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Lamorlette Arnold and Eric Tabellion Los Angeles, February 12, 2011. REUTERS / JASON REDMOND

Two French, and Arnauld Lamorlette Tabellion Eric, received on Saturday February 12 at Los Angeles (California) Scientific and Technical Award of the Academy of arts and sciences of motion pictures, "for having invented a lighting process for synthetic images suitable for feature films. " As recalled by actress Marisa Tomei, who presented the gala dinner in Beverly Hills, "this important step in the evolution of global illumination techniques (Was) used for the first time on the movie Shrek 2 .

In total, ten statuettes and scientific techniques which have been delivered that night to engineers and inventors, in areas as varied as the motion capture of faces, steering gear, the realization of waterfalls safely, cabling systems and suspension for the cameras or the 3D visual effects tools.

designers of software for images synthesis Lamorlette Arnold, 46, and Eric Tabellion, 39, met in 1998 in Silicon Valley, where they worked for the company IDPs (since acquired by DreamWorks). "Global illumination simulates virtual way light bounces off objects and interacts with the geometry of the scene in order to obtain a more natural light, as in real life," they explain, stating: "We have designed a system efficient enough to be used on feature films. "

Prime beneficiary of the process of global illumination: the cartoon Shrek 2, produced in 2004 by Andrew Adamson, Kelly Asbury and Conrad Vernon for DreamWorks. The method is quickly used in a dozen other major productions Hollywood, which Megamind, Dragons etc. . who have avoided the look vintage enough raw digital images. "We did raise the bar visually," said Arnold Lamorlette who, accepting his award, thanked the producers of Shrek have "taken the risk of using a new technique on such a franchise.

Fifteen employees

Tabellion Eric is still working in animation for the same company of the "Valley." Lamorlette Arnold trained at the School of Public Works ("lack of training in computer graphics available at the time," he says), is co-founder of the famous company Franco-American special effects Buf, involved in the production of The City of Lost Children, Batman & Robin or Fight Club, and recipient of an Annie Award (the price of the animation) for special effects Shrek. He returned to France in 2007 and chose the South (Gémenos, between Aix and Marseille) to install its new digital society, The Bakery ("Bakery"), with fifteen employees. "Our advantage is we have a large technical approach, knowing well the needs of production," says French inventor become indispensable to Hollywood.