Dream Flight (Vol De Rêve) is a 3-D computer-animated short fiction film completely produced by computer. The film was created in 1982 at the University of Montreal and was directed by Philippe Bergeron, Nadia Magnenat Thalmann and Daniel Thalmann.
Plot It is the story of a creature living on another planet and dreaming that he flies across space like a bird and arrives on Earth. Typical scenes are set in Paris and New York. Others show natural scenes such as ocean, trees, and birds.
Production The film was programmed using the MIRA graphical language,N. Magnenat-Thalmann, D. Thalmann, MIRA-3D: A Three-dimensional Graphical Extension of PASCAL, Software-Practice and Experience, Vol.13, 1983, pp.797-808 an extension of the Pascal programming language based on Abstract Graphical Data Types.N. Magnenat-Thalmann, D. Thalmann, The Use of 3D High-Level Graphical Types in the MIRA Animation System, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Vol. 3, No 9, 1983, pp.9-16
Awards The film was shown at the SIGGRAPH '82 Art Show and the SIGGRAPH ’83 Electronic Theater and received several awards including: First Award, Computer Graphics, Online, 1982 Golden Sheaf Award, Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival, Canada, 1983 Special Award, Murcia Film-Festival,Murcia Film-Festival Spain, 1984 Chris Award, 32nd Annual Columbus International Film Festival (Ohio, USA), 1984 Special Award, Facets Multimedia, Chicago, 1985 Raster Technologies award 1986
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External links Dream Flight