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Artificial Paradise, Inc is an experimental film anticipating a future where a major corporation has developed an unique software, based on organic virtual reality, which holds all the lost memories of humankind. A user connects to this database of the forgotten…what is he searching for?

Production : Condor & Jean-Paul Frenay
Director / editor / compositing : Jean-Paul Frenay
Main 3D artist / compositing : Sandro Paoli
3D artists : Sylvain Jorget and Sébastien Desmet
Additional 3D operators : Otto Heinen and Okke Voerman
Sound Design : Seal Phüric feat. Neptunian8

Distributed by Autour de Minuit and Onedotzero
Facebook : facebook.com/jpfrenay

Awards & Recognitions//
• Second Place of the Non Narrative Category @ Cutout Festival, EM
• Honorable mention for Artificial Paradise, Inc @ Fargo Film Festival 2010, USA
• Nominated for Best technical Realisation @ Animago Award 2010, DE

Full Publications and Festivals list : frenayjp.be/#96077/ARTIFICIAL-PARADISE-INC

Interview on Artificial Paradise, Inc made for Canal+ France : vimeo.com/25642156

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  • elias ressegatti plus 2 years ago
    wow. big big ups. really had me captive for the whole lenght...
    well done, now go concquer the world...
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  • Frederic Frenay 2 years ago
    WOW. Just the right section.
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  • Dave Lenz 2 years ago
    It's beautiful in several new ways that I can't exactly describe. Just... beautiful.
  • JP Frenay plus 2 years ago
    thanks !!
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  • n3design 2 years ago
    making of??? please!!!
  • Cole Fabbro 2 years ago
    Some insight into how this was made would be awesome
  • JP Frenay plus 2 years ago
    Hello guys. thanks for your interest. I'll try to do a making of soon. I'll surely post it here. But in a few days( I don't know excatly when) you'll be able to see some insight on some shots on the realflow case studies.
  • JP Frenay plus 2 years ago
    realflow case study : realflow.com/n_cs_aparadise.htm
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  • Gen X 2 years ago
    Muy interesante, muy atractivo :)
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  • gombabacsi endi 2 years ago
    incredible!
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  • BJTERS 2 years ago
    just wow.
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  • microust 2 years ago
    smashing.
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  • Scott Oyster 2 years ago
    Ok who are you. If THX1138 had a dream maybe this would be it. Uber extraordinary!
  • JP Frenay plus 2 years ago
    thanks for the reference !
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  • Kultnation plus 2 years ago
    This is awesome!, Rendering is sleeeek!
  • JP Frenay plus 2 years ago
    Thanks. By the way I really like your portfolio ;)
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  • massta 2 years ago
    Awesome!
    Was any of it created procedurally like in Houdini?
  • JP Frenay plus 2 years ago
    thanks. We didn't use Houdini and nothing procedural.
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  • Matt Frodsham plus 2 years ago
    Stunning. Didn't blink for 3 mins, I love this black and white slick render, the white organic fluid stuff... Awesome
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  • Ian Moore-Kilgannon 2 years ago
    amazing. say, it would be really interesting if to see how you guys did all of that. the crazy box effects and fluid creatures and the jittery film effect. Le tien est maintenant mon animation favorite. Merci beaucoup :D
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  • jpls 2 years ago
    absolutely amazing.
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  • Cesar Kuriyama plus 2 years ago
    wow... speechless...
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  • Da Ghost Prod by Pascal Cataye 2 years ago
    wow !!!! i just lost my two eyes and my brain...
    Just impressive !!!!!!
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  • Ian Clemmer plus 2 years ago
    nice one!
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  • ktx 2 years ago
    I was like: Oh, nice! a loading screen... But at the end of it was something in the vicinity of :O :O :O :O :O

    Marvelous job! My favorite part is the cube transformation :)
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  • Juan Sebastian Bosnic 2 years ago
    Love these chills running down my spine...

    Marvelous video guys.
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  • KevinW 2 years ago
    Man, that was amazing! I wish I could do stuff like that.

    --
    Kevin
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  • Jurriën Boogert 2 years ago
    very nice!
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  • Glen Dunn plus 2 years ago
    A true victory for style over content.
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  • adrian wyer 2 years ago
    pure genius, best short i think i've ever seen.... the film i always wanted to make.....

    superb work sirs!!!
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  • Mohamed ben Othman 2 years ago
    Amazing
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  • Naomi Covacs 2 years ago
    this is beautiful :)
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  • Pnge513 2 years ago
    beautiful jellyfishhhhhh!
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  • Matteo Carniato 2 years ago
    Really cool style, fluids are well made...

    Bye
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  • Otavio Bertolo 2 years ago
    Amazing Sound Design!
  • JP Frenay plus 2 years ago
    Thanks. if you want to check out what Seal Phüric is doing as a musician go to ambivalence.be
  • Rick Dolishny 2 years ago
    Thank you. I was going to ask about that. Really well done. Crank it to 11.
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  • freshtables plus 2 years ago
    i am glad that someone made me aware of this amazing piece of work. I can't get enough of this stuff.
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  • Esteban Diácono plus 2 years ago
    absolutely amazing in every possible sense of the word.
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  • kosby 2 years ago
    amazing... very very stunning~
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  • James Kenny 2 years ago
    blimey
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  • vargasz abolcs 2 years ago
    super great!
    i like the moment when colours come
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  • Stino plus 2 years ago
    Blown away... absolutely astonishing work. The feeling thru out the entire piece is very consistent and accompanied by excellent sound. Keep up the good work!
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  • Matthias Müller 2 years ago
    realy realy realy realy mind blowing !
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  • John H. King plus 2 years ago
    Amazing , beautiful , Incredible...Perfect ;)
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  • Christian Ruud 2 years ago
    Beautiful work and great sound design!
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  • deKO.lt 2 years ago
    Pure masterpiece
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  • hb s 2 years ago
    Simply beautiful!
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  • Mário Candido 2 years ago
    Crazy !!!
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  • Douglas Alves 2 years ago
    Well... amazing... no words... but... HOW?? A making of will be incredible welcome... But, it's a wonderful job...
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  • Kviar plus 2 years ago
    Génial!
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  • Maffe - Ricardo Maffessoni 2 years ago
    Simplesmente fantastico. Parabens. \o/
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  • Daniel Hopkins plus 2 years ago
    Just came to your film via facebook exp film group. Nice film, I particularly like it when you bring colour into it, as it really stands out.
    Nice to see, Cheers

