The PIDS Enghien is an event dedicated to digital creation in all its forms: from visual effects to virtual reality, through animation and 3D, the PIDS crosses the creative, technical, economic and creative challenges of a sector in perpetual evolution.

The organizers created the Digital Creation GENIE Awards in 2015, which aim to honor the talents of French digital creation.

GENIE Awards – The 2024 winners

Best Visual Effects – Feature Film

Bryan Jones (VFX Supervisor / Trésor Films – Pathé) – Pierre Procoudine-Gorsky (VFX Producer) / CGEV, MPC, NOID, Digital District & One Of Us

Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom
directed by Guillaume Canet

Laurens Ehrmann (VFX Supervisor Sr) – Julien Martins (VFX Supervisor) – Diego Cordier-Royer (VFX Producer) – Gladys Georges (VFX Coordinator) / The Yard The Yard
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny directed by James Mangold

Cyrille Bonjean (MPC VFX Supervisor) – Bruno Sommier(MacGuff VFX Supervisor)
Jean-Louis Autret (On-Set Supervisor) / MPC Paris & Mac Guff
Animal Kingdom directed by Thomas Cailley

Olivier Cauwet (BUF VFX Supervisor) – Simon Beausoleil (BUF VFX Producer)
BUF – CGEV – Mac Guff
The Three Musketeers – D’Artagnan / Milady directed by Martin Bourboulon

Thierry Onillon – Léo Ewald (VFX supervisors) – Philippe Sonrier (VFX Producer)
Eve de Montbrial (Coordinator VFX) / Mac Guff
Vermines directed by Sébastien Vanicek

Best Visual Effects – Series

Harry Bardak (VFX Supervisor) – Elisa Perez (VFX Producer) – Julien Martins (Compositing supervisor) – Pierre Jury (3D Supervisor) / The Yard
All the Light We Cannot See (Series – Netflix) created by Steven Knight

Thierry Onillon, Rodolphe Chabrier, Bruno Sommier (VFX Supervisors), Floran Royer (VFX Producer) / Mac Guff
Lupin S3 (Series – Netflix) created by George Kay

Jao M’Changama (VFX Supervisor), Sébastien Voisin & Justine Paynat-Sautivet, (VFX Producers) / Excuse My French / MPC – Mathematic – BUF – Mac Guff – LIGHT
The Walking Dead : Daryl Dixon (Series – AMC) created by David Zabel

Damien Stantina (VFX Supervisor) – Jessica Bethouart (VFX Producer) / BUF
Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty (Series – HBO Max) created by Max Borenstein & Jim Hecht

Geoffrey Guiot (VFX Supervisor) – Tony Botella & Olivier Emery (VFX Producers) / Trimaran VFX
Rise of the Vikings (docu-drama series – Canal + / Planète)

Best Visual Effects – Advertising

Mhamed Elmezoued & Tony Dugard (CG Sup.) – Alexandre Canivet, Carla Chataignon & Arthur Guibert (FX Artists) / Capsule Studio
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden – Death to the Dead Trailer directed by Stéphane Montel

Maeva Bonté (in charge of VFX, Fix Studio) – Bruno Maillard (VFX Supervisor, Fix Studio) – Marc Gutmann Marc Gutmann (3D Supervisor, Fix Studio) – Adrien Lepineau(VFX Supervisor, Reepost)
Fix Studio – Reepost
Betclic – The wave directed by Bruno Aveillan

Sébastien Voisin (Post VFX Producer) – Sylvain Sarradin (Lead 3D) – Michaël Marques (Flame Artist) – Jérôme Billet (Concept Artist) / Digital District
Canal + – Wakany’s Secret directed by Antoine Bardou-Jacquet

Antoine Moulineau (Creative Director) – Dan Vislocky (Animation Director) – Guillaume Raffi (Executive Producer) / LIGHT
Daft Punk (feat Julian Casablancas + The Voidz) ‘Infinity Repeating ACT 3 directed by Warren Fu

Stéphane Pivron (VFX Supervisor) – Guillaume Dadaglio & Mathias Barday (CG Supervisor) – Grégory Tournier & Nicolas Huguet (VFX Producers) / The Mill Paris
Jean Paul Gaultier – Divine directed by François Rousselet

Best character / creature

Chervin Shafaghi (VFX Supervisor) – Edouard Valton (VFX Producer) – Olivier Lourry (Art Director) – Abdou Karimi (CG Supervisor) / NOID
Peking Man: humanity’s last secrets (documentary)directed by Jacques Malaterre

Antoine Moulineau (Creative Director) – Dan Vislocky (Animation Director) – Guillaume Raffi (Executive Producer) / LIGHT

Daft Punk (feat Julian Casablancas + The Voidz) ‘Infinity Repeating ACT 3’ (music video)
directed by Warren Fu

