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Trainers and speakers at S-3D CAMPUS are internationally renowned experts :
TRAINERS DIRECTORY
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 Patrice Abaul
Redkennprods CEO, founder of Redkennprods, he worked for 5 years as audiovisual manager for the Football Club RC Lens.
This experience allowed him to develop the necessary skills to supervise the production of audivisual projects that are meant to be screened in professional broadcast formats.
At first meant to make demonstrations and technical training on the equipment and 3D technologies by SONY, Redkennprods’ activities have rapidly changed since September 2010 towards 3D production.
Redkennprods is now in charge of the running of a stock of audiovisual equipment that belongs to its major client : SONY Europe. That equipment is for 3D video production.
Redkennprods has taken part in more than 10 3D shootings since September 2010 in the fields of live events, cinema, advertisement and documentaries.
Patrice ABAUL is the director of Redkennprods and a SONY ICE (Independent certified Expert).
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.jpg) Thierry Barbier
AmaK Studio CEO. With a background in engineering at France’s École Polytechnique and École des Télécommunications, Thierry Barbier started his career in theater before turning to the film industry, where he worked as a production manager.
1986 – 1988: Production manager for Sogitec, a French pioneering company in the field of CGI.
1989 – 1997: Production manager for Ex Machina, working on a number of clips for advertising and exhibitions, as well as large-format films (3D, IMAX, rides) for theme parks.
1998 – 1999: In charge of the digital effects department at Ex Machina
2000 – present: associate founder of AmaK, executive producer specializing in special formats including 3D.
AmaK is a design and production studio dedicated to enhancing artistic and cultural contents on digital supports. AmaK offers counseling and design, and produces films as well as interactive and immersive experiences (real-time, stereoscopic 3D, 4D, multi-screen, rides…)
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 Danys Bruyere
VP - Operations and Technologies – TSF Group VP- Operations and Technologies – TSF Group
Formed in arts and communications at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada), Danys Bruyère began his technical career in many feature films and commercials. Enthusiast by cameras, post production and technology in all its forms, he joined the manufacturer Aaton in Canada, then in USA - before joining the management team in Grenoble.
In the 2000, Danys joins the TSF group as Operations manager. Beginning Operations and Technologies VP, he pursued his passion for complex systems of shots and started to develop first links between capture and post-production for cinema. At early 2002, TSF have been involved in the development of the first French feature film shooted in uncompressed HD, with autonomous recording on computer media. Since then, TFS has been the precursor to all data solutions. This work have been formalized in 2007, with the division TSF DATA : the sustainability of capture digital computer media, presenting an offer innovative "mobile laboratory" 3D is needed today and the challenges it raises are important, both technically and financially.
The European market requires a different economic model than the American studios. TSF has taken a leadership role by working hand in hand with stereographers and producers to establish a unique proposition of uptake technologies, visualization and data management Stereoscopic filming for an international scale.
Member of the SMPTE, the BKSTS, partner and member of the AFC and UP3D, Danys actively shares with the international community to learn and communicate the expertise of French cinema.
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 Stephane Cassous
Graduate by the International Institute of Image and Sound (3is) in 2001, he creates the same year with Gallien Chanalet-Quercy and Nicolas Lauwers the production company Cow Prod.
He exercises the various jobs of Director, cameraman, editor, while participating in the development of the 3D within the company, working on the Haribo 3D commercial.
Stereo cameraman then editor on numerous 3D movies between 2003 and 2011, he edits the completeness of the movie " Une nuit au Cirque 3D " in 2010. Healso realizes a 3D short program of 3x3min: " the Ali Bobo private hospital ".
In 2011 he is responsible in particular for the realization of shots chase on the documentary "Mushers - the sled dogs odyssey ".
Today he's in charge of the artistic part of Cow Prod and deals everyday with 3D programs. | | --------------------------------------------------------------------
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 Pascal Charpentier
Stereograph special effects specialist Graduaded as cameraman, Pascal Charpentier quickly, started working in shooting for special effects.
1988 – 1992: Being special effects assistant (Claude Copin, Olivier Gillon, Patrick Bokanowsky Christian Guillon), he developped his skills in "traveling" through a large range of techniques and traditional special effects departments: Mechanical and atmospheric, animation and animatronics, models and effects fluids, optical tricks to shooting and postproduction.
