Dream Flight


Dream Flight 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, an extension of the Pascal programming language based on Abstract Graphical Data Types.

Awards

The film was shown at the SIGGRAPH '82 Art Show and the SIGGRAPH ’83 Electronic Theater and received several awards including: