Saïdou Bernabé

CEO
PARALLEL 14

Bio
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Bio:

Saïdou Bernabé is a VFX Supervisor with 15 years of experience in 3D animation and Visual effects.

He’s been part of some acclaimed feature films such as Underworld, Despicable Me, John Carter or The Hobbit, from France, Ireland, United Kingdom to New Zealand. Today, Saïdou is the co-founder of PARALLEL 14, the first Caribbean 3D animation, Visual Effects and Video game Academy.

The Academy is currently part of a cooperation program for students exchange with Trinidad and Tobago.

Saïdou is also part of an Animation Studio Cluster with Saint-Lucia, Jamaica and Trinidad.

PARALLEL 14 is currently based in Martinique and plan to expand beyond.

Saïdou’s expertise goes from art, digital communication, post-production to CGI and is reinforced by a Caribbean and International network. Those are his assets to the structuration and empowerment of the Cultural and Creative industries throughout the Caribbean Region.

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Talk Title:

Metaverse an opportunity for the caribbean

Talk Description :

I’m used to say that with a good internet connexion, and the creativity we have, anything is possible.

In the field of 3D animation the great technology improvements coming with web3 and metaverse is a real opportunity to bring 3D knowledge to a wide range of people from the caribbean and any developing countries, allowing them to create remotely, collaboratively and earn from their work.

There’s definitely a need to expand those trends to these regions as part of the countries economical development.