Pôle Pixel de Villeurbanne unveils its miracle factory in pictures

• The Pôle Pixel de Villeurbanne is home to a large number of shoots and digital effects creation renowned throughout France.

• It is inaugurating a general public program with the exhibition “Special effects, burst the screen!

  », Which presents different trades.

• The opportunity for the Pixel Cluster to show its excellence in these fields, and to give birth to vocations in a region favorable to moving images.

A film is like a magic trick: we know that everything is wrong, but we let ourselves be taken all the same. If a conjurer is reluctant to show his tricks, the Pixel Pole of Villeurbanne (Rhône), for his part, reveals the secrets of special effects in the cinema in an interactive exhibition, “Crve the screen”, which runs until March 27.

Studio 54 houses various modules presenting the fascinating world of special effects, from the end of the 19th century to the present day.

Visitors can experience some of them by taking the form of a flying dragon, by lending their face to an

creature

… Thanks to a QR code, a small trailer shows its performance at the end of the course.

This fun and informative experience inaugurates a general public program to present the activities of the Pôle Pixel which take place next door, well hidden from view ...

A pivot of the image industry in France

“Around 500 people work here every day in the strictest confidence,” explains Géraldine Farage, director of Pôle Pixel.

This program will therefore allow the public to understand our professions, to open the doors of a large factory.

Starting with this exhibition which shows the key stages in the making of a film, from the production office to the cinema room, while highlighting companies that have started here.

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Behind its somewhat austere walls, the Pixel Pole is indeed a pivot of the image industry in the broad sense: “In addition to filming, we make animated films, video games and Twitch channels there. also go through 3D tools, post-production, and the Pixel Cluster brings together all the trades that manufacture them, ”continues the director.

A complete center for training and getting started

The Pôle Pixel also trained in these professions with its own school, Factory, until June;

it has since been renamed Eicar and moved to larger premises in the heart of Villeurbanne.

"But Eicar, and other schools like M Studio and Arfis, remain members of the Pixel Pole since we also form a community," specifies Geraldine Farage.

Support courses are planned for young graduates, to help them launch their activity in the region.

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It must be said that the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region is extremely dynamic in the moving image sector, of which the Pixel Pole would be a concentrate. “Our space of 30,000 m² makes it possible to find the entire production chain on site. Young people who want to get started in this environment often have difficulty locating the networks, the tools, to get started; this concentration makes it easier to create your first collaborations and develop more quickly. "

If the filming in progress is secret, let us quote the most recent which left the Pôle Pixel: the films 

and 

, the animated film

and the video game

by Mi-Clos. Studio.

While waiting for the next general public events: a festival in July around digital cultures, a program on immersion for fall 2022, shows, workshops and mediation projects with schools throughout the year. year.

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