Dream Flight

Dream Flight
Frame from Dream Flight.
Directed by Philippe Bergeron
Nadia Magnenat Thalmann
Daniel Thalmann
Written by Philippe Bergeron
Pierre Lachapelle
Production
company
Release date
  • 1982 (1982)
Running time
 8 minutes
Country Canada

Dream Flight (Vol De Rêve) is a 3-D computer-animated fiction film completely produced by computer. The film was produced in 1982 at the University of Montreal and directed by Philippe Bergeron, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann and Daniel Thalmann.

It is the story of a creature living on another planet and dreaming that he flies across space like a bird and arrives on Earth. Typical scenes are set in Paris and New York. Others show natural scenes such as ocean, trees, and birds.

The film was completely programmed using the MIRA graphical language,[1] an extension of the Pascal programming language based on Abstract Graphical Data Types.[2]

Awards

The film was shown at the SIGGRAPH ’83 Electronic Theater and received several awards including:

  • First Award, Computer Graphics, Online, 1982
  • Golden Sheaf Award, Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival, Canada, 1983
  • Special Award, Murcia Film-Festival,[3] Spain, 1984
  • Chris Award, 32nd Annual Columbus International Film Festival (Ohio, USA), 1984
  • Special Award, Facets Multimedia, Chicago, 1985
  • Raster Technologies award 1986

References

  1. ↑ N. Magnenat-Thalmann, D. Thalmann, MIRA-3D: A Three-dimensional Graphical Extension of PASCAL, Software-Practice and Experience, Vol.13, 1983, pp.797-808
  2. ↑ N. Magnenat-Thalmann, D. Thalmann, The Use of 3D High-Level Graphical Types in the MIRA Animation System, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 3, No 9, 1983, pp.9-16
  3. ↑ Murcia Film-Festival


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