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
| 1998 | BW |
| 2006 | Renaissance |
| 2015 | Animal Kingdom: Let's Go Ape |
| 2003 | A Species Odyssey (documentary) |
| 2006 | Skyland |
| 2006 | Galactik Football (season 1) |
| 2009 | Galactik Football (season 2) |
| 2003 | Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness | Eidos Interactive |
| 2003 | Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines | Atari |
| 2003 | Spawn: Armageddon | Namco |
| 2005 | 50 Cent: Bulletproof | Vivendi 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 |
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- ↑ Wave the first full privacy app chooses India for its worldwide launch, Adgully, 23 January 2021