The new French-Swiss animated cartoon ‘Max and Co’ will be screened in France on February 13th, 2008.

We had the pleasure to know that the special effects team used Autopano Pro to stitch some of the movie sets, like backgrounds:

Apple Mac Pro computers with Intel bi-xeon double-core processors were used to produce the movie’s special effects, running Mac OS or Windows depending on the tasks.

Find out more about Max and Co and watch its preview on the movie’s website.

Young photographer Renan Astier, with Alain Laurenceau and François Jannin, performed for the French National Assembly a panoramic view intended for the media. The 110 x 70 cm photo has also been offered to the 577 MPs.

The shots were taken with 3 Canon EOS 5D digital reflex cameras, each one equipped with a 16-35 mm lens, then a 14 mm one. Afterwards, the pictures were stitched with Autopano Pro, ‘a French software that works very well’, explains French magazine Réponses Photo, which dedicates a 4-page article to this stitching in its January 2008 issue (n°190).

‘It is a photo for History’, pursues the magazine, a photo that required however a huge organization: all MPs had to be there (the shots were taken on the day of a major governmental speech), protocol had to be respected (a photographer cannot stand behind the Assembly president, hence a distant trigger was set up), and exposure variations due to the clouds had to be corrected (the Palais Bourbon, which hosts the Assembly, is covered with a big sun lounge).

A prestigious picture for Autopano Pro!