1993 – 1998: Hired by the company Ex Machina as a supervisor of special effects and involved in the opening of the feature film department, he developed tools and procedures applied to digital special effects.
Trainer since 15 years: INA, Goblins, Fémis, ArtFx, Cifap he also supervised as education director, the films produced from 2004 to 2006 by the students of the Melies school located in the city of Orly.
Responsible for the special effects department of CSE from 2000 to 2001, he is also a member of UP3D board.
Pascal Charpentier has supervised visual effects for numerous feature films including: The Thousand and One Nights, Let there be Light, Mary of Nazareth, The Eighth Day, The Fifth Element, Washington Square, Step Mom...
Stereographer since 2006, he supervised filming and post production and have been special effects director of several films produced by the companies AmaK and N3Dland (The Awakening Giant, Dragonride, Tiffauges SEAREX).
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 Eric Deren
Senior stereographer,
Eric Deren started out as a computer hobbyist in the 80's, using early home computers as artistic tools for music, animation, and procedurally generated imagery. After going to university at Georgia Tech for Electrical Engineering, he began a career in computer animation and visual FX. In 1996, he formed Dzignlight Studios to service the animation and visual effects needs of the production community. It was with Dzignlight Studios that Deren first worked on a stereoscopic 3D production for Pfizer Pharmaceuticals in 1999, which was a mix of both live action and CG.
Since then, Deren has worked on over 50 stereoscopic 3D productions, including 4D ride films for Walt Disney’s “Disneyland” theme park, and the Anheuser-Busch theme park “Busch Gardens”, as well as trade show and industrial projects for companies as varied as Kia, Parke Davis, IBM, Delta Airlines, and AT&T.
In the 2D world, Deren’s animation company Dzignlight Studios is currently under contract with Discovery Channel and the History Channel to produce animation for their top HD shows, including “Dr. G: Medical Examiner” and “SuperTools”, and they are currently working with NBC Peacock Productions for an upcoming Discovery Channel show “Animal Attacks”.
In 2007, Deren single-handedly executed the Paramount Pictures “Spiderwick Chronicles” stereoscopic 3D conversion test and achieved results that in many situations surpassed In-Three, ILM, IMAX, Sony Pictures, and Paramount’s internal team
In addition to his production experience, Eric Deren is also a sponsored skydiving athlete; having logged over 3500 skydives since 1996. In 2005, Deren was part of a skydiving demonstration team that performed at the Al Ain Aerobatic Air Show in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and he also holds several skydiving world records, one of which he documented in 3D: http://www.dzignlight.com/stereo/skydiving.shtml
This segued rather effectively into doing on-set stereoscopic production and post-production work for the upcoming 3D IMAX film “Human Flight 3D” which is a documentary/drama about the Red Bull Air Force skydiving and BASE jumping team, shot in Switzerland and Florida in 2009 using Arri 235 and SI2K mini cameras. This project also has a significant 3D conversion aspect that Deren is managing.
Last February, Deren became stereoscopic supervisor and on-set stereographer for the indie thriller “Hidden 3D”, produced by Don Carmody and shot in Quebec near Montreal. He deployed Sony F23 CineAlta HD cameras with Zeiss DigiPrimes in an SwissRIG beam-splitter rig and averaged 14 set ups per day, all on location, during the 33-day shoot.
In the summer of 2010, Deren was hired as the stereoscopic supervisor and stereographer on the $80M Disney 3D feature “Gnomeo and Juliet”, which was a conversion. Immediately thereafter, Deren was the first unit stereographer for “The Amazing Spiderman”, a $250M live action 3D feature from Sony/Columbia.
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 Alain Derobe
Stereographer Internationaly known, Alain Derobe has oriented his work towards S-3D images since 1992. He was initially Director of photography for cinema and advertising films from 1966 to 1990. Alain Derobe founded AFC (French association of directors of photography), he is now president of UP3D, a euopean stereographers' association.
He started to develop the systems he needed for stereoscopic shot and with Didier Bogard he installed a line which allows to install steoscopic units for a 4 metre-wide screen.
He was stereographer on "Safari3D", "Camargue", "Chartreux, "Irruption", "Héros De Nimes", "La R’volle", and the last production of Amak "Réveil Des Géants" as well as many corporate and event films.
Alain Derobe is trainers about 3D from many years.
