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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Racoon
Bruno Simon,
Philippe Gassie
Original: Racoon | 4429 * 3024px | 42.6 MB
Original: Racoon | 4429 * 3024px | 42.6 MB
Original: Racoon | 4429 * 3024px | 42.6 MB
Original: Racoon | 4429 * 3024px | 42.6 MB
Original: Racoon | 4429 * 3024px | 42.6 MB
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'Racoon' is the latest car to be presented by Renault at the Geneva Car Show. The promotion film about'Racoon' premiered at the Imagina '93 in Monaco, at a time when the car had not even been built. The film was shot at various locations in the South of France while the car was still on the drawing board and existed only as sketches, designs and as an untransportable wooden model. The fact that the virtual, three-dimensional 'Racoon' could appear in a 'real-live' film is possible because an outline model of the car already existed in a computer. The film could therefore show the car on the road with other cars and moving within its future, real environment. For this, Renault Design Industries had to devise their own video system, with the help of the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA).
For the first time, a virtual object could be shown in the real world, as a perfectly formed synthetic picture without the aid of drawing animation or retouching.
Technical Background
HW: Silicon Graphics
SW: TDI + Synthetic TV
For the first time, a virtual object could be shown in the real world, as a perfectly formed synthetic picture without the aid of drawing animation or retouching.
Technical Background
HW: Silicon Graphics
SW: TDI + Synthetic TV
Philippe Gassie (F), born 1953 in Paris, is Computer Design Manager at Renault Design Industriel. He studied economics and attended the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Since 1980 he has been in charge of Computer design applications.
Bruno Simon (F), born 1962 in Brest, is in charge o f the development and applications of Computer generated images at Renault Design Industriel. He attended the “Atelier Met de Penninghen” and the National School of Architecture, both in Paris. He works on improving the animation of virtual cars against real backgrounds.
Bruno Simon (F), born 1962 in Brest, is in charge o f the development and applications of Computer generated images at Renault Design Industriel. He attended the “Atelier Met de Penninghen” and the National School of Architecture, both in Paris. He works on improving the animation of virtual cars against real backgrounds.