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Marc Côté

Visual Effects Director, Camera e-Motion

The fusion of the real with the virtual

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More and more tools are available to better intergrate the vitual world to the real world. These tools, such as 3D and Motion Control, have evolved in time and more tools are comming out making the possiblities multiply. As well, the productions steps are evolving to be able to perfectly integrate live action to an entirely virtual world, without making it look fake. The MGM Grand project is the perfect example. In the past, it was impossible to prepare 3D intergration to the live action, without having the live action shot before. Today, the evolution towards the pre-production and the accessability of nessesary on-set tools anable us to go from post-production to the pre-production. These new ways, introduce us to a futur with infinite possiblitilies.

MGM Grand Experience, behind the scene, 2006

MGM Grande MGM Grand Experience, préviz & onset compositing, 2006

MGM Grande MGM Grand Experience, final integration, 2006

Marc Côté is the owner and president of the companies Camera e-Motion, FAKE Studio and DiyaWorks. He is also member of “The Order of engineers of Québec” and has a Master in Robotics in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institution of technologies (MIT). As such, he has been consultent for ARRI, ILM, Sony Image Work, Mark Robert Motion Control, and Camera Control for his expertise in the Motion Control.

As Visual Effects Supervisor|Designer, Marc Côté has credits in a serie of Films, Advertising and Music Videos including: C.R.A.Z.Y., Jericho Mansions, MGM Grand, Molson Export & Tornado, Victoria Secret, American Express, Crayola, and Reno Depot; and in the Music video of Corneille, Pilate, Sarah Harmer, Maria Cary, and Lili Fatale.

Additional credits include Motion Control Supervisor|Operator on movie like 300, The Covenant, C.R.A.Z.Y., The Fountain, St-Martyrs des Damnés, Down of the Dead, The Aviator, Secret Windows, Time Line, Extreme Ops, Station Nord, Pluto Nash, Driven, The Bone Collector, and Napoleon.