My friend Olivier Jeannel showed me its last film and I really liked it ! So I decided to invite its work on my blog 
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Olivier is one of those talented guy used to be the director, the 3d artist and the compositor of some motion design works since several years. The first time I met him (some… years ago now…) he was doing a fantastic job for some Eurosport billboards using Lightwave and After effect (I was also using LW at this time). We started to exchange ideas about ways to “make things” in 3D. I was not yet so dedictated to the technical side of 3D, and I really think that those discussions with Oliver pushed me in this direction. It was obvious that its artistic vision was way beyond my limited talents in this area, and it was obvious that I was enjoying giving him technical advices for his various projects.
But lets speak about his new film. This is a command from the “Club des directeurs artistiques”. It is a french club of artistic directors making an awards ceremony every years for the best commercials. He was in charge of the official film. He used Softimage for all the 3D and I think it is a very good illustration of what an artist can do with ICE. Olivier never learned programming languages and his education background is not really oriented on math but rather on art as he did the “Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts” in France. He often try various ICE compounds found on the web and modify them using its own logic without writting a single line of code ! He told me that without an internet connexion, ICE would not be so useful to him . The nice thing about ICE is that it is really interactive. No need to always understand what you are doing, if the instantaneous feedback in the 3D viewport is looking nice 
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Finally, here is the film. Pump up the volume and enjoy this one man work :
