Fields of activity
Digital design and imagery
FROM DEVELOPMENT TO BROADCASTING, A CHAIN OF VALUE THAT GOES FROM STRENGTH TO STRENGTH
Lille Metropole is the 3rd most important city in France in terms of imagery and digital creation; home to 70 companies that employ 1,500 people and have 200 million euros in turnover.
Globally recognised expertise:
3D Imagery:
Many companies such as Stereograph, e-fijy, Hors-Format develop high quality content that is referenced and used across Europe.
A-Volute, a world expert in 3D sound, is the creator of “Nahimic”®, the world’s first universal 3D sound technology.
Lexip has developed a new generation of revolutionary 3D mouse
Video games:
Ankama, European leader of MMORPG with its best-selling game DOFUS (over 30 million gamers)
3Dduo, launches ‘Leehl’, the first WMORPG in 3D: try to survive in Lille in 2087, 27 years after it was decimated by a cataclysmic disaster…
Hydravision, developing games for the WII, PSP, Xbox 360, PSP and NDS, has signed a partnership with FremantleMedia Enterprises to produce the new X-Factor game, scheduled for launch during 2010.
Animation:
Planet Nemo, the creator of BALI, continues its international development with the broadcasting of its cartoon series in Japan on the NHK channel.
Ankama, produces Wakfu, a cartoon series shown on the France 3 TV channel.
Cinema and audiovisual:
30 companies providing production and post-production services, 600 technicians and actors,
The CRRAV, France’s 3rd biggest regional fund for subsidising audiovisual productions, invests 3 million euros every year to fund 60 films, including the recent box office hits:
‘The Diving Bell and the Butterfly’, two Golden Globes Awards and an Oscar nomination in 2008; ‘Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis’, n°1 hit at the French box office (over 25 million entries in Europe!);
‘Welcome’, ‘Flandres’ (Grand Prix du jury Cannes 2006)…
HUMAN RESSOURCES
Qualified personnel at the cutting edge innovation and new technologies.
1,000 students graduate each year in the Lille area with qualifications in imagery
13 different educational courses available in Lille (Pôle IIID, ESAAT, Le Fresnoy…) and Valenciennes (SupinfoCom, SupinfoGame…)
THE IMAGERY CLUSTER IN THE NORD-PAS DE CALAIS REGION
The ambition: to produce differently, quicker and more economically through innovation, for the cinema, audiovisual, video games and virtual world industries.
Created in July 2009, the Nord-Pas de Calais Imagery cluster seeks to establish strong partnerships with its Belgian neighbours (Walloon and Flemish), and with other European regions and selected partners from North America and India.
A well-structured sector:
Game In groups together the regional and Euro-regional companies from the video games industry - an association that represents 24 companies employing 600 people and with sales of 160 million euros.
Noranim groups together producers of television series and short films, schools, studios and festivals. Over the last 5 years this association, which employs a total of 150 people, has produced over 100 films.
ASPAN, the Association of Audiovisual Producers in the Nord-Pas de Calais Region is a group of 12 production companies established in the region.
THE "PLAINE IMAGES"
The "Plaine Images’ is a thriving new site
Since the start of 2010, the site is now home to 600 employees.
4.5 hectares, entirely dedicated to the Imagery sector
20,000 sq. mtrs. of new office space still to be built, incorporating ‘Fibre to the User’ (FTTU) technology
A bespoke service to accompany your new business: an incubator and a 4,000 sq. mtr. corporate hotel (opening 2011)
‘Plaine Images development’, a service and expertise centre, helping companies from the Imagery and Audiovisual sector with their development and their search for partners
The 'Plaine Images’ is located in an urban rehabilitation zone (ZFU), enabling companies to benefit from certain financial advantages until December 31st 2011.
