Curriculum vitae

Gilles Tran

Agronomy engineer
Digital artist since 1993
Specialised in 3D modelling and rendering.
Autodidact
Member of the Persistence of Vision Technical Assistance Group

Web

2000-present

Personal online gallery Oyonale features several hundreds of pictures created since 1993, many of them being part of a perpetual work in progress called The book of beginnings that mixes digital art and unfinished short stories in both French and English. The gallery also contains experimental web-based works including several textual and graphic generators, as well as various tools, tutorials and resources for 3D artists.

1995-2000

Personal online gallery hosted at the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel
In addition to his personal website, Gilles Tran's artwork is featured on a large number of personal and commercial websites, including Saatchi-gallery.co.uk, raph.com, zazzle.com, povray.org, wikipedia.com among others and in various academic papers and training courses.

Other projects

2004

Infinite spire and fallen headstones, architectural renderings created for a design proposal by Brian McConnell (USA) for the World Trade Center Memorial in New York City.

2001-2002

Reach for the stars, artwork created in collaboration with Jaime Vives Piqueres (Spain), rendered in space in April 2002 on board of the International Space Station by astronaut Mark Shuttleworth (South Africa).

1998

Grève: installation artwork with Dominique de Bardonnèche and other artists.

Conferences

Presentation, Salon international du livre et de la presse (International book and press fair), Geneva, May 1998
De la génétique cuniculicole à l?image de synthèse 3D (From rabbit genetics to computer generated images), Forum des Interacteurs, Novembre 1998, Echirolles, France
Presentation, INRIA, July 1997, Grenoble, France

Exhibition history

2007

The inner garden - Noi viên, Gallery Mai, January 31 to February 8, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

2003

Peaux de vaches et autres artistes (Cow hides and other artists), March 3 to April 4, Marche en Famenne, Belgium

2001

Galerie Connectik, Lyon, France

1998

Galerie 147, INRA, Paris, France

1997

Digipainters ?97, Rome, Italy

Exposition Art & Science, Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France

1996

2e Salon des Agro-exposants, Paris, France

1995

1er Salon des Agro-exposants, Paris, France

Published works and interviews

2009

Cover of the French magazine Lyon Capitale, February 2009

2008

Cover of the scientific publication INRA Productions Animales Volume 21, n°1

2007

Image "An Idol" used in the movie "Hero" by Bruno Merle.
Various Vietnamese magazines and newspapers including Thanh Niên, The Thao, Tuoi Tre and Vietnam News. Interview for the HTV 7 television channel at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

2006

Interview and image in Thanh Niên (Youth, August 30), Viêt Nam

2005

Interview and portfolio in Micro Photo Vidéo (issue n°5), France.
Interview and portfolio in The123D.com
Images featured in Digital Design of Nature: Computer Generated Plants and Organics, by Oliver Deussen, Bernt Lintermann, Springer, Germany

2004

Cover and small portfolio in 3D World (issue n°47), UK
Cover and article in Informatik Spektrum (27/1), Germany

2003

Images featured in Home Computer (issues n°10 and 12), Russia.
Images featured in Creative Live (Sept/Oct/Nov), Germany
Images featured in The Complete Guide to Digital Illustration, by Steve Caplin, Adam Banks, Nigel Holmes, The Ilex Press Ltd, UK
Images featured in Computergenerierte Pflanzen: Technik Und Design Digitaler Pflanzenwelten, by Oliver Deussen, Springer, Germany
Cover image for In the eye of time, CD album by Vox-Tempus, USA

2002

Interview and cover image in Studio Multimédia (issue n°41), France.
Interview and portfolio in Design Graphics (issue n°85, August), Australia
Cover image for Tables de Composition et de valeur nutritionnelle des matières premières destinées aux animaux d?élevage, by Daniel Sauvant, Jean-Marc Pérez and Gilles Tran, INRA Editions, France (also for the English, Spanish and Chinese editions).

2000

Image featured in GW Graphic World (issue n°5), Japan.
Cover image for Congélation et qualité de la viande, by Claude Génot, INRA Editions, France

1999

Interview in Le Monde (8 juin 1999), France

1997

Image featured in Computer Grafica, Italy.

1994

Cover image for Masternova, continuing education course in bioengineering and agro-industry, France.

Awards

2006

Wikipedia Picture of the Day, August 2

2004

Inducted into the Persistence of Vision Raytracer Hall of Fame (14 images)

2001

Winner of the Internet Raytracing Competition, November-December round "Spirit of Asia"
Winner of the Internet Raytracing Competition, November, March-April round "Fortress"

2000

Winner of the Internet Raytracing Competition, November-December round "Contrast"
Winner of the Internet Raytracing Competition, November, March-April round "City"

1999

Winner of the Internet Raytracing Competition, November-December round "Gardens"

Miscellaneous

Gilles Tran's artwork was commented in the following academic papers:

Dorin, A., Beyond Morphogenesis: enhancing synthetic trees through death, decay and the Weasel Test, in Third Iteration: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Generative Systems in the Electronic Arts, Innocent, Brown, McCormack, Mcilwain (eds) CEMA, Melbourne, Dec. 2005, pp 119-128. (Full paper)
Shultz, P. Affordances of Computer art, Media History and Theory, fall 2005, Art Center College of Design. (Full paper)
Swinn, Gaye. Database as art in the age of the virtual camera, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 223, Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Game research and development table of contents, Perth, Australia, pp 249 ? 253. (Full paper)
Figures du grapheïn: arts plastiques, littérature, musique‎. Empreinte esthétique et conceptuelle des structures programmées en images de synthèse: « Quand le langage présuppose l'image » de Véronique Bourgoin. Ouvrage dirigé par Bruno Duborgel, Université Jean Monnet-Saint-Etienne. Centre interdisciplinaire d'études et de recherches sur l'expression contemporaine - Writing in art - 2000 - 362 pages

Tools

Persistence of Vision Ray-tracer
Cinema 4D
finalRender
Poser
Wings 3D
Rhino 3D