Marc Miance
Marc Miance in 2019.
Born (1976-09-06) 6 September 1976
Meulan, France
NationalityFrench
EducationESRA
OccupationFilm producer
Years active1997–present
SpouseIsabelle Miance

Marc Miance (born 6 September 1976 in Meulan, France) is a film and television producer. He is the founder and CEO of Alkymia since 2010. He produced animated feature films such as Renaissance (2006) and Animal Kingdom: Let's Go Ape (2015).

Biography

Marc Miance was born in Meulan, in the suburbs of Paris. He developed an interest in computer-generated imagery (CGI) and video games at an early age. He studied at the ESRA school of cinema where he specialized in computer graphics, but dropped out after 2 years. He started to develop new techniques to create black and white CGI movies (Project BW).[1][2]

In 2000, Marc Miance co-founded Attitude Studio, a production company specialized in film animations. Attitude Studio created Eve Solal, an entirely computer-generated realistic character who was intended to star in films, TV shows, and video-games.[3] Attitude Studio innovated by developing an "emotion mapper" for the Eve Solal character, i.e. sets of body movements for each emotion triggered to make the animation less stiff, more human-like.[4] He sold Eve Solal to the telecom company Orange for 1 billion francs the same year that it launched, in 2000.[5] The following year, he showcased Eve Solal to ACM's Siggraph.[3]

From 2003 to 2005, he worked on several video game animations including Eidos’ Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness and Atari’s Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.[2] In 2004, inspired by Frank Miller’s Sin City, he created the visual concept of the black-and-white sci-fi animation film Renaissance, directed by Christian Volckman, and was in charge of the animation.[6][7] Still in 2005, he co-founded the production company Let'So Ya with Isabelle Miance (spouse) and Sandrine de Sacy.[2] Attitude Studio, now equipped with a 3,500m² motion capture studio near Paris, led a 4-million euro round of investment in 2008,[8] and closed its operations in April 2009.[2]

In 2010, Marc Miance became the executive producer of Animal Kingdom: Let’s Go Ape released in 2015 and starring Jamel Debbouze, the first European picture to be entirely filmed using motion capture.[9] In 2010, Marc Miance also created the company Alkymia specialized in computer graphics and motion-animated technologies,[2] a company which was instrumental to develop the technology for the movie Animal Kingdom: Let’s Go Ape,[10] including a 500-gram headset to capture the facial expressions of the actors.[2][11]

In 2019, Miance and Indian producer Anish Mulani launched the mobile browser Popshot.[12][1] In 2020, they focused the application on user privacy and renamed it Wave.[13]

Work

Films
1998BW
2006Renaissance
2015Animal Kingdom: Let's Go Ape
Television
2003 A Species Odyssey (documentary)
2006Skyland
2006Galactik Football (season 1)
2009 Galactik Football (season 2)
Video games (cinematics)
2003Tomb Raider: The Angel of DarknessEidos Interactive
2003Terminator 3: Rise of the MachinesAtari
2003 Spawn: Armageddon Namco
200550 Cent: BulletproofVivendi Games
2005 Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure Atari Inc
2005 Dungeons & Dragons: Dragonshard Atari Inc
2008 Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Conspiracy ivendi Games
2009 Wheelman Midway Games, Ubisoft
2009 Grey's Anatomy Ubisoft

References

  1. 1 2 "Marc Miance, builder of virtual emotions". THE NEWTECH MAG.NET. 2020-12-11. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Marc Miance". Executives.Technology. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  3. 1 2 Attitude; Miance, Marc (2001). "Eve Solal". ACM SIGGRAPH 2001 video review on Electronic theater program. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press. p. 13. doi:10.1145/945314.945327. ISBN 9781450374323. S2CID 45088455.
  4. ↑ Audrey Doyle, A lifelike virtual 'personality' becomes a rising star, CGW, 4 April 2001
  5. ↑ MAURIAC, Laurent (2000-11-08). "Eve Solal, plus vraie que nature". Libération.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  6. ↑ Holden, Stephen (2006-09-22). "Even in a Place Like Paris, It's Not Good to Live Forever (Published 2006)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  7. ↑ "Interview with Marc Miance of Attitude Studios | FirstShowing.net". www.firstshowing.net. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
  8. ↑ "Attitude Studio veut s'imposer dans l'animation 3D". LExpansion.com (in French). 2008-01-25. Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  9. ↑ "Un producteur Made in Mantois". calameo.com (in French). Retrieved 2020-12-31.
  10. ↑ à 19h04, Par Le 7 avril 2015 (2015-04-07). "Buchelay : il a inventé le casque de Jamel Debbouze". leparisien.fr (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ↑ "Pourquoi j'ai pas mangé mon père : Le défi fou de Jamel Debbouze". www.purepeople.com (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-08.
  12. ↑ "Indian Guy Has Built World's 1st Browser That Reimagines Screenshots And Enhances Web Surfing". IndiaTimes. 2019-12-19. Retrieved 2020-12-23.
  13. ↑ Wave the first full privacy app chooses India for its worldwide launch, Adgully, 23 January 2021
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