Jean-Marc has written several books on creating animations and the production of real-time 3D games, including Creating Interactive 3D Actors and their Worlds (Morgan Kaufman Publisher), Virtual Sets and Pre-Visualization for Games, Movies and the Web (Focal Press, Elsevier Science). He also contributed to Game Art Complete (Focal Press, Elsevier).

Jean-Marc's projects include 3D character animation and motion capture. They have ranged from a 3D interactive set design for the theater play "Cold Stone Dead Serious" at the Coleman Theater in Manhattan, and “NightHawks”, a 3D animation interacting with a large audience inside a public park. He has also collaborated on numerous scientific visualization projects, including the "Dynamic Virtual Patient’, a 3D interactive animation of the human body, the “Brain Project”, a 3D interactive animation of the brain and an interactive animation for exploring the genetic diversity of the world’s 10,000 bird species. He recently completed the design of an immersive display for the visualization of pedestrian crossings and street intersections for a project funded by the National Eye Institute (USA) and the University of Alabama (USA).

Two main factors covered in Jean-Marc's interactive work are creating a unique viewer's experience and the simulations of living environments that can be influenced by artificial intelligence systems rather than controlled. Viewers discover how to influence an eco-system inside a scene versus controlling a scene.

Virtual sets are redefining the way film directors, dancers, scientists, medical researchers, architects, TV producers and web designers can develop simulations in relationship to a real world situation. The 3D previsualization of a movie scene prior to shooting on location or a virtual visit at the agora of the antique city of Aphrodisias, Turkey, are examples of immersive virtual sets created in Jean-Marc's projects. Jean-Marc uses low-cost technologies in order to design virtual sets for games for interactive TV and for information systems created for decision makers.

Creating real-time interactions between an audience and a virtual environment becomes possible using wireless input devices, cellular phones, VR glove, sensors, robotics. JMG is interested in giving a viewer the possibility to be acknowledged by virtual actors.
JMG's installations - available for lease for museums, festivals and gallery installations - can renew the perception of screen based media in indoor spaces and urban settings. The interactive installations are designed for a wide range of audiences and spaces from giant screens to planetariums and small arrangements of flat screens.

LINKS to courses and blogs: Spatial design - Blog - Core Design - Sciviz - Recapturing life - Intro to interactive 3D - The marriage of virtual and real - Experimental video and 3D animation - From physical to virtual and back - Gaming blog.