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 Lionel Fages
Producer and founder of CUBE, Lionel Fages discovered commercials and CGI in 1984. Starting out as production assistant at VIA/SOGITEC, he collaborated on the production of the earliest CGI commercials in France. In 1987he managed the commercial film department of Ex Machina.
Since 26 years he’s worked on over 150 commercial spots.
He was also very involved with major corporate and special event films (3D, Motion Rides…) and produced the 35 mm 3D film « Irruptions » for the new theme park Vulcania.
Many young CGI artists/animators (Pierre Coffin, Tanguy de Kermel, Pascal Vuong, Louis Clichy, Nicolas Deveaux, Rémi Chapotot…) directed their first films thanks to him and are now recognized as major talents by the profession.
He regularly participates on the juries of the best animation schools (Supinfocom, Ensad, Gobelins…) and scouts for new talent which is launched by CUBE, the young animation studio which he runs in Paris.
In 2007, CUBE produced a world premier : the 1st pilot for an animated series in 3D, Kaelou . The first public screening took place on Dimension 3 Festival and immediately after opened the Annecy animation film festival.
Also in 2007, CUBE participated in 2 new productions for Vulcania : The Waking of the Giants in 3D and Magma Explorer III a 5 screens simulation film.
In 2008, 55 minutes of CGI animation was produced for Freej, a new major theme park in Dubai.
In 2009, CUBE produced an 4D motion ride for Futuroscope theme park: Ecodingo (directed by Jerzy Kular and Jean-François Henry) and also an Imax 3D film directed by Pascal Vuong called Sea Rex.
For the 2010 Universal exhibition of Shangaï, Cube produced an exceptional film for the “Pavillon of Monaco” and the first episode of the fantastic cartoon series Kaelou will be diffused on Canal +. | | --------------------------------------------------------------------
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 Alaric Hamacher
Alaric Hamacher is stereographer and Director of Virtual Experience. Alaric Hamacher has an MA in Film Sciences from Paris VII and a degree in directing and producing from the TV and film school Munich (HFF München).
He was responsible for feature film co-productions at Advanced Media AG in the late 1990's, before setting up his own business Virtual Experience in 1999. This production company, which he jointly manages with his brother Jérôme Hamacher, is specialized on stereoscopic 3D productions. Cyberheidi 3D, 2107 - Quest for Sustainability and Delusion 3D are just some of their projects... The youngest production Level 3D is distributed in germany as preshow movie to Avatar. Alaric Hamacher has been teaching stereo 3D at german film schools and international conventions of digital cinema professionals.
He is also vice president of UP-3D the association of European 3D professionals. | | --------------------------------------------------------------------
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 Kommer Kleijn
Kommer Kleijn SBC is a Director of Photography and stereographer specialized in visual effects and special formats, also active in image technology research. He has shot and supervised visual effects for many special venue and large format movies and also has photographed many of those. Among them are 12 stereoscopic productions, one IMAX 3D.
He is a teacher in 3 Belgian film schools, is an SBC and EDCF board member, chairs the SMPTE 21DC Additional Frame Rates Ad Hoc group and participated in SMPTE DC28.40 stereoscopic.
He is a regular speaker on international image technology conferences and was recently awarded the "Bert Easey Technical Achievement Award" by the BSC for his determinition in the process of standardizing the 60 fps frame rate for Digital Cinema projection.
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 Kasimir Lehto
Cinematographer and S3D filmmaker, Kasimir Lehto has worked in feature films, commercials and music videos since 1998. For the past 4 years, he has concentrated on 3-D fimmaking, focusing on the methods of how S3D should be used in narrative storytelling.
He has collaborated as a research consultant and content creator on a research project that measures the experiental value of S3D.
He has shot and co-produced number of S3D short films, promotional films and the first Finnish S3D commercial for cinema use.
He co-founded the company Stereoscape Ltd and currently works as a freelance 3-D D.P. and
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 Cédric Lejeune
Workflow consultant for high-end VFX and digital cinema, managing director of Workflowers, Cédric Lejeune works around the world setting complex pipelines and training people to get the best out of them. He began in 2000 as a Smoke artist working on TribalX a complex full CG/MoCap production for children. In 2001, he became application engineer for the French Discreet / Autodesk reseller, in charge of MoCap software (Kaydara Filmbox), infrastructure products (DVS, Telestream, Max-T), creative systems (Flame, Smoke) and then DI / colour grading (Colossus/Lustre). He was in charge of the implementation of the first ever industrial DI pipeline at Éclair Laboratoires in 2002 and then different configurations in Paris (Mikrosimage, Duboi, Sylicone) and Madrid (Technicolor).
