A team of specialists, engineers, artists and technicians.The engineering company AVANTILLES® is:
Two studios, one based in Fort-de-France, the other one in Paris, ensure the success of all your productions. AVANTILLES® joins together various experts in virtual reality, video games and computer animated films (writers, illustrators, 3D computer graphists designers, real-time programmers, game designers…). Most of them are from Caribbean.
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Edutainment softwareWe create innovating and ludic activities as resources for teaching and learning. |
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Virtual RealityWe create all types of virtual models for communications and advertising use. |
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Video games and serious gamesWe create interactive scenarios providing intuition, logic, observation and discovery contents. |
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Computer 3D animated films We design and perform 3D computer animated films for videos clips, TV ads and TV series. |
Interactive products providing texts, images, sounds, videos, animations with intuitive control and navigation through a "customized" interface.
We provide the required support best suited to the needs of our customers: Off-line on CD-ROM, DVD, Online, Internet, Intranet, Extranet and hybrid solutions.  
From Conception to Development until Translation in foreign languages (French, Spanish, German, Creole...), AVANTILLES® ensures a both professional and personal attention to each and every customer.  
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Fragile-Fatale, The Young Mamiwata is drawn from an Afro-Carib fantastic legend written by Patrick Chamoiseau. It’s the occasion to advance the Afro-Caribbean cultural patrimony, by means of its language, its history, its art of cooking, its traditional music, its humor and its art of living, so characteristic. Humor, magic, sparkling and rich universe are the components of this magnificent odyssey! |
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One of the most important projects of the moment in Martinique: the modernization of the departmental harbour of Grand-Rivière, a fishing village situated at the northeast corner of Martinique. The General Council decided to strike the spirits asking Avantilles to create two virtual models: one of the actual harbour, one of the future harbour! |
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Which is this project of harbour, precisely? |
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Small village of fishermen, rather isolated on the Atlantic coast, subjected to important swells and deserted little by little by its young population which pains to take the changing, Grand-Rivière is seeking a new breath. |
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Why a virtual model? |
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This project of more than 25 millions euros which spreads out over 2 years is very complex. It requires to be explained, not only to the local population, in particular to explain the need for the embarrassment caused during all the construction, but also to the persons external to the village, generally rather skeptics on the project feasibility. |
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What was you asked for? |
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To save the inheritance, the General Council thought that it would be useful to keep a memory of the actual Grand-Rivière, which is in addition a very picturesque village, before its littoral frontage is not modified. |
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And for the future harbour? |
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A second model was to show the future Grand-Rivière. |
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To communicate, which solution did you choose? |
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| We chose the access of these two models on the Web. That means the optimization of the weight of the files and a work in low-poly, to allow a rapid access, even with a low rate connection, while keeping a good graphic quality. You can notice it while going on www.portdegrandriviere.com |
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A last word on this project? |
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We are very proud if our models. This of the actual village will make it possible to keep an “alive” trace of this so charming part of Grand-Rivière, and to make it known in the whole world. As for the model of the future harbour, it allows already the inhabitants, but also all the curious people to realize the importance of this project and to perhaps come to make a stopover. |
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Through this full 3D realization of a future business park, let's see how was the relationship with the client and the method that was chosen. |
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How did this project begin? |
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We were contacted by an urbanist from the CACEM, establishment gathering 4 cities of the center of Martinique: Fort-de-France, Schoelcher, Lamentin and Saint-Joseph. She was missionned by her supervisor, which had had the occasion to see our demos during a ministerial visit of our buildings, to examine closely the capabilities of Avantilles in term of innovating communication. The field of Virtual Reality being new for her, we presented several 3D models as their many possible exploitations. |
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Which was the customer requirement? |
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Our town planner had to install a 8 ha agro-industrial park in the village of Saint-Joseph which it had asked the design to an engineering office. This one had carried out a map including the main ways, the car parks and various landscape spaces. The unit was, however, virgin of buildings. What was important for the CACEM was to show the quality of the achievements and the services which it was able to offer to the companies there. It was necessary thus to set up a precise, relevant and percussive communication both for the elected officials and the local population. |
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Which solution did you propose? |
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She chose, on our advices, an animated film proposing a walk inside the park completely arranged, accompanied by appropriate voiced-off commentaries explaining holding and outcomes of the project. But, with this intention, it was necessary “to invent” agro-industrial, artisanal and services companies to simulate a park in full activity. This was for us the most exciting part of the job because we could then let express our creativity. |
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Which data were provided to you by the customer? |
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The engineering and design department provided us their numerical files representing the positioning of the roadway systems and their carriageway markings, the localization of the various vegetable species, of which much was unknown for us, and the site of urban furniture such as the benches, public lamps and bus stops. |
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How did you build the model? |
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Thanks to the topographic data of the SIGMA (Geographical Information System of MArtinique) got from the engineering departments of the General Council, we virtually recreated the pattern of the ground as well as part of the environment. As for the buildings, we were inspired from existing ones; we spent much time to photograph supermarkets, gasoline stations and medical centres, but also purification stations and garbage collection aeras. After having modelled and textured each element of the roadway system, vegetation and building, we put them together in the 3D scene. It remained to place here and there some characters and to animate some cars to make the model more alive. |
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How did you proceed the film? |
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In parallel, we built a storyboard and wrote the text of accompaniment, with the customer. We recorded the voice in a sound studio, then we calculated and assembled each sequence. Then followed a phase of compositing, because 2D sequences and special effects were necessary to link the whole. A small music to support the action, some sound effects and a completely new universe occurred in the middle of the countryside of Martinique. We finished film on a very aesthetic night effect because one of the important topics was the safety of the place. |
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Which was the reaction of your customer? |
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They were very satisfied because the end product went beyond their hopes! They were quite simply bluffés by the realistic side of the platform. Moreover, all this work helped to raise the good questions and to continue their reflexion about this next installation. |
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Which is your feeling after that? |
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We were glad to note their pleasure while watching the film and that consolidated us in the idea that Virtual Reality is a major asset for the projects of town planning. It really makes it possible to figure out, much better than with plans, all the possibilities of a future establishment. You can integrate the project in the existing environment and better realize the impact of its implantation. It is an incredible tool and it is reassuring to see that the customers realize that! |
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Fort-de-France, One of the richest cities of Great Caribbean, is the object of a great program of development and urban restoration, corresponding to a true desire of economic, commercial and artisanal revitalization. This model is made for you: partners of this program, investors, people from Martinique in France and abroad and all those which are interested in the "foyal" culture. |
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