In further detail, how did you design Middle Age Paris?

I worked on the project for three years. I wanted to be able to restore the city’s vision and understand it as accurately as possible. The film, based on historical sources, allows us to visit all those places where History was made but on which we never had a whole realistic representation at yet. The walk/visit is led by an English or French commentary, which tells us the part those places and buildings played, as would naturally do a guide.

For the research, I collected a lot of reproductions and paintings I found in museums, libraries, and books. Then, the discovery of an archeological Paris map from 1550 made everything possible. I just had to modelize the buildings as they were depicted on the paintings. In order to be the more realistic as possible, I made all the textures from walls, buildings fronts and roofs photos. Building after building, street after street, and the medieval city appears… you can see some representations I used on this page. Then, for the unknown parts of the city, we completed them with historians’ researches, horse-sense and a bit of imagination. This is still an artistic version, but which was approved by a lot of specialists, because, I’m not making anything up at last. I use researches from scholars who worked on it before me but didn’t have 3D tools to make it real.