In 2006, he started his own company, Workflowers, to provide services to post-production and DI facilities all around the world. As per the experience gained on previous installations he was able to help film labs in the transition to digital and help post-production to step into the film world, a very unique and successful combination of skills. He also worked for software vendors on the testing of applications and creation of demo content for trade-shows. His expertise on pipelines and colour science helped to build several complex pipelines from Australia (Efilm, Digital Pictures) to Mexico (Lupe Post), thru Moscow (Cinelab), Copenhagen (Filmek), Paris (Film Factory), Montreal (Fake), LA (Technicolor)…
In 2008, Workflowers released the first plugin pack for Autodesk Lustre, extensively used on commercials and feature films (CinePostProduction Berlin, Technicolor Montreal…). More recently, Cédric has been involved in the management of colour in a more global approach, from the camera to the deliverables, to provide consistency and maximum quality (high dynamic range) all along the post.
Integrating the differences of markets and cultures, Cédric Lejeune brings by listening to people and understanding their work a much appreciated human layer on top of the technology. | | --------------------------------------------------------------------
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 Bernard Mendiburu
Bernard Mendiburu is a stereographer and digital cinema consultant working with feature animation studios in Los Angeles, where his credits includes Meet The Robinsons and Monster vs Aliens. He just published 3D Movie Making, Stereoscopic Digital Cinema from Script to Screen with focal Press.
His lectures and workshops on 3D cinema were selected by Laïka and CalArt's Experimental Animation department. In 2009, Bernard presented a paper on 3D Workflows at the SPIE Stereoscopic Display and Applications conference and at the NAB's Digital Cinema Summit. He gave the Paris' Dimension3 two days workshop on 3D Post Production. Bernard Mendiburu joined recently the 3D@Home Consortium's Advisory Committee on 3D Quality and was an active member of the SMPTE 3D Task Force.
Bernard Mendiburu collabore aux lettres de veille technologique de Insight Media et Veritas in Visus. Il a publié le livre « 3D Movie Making, Stereoscopic Digital Cinema from Script to Screen » chez Elsevier et travaille à un second ouvrage consacré au nouveau langage stéréoscopique dans le cinéma et la télévision en relief. Il est membre du comité d'experts du consortium « 3D at home » et des groupes du SMPTE travaillant sur les standards en production 3D. | | --------------------------------------------------------------------
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 Jeff Olm
Jeff Olm's first feature film credit was The Fifth Element when he worked with Director Luc Besson at James Cameron's Digital Domain. With over 65 feature film credits and a multitude of television and commercial credits, Jeff has gained extensive experience working thehigh end systems including Lustre, Scratch, Baselight,Nuke, Smoke, and Flame.
In 2003 Jeff was hired by Autodesk to launch the Lustre productin the US at NAB and IBC Europe. He has consulted on data based workflows and trained colorists for Technicolor, Sony, Red Car and AscentMedia. Jeff's history includes senior colorist and artists positions with Sony Pictures Imageworks, Dreamworks Animation, Disney FeatureAnimation, Cinesite, and Discreet (Autodesk). Jeff has recently contributed to the look development, stereo post-production workflow, and DI color correction for 3 stereoscopic features coming out in 2010. | | --------------------------------------------------------------------
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 Cédric-Alexandre Saudinos
Producer, director and stereographer, he is one of the associates of Parallell Cinema, a Paris-based S3D production company After a Master's Degree in Philosophy at La Sorbonne University, Cédric-Alexandre Saudinos joins Chamaerops Productions.
He directed or produced a dozen documentaries, about forty TV-ads, numerous corporate films, a weekly show for France 3 and a monthly show for Cinaps TV.
Trained in S3D by Alain Derobe, he originally had an empirical and practical approach before devising with David Steiner way to systematize observations and calculations into predictive method. He founded Parallell Cinema in 2009 with his associates David Steiner and Carlo Sirtori.
