Google's first virtual reality doodle honors special effects pioneer Georges Melies
Nexus Studios produces tribute film to French filmmaker

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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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