    dan
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  • Adam Palmer 2 years ago
    like... wow...
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  • Tyler Wainright 2 years ago
    Awesome - I loved it!
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  • Colin Levy 2 years ago
    Whoa, that was amazing.
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  • Markus Hedlund 2 years ago
    this is how I visualize Google behind the scenes ;)
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  • Ryan Schmid 2 years ago
    really excellent.
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  • Michael O'Donohue 2 years ago
    I don't know how copyright law would affect this, seeing as this might be a work made for hire. But if you could make this available for download, I would be eternally in love with you guys. Because that was one of the coolest promo vids I've ever seen!
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  • La Film Fabrique 2 years ago
    Excellent !
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  • Gunther Gheeraert pro 2 years ago
    AWESOME! juste sublime...
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  • Rory McCawl 2 years ago
    Stunning.!
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  • crystalshining 2 years ago
    Wow....... Cool!
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  • Daniel Burke 2 years ago
    woah > insane, stunning. behind the matrix, are you and your crew neo or agent smith or both. love the soundtrack>vital component, and obviously the whole concept and execution. Sweet combo fluid and hard surface modeling, animation and very nice compositing...!!!
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  • MathieuB 2 years ago
    Fantastic... the blobby things and the "self recombinating cubes" are awesome :D
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  • Freshfolio plus 2 years ago
    Holy fuck!.... Just Awesome stunning cool!
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  • ElliotNess 2 years ago
    Beautiful. What tools were used?
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  • Jeon ht. 2 years ago
    I can't close my mouth while I watching this awsome unbelievable video. jesus christ..
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  • James Bukowiec 2 years ago
    How do you even THINK of something like this! Stunning!
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  • Dhani Ramadhan 2 years ago
    stunning work !!!!... OMG i love this..
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  • ENCORE 2 years ago
    cool !!!
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  • subsquare 2 years ago
    Absolutely fantastic.
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  • gabriel yanagihara 2 years ago
    Amazing. I love the mixed organic modeling with heavy industrial/mechanical feel.

    I can't imagine how they rigged the search program model to do that...
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  • Adriana de Barros 2 years ago
    Featured today at Scene 360 magazine (Scene360.com) and Scene 360 Illusion (illusion.scene360.com)
  • JP Frenay plus 2 years ago
    many thanks for the feature !!
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  • Marcelo Papf 2 years ago
    stunning - beautiful - AWESOME! Great work!=D
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  • Mariusz Kornatka 2 years ago
    Awsome
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  • mpared plus 2 years ago
    very cool posted at the curious brain
  • JP Frenay plus 2 years ago
    thanks for the comment and the post !
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  • VFX'N'3D 2 years ago
    very nice work!!!

    vfx-3d.blogspot.com/
  • JP Frenay plus 2 years ago
    thanks !!
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  • Chin Chee Young 2 years ago
    Gorgeous masterpiece. POtential to be part of the transformer movie. FUturism expressing mark I will be giving full marks for it =)
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  • Taras Lesko plus 2 years ago
    That was wild. Still trying to grasp what I just saw.
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  • thpriest 2 years ago
    treeeeeeeeemendous!
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  • skrat 2 years ago
    Jesus christ, that totally freaked me out, great stuff. You should contact Massive Attack and make a music video for them
  • JP Frenay plus 2 years ago
    Send me the phone number and I'll surely give them a call ;)
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  • Matt White 2 years ago
    wow, i will watch it again...
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  • Bastien ROGER - Réalisateur plus 2 years ago
    bon taf jean-paul ;] C'est bien ça qu'il fasse un peu de court chez condor, bonjour à sylvain de ma part !
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  • lostinspace 2 years ago
    very nice guys!! Love the black metal struts!!
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  • elvis75k 2 years ago
    wow! Awesome video.. indeed great stuff!
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  • STUDIO AYQIDO 2 years ago
    The best 3D audiovisual work I've ever seen, thanks for sharing, I'm ammmaaazzzzedd!
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  • Mahmud Chowdhury 2 years ago
    I was watching this video and listening to the 3rd track from ice cube's album Amerikka's Most wanted.
    I think the song was also called Amerikka's most wanted. Anyways the song sound good with this video; they blended together well.
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  • Sunny Thaper 2 years ago
    I'm having trouble figuring out what's more amazing, the 3d or the sound design!
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  • major addiction 2 years ago
    Yo Artificial Paradise, I'm really happy for you, I'm [going to] let you finish -- but Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time
  • JP Frenay plus 2 years ago
    Beyonce ?! I'm sorry I think I don't get it…
  • T-bag 2 years ago
    ^^^^lol
  • major addiction 2 years ago
    am just kidding man. the video was amazing
  • JP Frenay plus 2 years ago
    Kanye West repents ? ;)
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  • Ricky Grove plus 2 years ago
    Revelatory. Sound mix is amazing as is the technique. Standing in front of my computer and shouting, "Bravo" as loud as I can.
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  • chrleon 2 years ago
    Stunning beauty!
    I was totally mezmerised for the entire film!
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