The same year, he designed the S3D capabilities of FrameForge Previz Studio. FrameForge became the standard solution to storyboard and previsualize in S3D, used by Sony 3D, 3ality Digital, Principal Large Format, etc. In 2010, he co-directed Stereo 3D Filmmaking: The Complete Interactive Course, a 14h training package which greatly contributed to the spreading of S3D techniques. The package recieved a "Dimmy Award" at Dimension 3 2010 for "outstanding interactive S3D".
In 2010, Alexandre advised Dassault Systèmes and the European MEDIA Program about S3D and is one of the contributors to the "White Book of S3D" of the French Federation of Cinema Industries (FICAM). He shoots helf a dozen experimental 3D shorts, and is a teacher in S3D at CIFAP and EICAR film schools.
In 2011, Alexandre is Canal +'s advisor for S3D and was Canal +'s lead stereographer on the OM-PSG 3D soccer game. He's the stereographer of Salle Pleyel 3D, a series of 5 concerts shot in multicameras, and of La Troisième Voie (The Third Way), a very ambitious 26-min cop story. He also was in charge of the 2D-3D conversion of Irma's music videoclip "I Know".
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 Simon Sieverts
S3D consultant After producing over 100 TV and cinema commercials (eg McDonald’s. Deutsche Telekom, Wrigleys), documentaries and music videos (eg Hives, Mando Diao), Simon was introduced to stereoscopy with the Phillips Wow screen!). Using the Fuji W1 and Canon EOS 450 cameras, Frameforge 3D, Photoshop and an Infitec Projection System, Simon has specialized in stereoscopic previsualisation and storyboarding. Apart from work in advertising (Microsoft, Mercedes Benz, Sky Germany), Simon created the Stereo Previs for the Potsdam HFF Filmschool featurette “Topper Gibt Nicht Auf”.
Simon has talked about stereo & storytelling at the following events: Dimension3 Expo (Paris), Cinec (Munich), Sound Technicians annual meeting (Leipzig), Medientage (Munich), Ateliers Orange de la creation (Paris).
Simon lives between Munich, Berlin and London.
You can reach him at www.facebook.com/treehaus3D
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 Tommaso Vergallo
Italian and Swiss citizen, Tommaso Vergallo lives in Paris with his family for several years. He got a film director diploma from the Art School of Lausanne (film department Ecole des Beaux-Arts,DAVI). He made several short films and then specialized in digital postproduction. He has been customer advisor and digital transfer operator at Swiss Effects and has participated in the creation of a method of transferring video to film during 4 years. In January 2000 he was productions manager in the digital film lab Duboi and collaborates with the process Duboicolor, on some thirty feature films, including Amelie, by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Brotherhood of Wolves by Christophe Gans, Asterix and Obelix, Mission Cleopatra by Alain Chabat, and also René by Alain Cavalier or 24 Hour Party People, by Michael Winterbottom or Ten by Abbas Kiarostami.
From 2003 to 2006 he was productions manager in the company Digimage and closely involved in the success of Mondovino by Jonathan Nossiter. He also worked on Malabar Princess by Gilles Legrand, La petite Lili by Claude Miller, Yes by Sally Potter and Dogora by Patrice Leconte.
After a short stay at Quinta Industries in 2007, he is actually the manager of the Digital Cinema Departement of Digimage Cinema on a brand new site dedicated to digital film postproduction and technology watch. Home by Yann Arthus Bertrand, Mic Macs à tire-larigot by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, The wild grass by Alain Resnais, The Beaches of Agnès, by Agnès Varda and Oceans by Jacques Perrin are his latest post productions supervised at Digimage Cinema. | | --------------------------------------------------------------------
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 Thomas Villepoux
Stereographer and Cinematographer. Graduate of the famous Louis Lumiere cinematography school in Paris, he becomes a cinematographer specialized in commercials and vidéo-clip. First self-educated in 3D, he studies stereoscopy with Alain Derobe, then with Yves Pupulin from the Binocle society. He Works as a 3D specialized DP for Cow Prod, then since 2009, as a Stereographer for Binocle.
He gets involved in all sorts of 3D projects such as commercials (Bouygues Telecom, Audi, Burburry,…), documentaries, features, but also multicameras live broadcast (football and rugby matches, circus, opera, theatre, fashion show by Dior, for Orange TV, Canal +, Sky 3D…). He’s member of the UP3D association.
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