Google's first virtual reality doodle honors special effects pioneer Georges Melies

Nexus Studios produces tribute film to French filmmaker

Published On
May 03, 2018
Virtual Reality Doodle

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Google has created its first Virtual Reality Google Doodle today, honoring Georges Méliès, the French filmmaker, illusionist and special effects pioneer.

The doodle plays out as a short film, produced by Nexus Studios, that can be watched either on mobile, Cardboard or Daydream by downloading the Google Spotlight Stories app, or in 360 degrees on the Google Spotlight Stories YouTube channel. In a tribute to his film "A Trip to the Moon" the Doodle shows him setting up a camera in front of a black-and-white scene of the moon and a rocket ship.

The project is a collaboration between Doodle Google Spotlight Stories, Google Arts and Culture and Cinematheque Francais. Méliès pioneered numerous technical and narrative film techniques in the early days of cinema. In a Google blog post, Laurent Manonni, director of Heritage at Cinemathèque Française, says: "The magic of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg today could not have been possible without Méliès' development of techniques across theatrical machinery, pyrotechnics, optical effects, horizontal and vertical dropouts, camera stops, crossfades, overprints, conjuring, editing effects, and color effects on film."

Google is celebrating him now because of the re-release date of what is considered to be one of his greatest masterpieces: "À la conquête du pôle (The Conquest of the Pole, 1912)."

Credits

Date
May 03, 2018
Production Company :
Nexus Studios
Director :
FX Goby
Director :
Hélène Leroux
Executive Producer :
Karen Dufilho
Executive Producer :
Jan Pinkava
Executive Producer :
Jessica Yu
Producer :
Mariano Melman Carrara
Executive Creative Director :
Christopher OReilly
Production Manager :
Derek Walsh
Head of Production :
Luke Youngman
Project Lead :
Mark Davies
Project Lead :
Dave Hunt
Art Director :
Hélène Leroux
Design :
Céline Desrumaux
Design :
Eléna Dupressoir
Design :
Signe Cold
Design :
Rebecca Crane
Lead Animator and Rigging Consultant :
Lucas Vigroux
Animation :
Edwin Leeds
Animation :
Florian Mounié
Animation :
Pierre Plouzeau
Animation :
Clement Fassler
Animation :
Frankie Swan
Modelling, Shading, Visual Effects and Spotlight Editor :
Dave Hunt
Modelling, Shading, Visual Effects and Spotlight Editor :
Jérôme Ferra
3D Generalist and Spotlight Editor :
Mark Davies
Visual Effects, Pipeline and Shaders :
Patrick Hearn
Assets Modelling, Shading and Rigging :
Dorianne Fibleuil
Assets Modelling, Shading and Rigging :
Signe Cold
Rigging :
Victor Vinyals
Maya Pipeline :
Tom Melson
Studio Manager :
Natalie Busuttil
Assistant Studio Manager :
Samira Tristani-Firouzi
Sound Implementation :
Mark Davies
IT Support :
Ryan Cawthorne
IT Support :
Thomas Crabbe
Music Composer :
Mathieu Alvado
Performer :
The London Symphony Orchestra
Recorded By :
Geoff Foster
Recording :
Air Studios
Programming and Mixing :
Samy Cheboub
Pro Tools Session Preparation :
Cécile Tournesac
Assisted By :
John Prestage
Orchestra Contractor :
Mario de Sa
Copywriter :
Norbert Vergonjanne
Audio Post Production :
Fonic
Dubbing and VR Mixer :
JM Finch
Sound Design :
Barnaby Templer
Sound Design :
JM Finch
Foley Editor :
Chris Swaine
Foley Artist :
Sue Harding
Sound Assistant :
Rory Hunter
Marketing Lead :
Perla Campos
Lead Engineer :
Jordan Thompson
UX Lead :
Diana Tran
Program Manager :
My-Linh Le
UX and Environmental Design :
Kevin Burke
Business Affairs Lead :
Madeline Belliveau
Product Manager :
Noga Eshed
Technical Lead :
Daniel Jeppsson
Creative Director :
Scot Stafford
Music and Sound :
Pollen Music Group
Associate Producer :
Sara Diamond
Senior Tools Engineer :
Josiah Larson
Engine Lead :
James Beattie
Software Engineer :
Andrea Hemphill
Software Engineer :
Guruji Panda
Lead QA Engineer :
Ravikumar Aluru
Lead Tools Engineer :
Morgwn McCarty
Audio Software Engineer :
Wayne Jackson
Production Coordinator :
Zaria Gunn
Google Arts and Culture :
Sixtine Fabre
Google Arts and Culture :
Valerie Pivan
Google Arts and Culture :
Anne Cisse
Google Arts and Culture :
Carolyn Concepcion
Google Arts and Culture :
Camille Jouneaux
Google Arts and Culture :
Claire Collet
Cinémathèque Française :
Frédéric Bonnaud
Cinémathèque Française :
Jean-Christophe Mikkailoff
Cinémathèque Française :
Laurent Mannoni
Cinémathèque Française :
Soraya Taous
Cinémathèque Française :
Xavier Jamet
Google France Marketing :
Alice Roy De Puyfontaine
Google France Marketing :
Jean-Philippe Becane

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