the whole in a warm look, bathed in wonderful lighting, mirroring the peacefulness of Amélie's song.
To generate this calm ambience, a total of 600 hours of sweat, tears and unlimited creativity was put into this project by a team completely devoted to the quick resolution of complex problems!
For this particular clip, the idea was to adapt Amélie Veille's « Bulles de lumière » song, which speaks of her encounter with an eccentric woman who can read into her aura. In the song, this meeting is significant as a symbol of Amélie's apeasement and reconciliation with the world around her.
The concept starts with Amélie waking up in a room in which every piece of furniture eventually becomes a bubble and the walls slowly detach and disappear in the distance. When her room has completely disappeared, Amélie is seen standing above a huge cityscape, smoothly picking her guitar. The camera then dives into the city, towards a street corner on which the eccentric woman is standing, looking up at Amélie, a smile on her face. We then come back to Amélie as her room is slowly reconstructing, the bubbles becoming pieces of furniture again, the walls closing in as she returns to the bed, lying in the same position as the beginning.
To bring this project to life, Camera e-Motion's team of 3d artists and compositors determined that Amélie should be shot in studio, on a green screen, while her surroundings would be built using a mixture of CGI and live props (i.e: the bed, the furniture and some on set accessories.). A process which could have been extremely complex had it not been for Camera e-Motion's motion control rig, the MILO.(for more info, see www.camera-e-motion.com).
Using the MILO, the production team first shot the layer in which Amélie would wake up, sing and move around with her guitar. In order for this layer to give a more realistic feel, it was determined that the bed and some set elements had to be physically on set; so that Amélie's interaction with her environment would seem credible.
The post production team then had to recreate the camera movement in a 3D environment, in order to match the MILO's initial movement. The MILO being a computer-controlled motion control rig, this step was made fairly easy; the movement's coordinates simply had to be imported into the appropriate software.
Some difficulties arose when a photo-realistic virtual bedroom had to be rendered in a convincing way. The wall panels, each tile on the floor and Amélie's shadows had to be controlled independently; the whole room had to be assembled and dissassembled like a hyper-realistic construction set. In order for this effect to work, special care was put into texture detail and each element's independence.
Once the room was completed, tha artists were free to let their imagination roam as they had to conceive the bubbles in the title. Eachy piece of furniture transforming into a bubble, it was time to merge material and fantasy. As the song says, these bubbles are made « of light » and this idea served as principal guideline in the conception of eight small bubbles, orange and very cute, whirling around Amélie, shining their joyful light on the whole videoclip.
Most of the work being finished, it was still necessary to generate an interesting background; this city over which Amélie is standing. With more than 500 photographs taken from a host of vantage points, the compositing team built an immense « bowl » which could be shot from the angles needed to match the MILO's movement and give a magical feeling to this particular moment.
Once all details were conformed, the different layers were assembled, rotoscoped and color-corrected down to every pixel, integrating the whole in a warm look, bathed in wonderful lighting, mirroring the peacefulness of Amélie's song.
To generate this calm ambience, a total of 600 hours of sweat, tears and unlimited creativity was put into this project by a team completely devoted to the quick resolution of complex problems!