Cyrille Bonjean (VFX Supervisor) – Loriane Lucas (VFX Producer) – Boris Kaufmann (CG Supervisor) – Philippe Zozor (Asset Supervisor) / MPC Paris
Animal Kingdom (feature) directed by by Thomas Cailley

Bruno Sommier (VFX Supervisor) – Thierry Onillon (VFX Producer Sr) – Valentin Gault (VFX Producer) – Francois Bonnière (CG Sup.) / Mac Guff
Animal Kingdom (feature film) directed by Thomas Cailley

Thierry Onillon – Léo Ewald (VFX supervisors) – Philippe Sonrier (VFX Producer) – Eve de Montbrial (VFX Coordinator) / Mac Guff
Vermin (feature film) directed by Sébastien Vanicek

Best environment

Mathieu Trévisan (Environmental artist) – Camille Juge (Compositing artist) – Antoine Gandon (Modeling artist) – François Masle (Compositing artist)/ The Yard
All the Light We Cannot See (Series – Netflix) created by Steven Knight

Chervin Shafaghi (VFX Supervisor) – Olivier Lourry (Art Director) – Abdou Karimi (CG Supervisor) / NOID
Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom (feature film) directed by Guillaume Canet

Laurens Ehrmann (VFX Supervisor Sr) – Julien Martins (VFX Supervisor) – Arnaud Ortmann (Compositing Supervisor) – Sandro Bertchi (Environment Artist)/ The Yard

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (feature film) directed by James Mangold

Stéphane Pivron (VFX Supervisor) – Guillaume Dadaglio & Mathias Barday (CG Supervisor) – Benjamin Lenfant (FX Artist) / The Mill Paris
Jean Paul Gaultier – Divine (commercial) directed by François Rousselet

Adrien Peze (VFX Supervisors) – Tony Botella & Olivier Emery (VFX Producers)/ Trimaran VFX
Rise and Fall of the Mayas (docufiction series – RMCD / National Geographic)

Meilleure simulation d’effets

Laurens Ehrmann (VFX Supervisor Sr) – Harry Bardak (VFX Supervisor) – Fabian Nowak (Simulation Supervisor) – Elisa Perez Elisa Perez (VFX Producer) / The Yard
John Wick: Chapter 4 (feature film) directed by Chad Stahelski

Lolet Ong (Post Producer VFX) – Arnaud Leviez (VFX Supervisor) – Michaël Marques (Flame Artist) – Andrei Saraliischi (Nuke Artist) / Digital District
Asterix and Obelix: The Middle Kingdom (feature film) directed by Guillaume Canet

Stéphane Pivron (VFX Supervisor) – Guillaume Dadaglio & Mathias Barday (CG Supervisor) – Benjamin Lenfant (FX Artist) /The Mill Paris
Jean Paul Gaultier – Divine (commercial) directed by François Rousselet

Best Student Film – VFX / CGI

Atomic Chicken
School of New Images

Shell
ESMA

Firemen
ArtFX

Kowloon
ArtFX

Rumble
Objective 3d

Silhouette
ArtFX

Guillaume Rocheron
honored at the GENIE Awards 2024

On the occasion of PIDS ENGHIEN (January 31-February 3, 2024), the Arts Centre and the town of Enghien-les-Bains are pleased to announce that Guillaume Rocheron, VFX supervisor at DNEG, winner of several Oscar ® BAFTA and VES Awards, will receive a Genie d’Honneur on Wednesday January 31, 2024 at the 10th edition of the GENIE Awards and will give an exceptional meeting on Friday February 2, 2024 at the Centre des arts d’Enghien-les-Bains.

GENIE d’Honneur 2024

The GENIE Visionary Award rewards a personality of the digital creation industry for significant and lasting contributions to the art and science by way of vision, artistry, invention and innovation.

Guillaume Rocheron is a VFX supervisor and winner of several Oscars, BAFTAs and VES Awards.

Guillaume began his career in the early 2000s at BUF in Paris, where he gained initial experience working on commercials and international feature films. In 2005, he moved to the UK to work for MPC, where he became a VFX supervisor, working on 24 feature film projects in 17 years.

During this period, Guillaume worked with such prestigious filmmakers as Ang Lee, Sam Mendes, Jordan Peele, Gareth Edwards and Alejandro G. Iñárritu.

In 2012, Guillaume received his first Oscar® for his work as VFX supervisor on Ang Lee’s critically acclaimed “Life of Pi”, for which he also won a BAFTA and a VES Award.

In 2019, he supervised the visual effects for Sam Mendes’ war film “1917”, for which he received his second Oscar® for Best Visual Effects and his second BAFTA, again in the same category.

Guillaume’s most recent projects include Jordan Peele’s supernatural sci-fi thriller “Nope”, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñaritu’s comedy “Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” and James Gray’s “Ad Astra”.