Scinema is a french YouTube channel about science + cinema.

I make videos about science by using the world of cinema as a hook. How strong the wind has to be in order to make Mary Poppins fly? Is 4K really useful for movies? How to simulate water in VFX? What is the science behind humor? That kind of stuff.

Scinema has over 120 000 subscribers, attracted a little bit over a million views, won the “Science popularization” award at the Frames Video Web Festival 2018 in France and was chosen by Arte and Youtube France to be featured on the “Learning” tab of Youtube.

The logic of humor

No english subs yet, sorry!

This video gives an overview of the peculiar scientific field around humor, a field desperate to find some logic explanation behind it. The second part of the video focuses on a even more peculiar phenomenon: cringe comedy. And for that, I use the quintessential show in this matter: The Office.

I was lucky enough to be featured in the french magazine Télérama with a nice article about the video.

Monsters & energy

English subs are available on this one!

What kind of monster would use children for their energy industry? Well… a Pixar monster actually. This video analyzes how the monsters from Monsters, Inc. would convert children’s screams into electricity.

Behind the scenes (the title sequence)

As you may have noticed I reanimated the Monsters Inc’s title sequence on the film. Here is a video comparing the two sequences.

Everything is animated with After Effects, with a custom expression system for generating the look of each doors, leveraging master properties.

A demo workflow for working with the doors

Demo for the snake rig (left) and compositing details for a few shots (right)

Stills and gifs taken from the video

A few press articles covered it at the time and it was a nice first feature in Télérama for Scinéma!