Philippe Segard
- Additional Crew
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Production Manager
Philippe Segard started his career in the entertainment industry as
Assistant Director, after he obtained a High School Degree in Film/TV
production (DESRA, year 1986, in Paris, France). He notably worked on
the French-American TV series "Crossbow" aka William Tell (first
season, 1987), that aired on The Family Channel and France 3. He also
worked on several quality TV films that were broadcasted on ARTE TV
(formerly "La 7"): Electre (1987), Les Enfants Tanner (1990), La Fable
des Continents (1991), Hotel du Parc (1992). He also participated in
the production of "Le Moulin de Daudet", a French movie directed by
Samy Pavel and released in 1992. At the same time, he was involved in
the creation of several TV Networks as Production Manager: in Morocco
("2M International" - 1989-1990) and in France ("Canal J" - 1991; "La
Cinq" - 1992; "Canal Assemblee Nationale" - 1993-1994). With the advent
of digital era, he decided to explore the future of media: he got a
certificate in Multimedia Project Management (Novocom, year 1996); then
he went in Montreal to attend the MIM (Multimedia International Market,
1996) and to take part of the INET'96, the annual congress of the
Internet Society Members, as volontary collaborator for the event
organiser, the CRIM (Centre de recherche informatique de Montreal). He
took the opportunity to visit Videotron, the canadian
telecommunications company, that was experimenting some Interactive TV
programs on his cable television network: in conclusion, this trial
testified that true interactive programs (choice of camera angles,
additional information during live sport events...) were useless for
the audience on the long-term, and that the value addition was much
more about running innovative interactive services such as video on
demand, bank account access, etc. After attending the first "Etats
Generaux de l'Ecriture Interactive" (Paris, 1996), a round table talks
about Interactive Writing, Philippe Segard realized that the Video Game
industry was actually THE sector dealing with the most sophisticated
interactive programs, and making true business with that stuff. In the
late 1996, he joined the headquarters of the video game publisher
Mindscape UK, in Brighton, to contribute to the French release of few
titles (batch of Christmas releases), in contact with the French
Marketing offices in Rennes. In 1997, he came back to France to join
Virtual Studio, in Paris (a video game studio created in the
continuation of the French publisher Loriciel) as Project Manager. It
was the new era of 3D games, with the 32 bit consoles generation, and
the studios were looking for experienced managers who could be able to
deal with a far more complex video game production (innovative content,
new process, bigger team, higher cost). He produced "L'Amerzone", an
innovative adventure game (PC), from the universe and story of the
comic book's author Benoit Sokal. In 1999, he joined Atari in Lyon
(formerly Infogrames) to launch the production of the first 3D Tintin
video game (PS1), based on the comics series created by Herge. In 2000,
he joined Kalisto-Paris (formerly Mindscape-Bordeaux and Atreid
Concept) to lead the Game Design Production of "New York Race", a
futuristic racing car game (PS2) based on the movie "The Fifth Element"
by Luc Besson. In 2004, he created the Game Design and Dialogues of the
PC adventure game "L'Emerillon : Enquete a la cour d'Alienor
d'Aquitaine" (Monkey Island-like), published by Nemopolis. In 2005, he
joined OUAT Entertainment, in Angouleme-France, as Senior Producer, to
work on multiple innovative projects (Interactive DVD, Virtual
World...). He also produced the 3D action-platform game (PC/PS2/NDS)
based on the French animated feature film "Kirikou and the wild beast",
directed by Michel Ocelot. In 2008, he worked for Black-Sheep Studio as
Senior Producer, on a fashion designer game for girls, "Jeune Styliste
Paris" (NDS), published by Ubisoft & Carre Multimedia. In 2009, he
worked as Creative Manager for Nokinomo, an Interactive Design Agency,
to notably implement the project of an Interactive Banner for the Van
Cleef & Arpels' shop in Milan, Italy. Since 1998, Philippe Segard is
also involved in the Education field as a Visiting Faculty for many
organizations, such as the CNAM-Paris (ENJMIN), Supinfogame
(Valenciennes), Institut International du Multimedia (Paris), Ina,
Strate College, etc. He also wrote an article in the Magazine Ecarts
2001 about "the texts in the adventure video games", and he is the
author of 3 comic books ("Echec & Automates" series, published by
Carabas Editions; Prix Coup de coeur au salon de Lyon 2005).