Imagina : Prix Pixel-INA
Imagina : the forum of images beyond imagination
Imagina, the forum of images beyond imagination, was an
event organised by INA (Institut National de l'Audiovisuel) and the
Monte-Carlo Television Festival, between 1982 and 2000
Imagina was devoted to the following fields :
- computer-generated images and automatic animation
- digital production and special effects
- games and virtual communities
- intelligent agents and extended reality
- virtual worlds and cyberspace
- webcasting
- sound synthesis
- architectural spaces
- medical scanning.
Imagina reassemble professionals on four main activities :
A Set of Papers, Panels and Workshops
convening international specialists, and dealing with the most remarkable innovations in new image technologies and their applications in the following fields : television, cinema, games, web, medical and architecture ;
An International Animation Festival : the 'Prix Pixel-INA'
Competition, enabling the public and a professional jury to reward every year the best international productions using these new creative tools
An Innovation Village, a real 'laboratory of the future'
presenting innovative installations, applications and products which ambition is to discover new fields of experimentation and research incorporating virtual images
An Industrial Exhibition,
The European rendez-vous of professionals in computer-generated images, computer graphics artists, designers, artists, cinema professionals, software editors, hardware manufacturers, industrials, service providers, researchers, scientists, students...
Prix Pixel INA
In the space of 19 years, the "Prix Pixel-INA" awards have become a touchstone of the state of the art and of world-wide production in computer graphics and special effects.
Awards attributed by the audience
ArtWorks with a strong artistic content and outstanding aesthetic originality. |
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"SAKURATEI"
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Schools & Universitiesworks by students |
Or another example :
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"DUST CITY"Realisation : Sébastien DROUIN - Christophe MUTIN - Olivier DUMONT
and below :
UN TEMPS POUR ELLE
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Cinema/television special effectscinematographic works or videograms incorporating visual or special effects
made with |
The Matrix |
THE BORROWERRealisation : Peter HEWITT |
Fiction (short films and feature films)works with a clear narrative structure |
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"STICKY BUSINESS"Realisation : Ed. TAYLOR 96 : Toy Story |
Credits and channel logoscredit and logo sequences made using computer graphics |
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COUPE DU MONDE FIFA 98
Hard./Soft. : Mac, SGI, Explore, Flame, Photoshop |
Games (intros and kinematics)only game intros and kinematics will be judged |
Some Outsiders
ODDWORLD : L'EXODE D'ABE
Plus, big classics Tomb Rider... |
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Theme parksworks specially made for theme parks |
Really difficult to render through low quality web video... |
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Advertisingcommercials made using computer graphics techniques |
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Animation seriesa pilot or episode of a series. The quality of the screenplay will be taken into account |
Depending upon the year, a bit like the "Fiction" award | |
Science (simulation, visualisation, research)works concerned with simulation, data base exploration and the visualisation or scientific or architectural phenomena |
We will look deeper in that subject later on, here, let's see that scientific visualisation may be really beautiful, let's look at a bat.
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CHIROPTERES VIRTUELSBat's behaviour Hard./Soft. : PC, Lightwave 96 : The Visible Human Project Production : NCAR's Scientific Computing Division |
Music Videomusic-based clips incorporating computer graphics or special effects sequences |
and what about a bit of Pink... |
Réalisateur: Antoine BARDOU-JACQUET 96 : Titre : Rolling Stones " Like a Rolling Stone " Production : Midi Minuit Partizan |
Direct access to the list of winners