TECH FLOW 2026
An opening title sequence for Tech Flow 2026: a glowing idea travels through
a topographic world to express three themes: Choose, Transform, Grow.
Tech Flow is the annual meeting point for decision-makers, entrepreneurs, startups and innovation players in Centre-Val de Loire. For the 2026 edition, held on 13 October at the MAME in Tours, I designed and produced the opening title sequence: a short film that welcomes the audience, sets the tone of the day and introduces its three themes.
The challenge
An event opening has to do a lot in very little time. It has to:
Set out the three themes of the edition: Choose, Transform, Grow.
Launch and catch the audience's attention with a strong visual proposal.
Build excitement for the day's programme.
Extend Tech Flow's visibility online before, during and after the event, through shares of the film.
The idea: a quest toward innovation
The three themes echo any entrepreneurial journey, where the unknown is both the challenge and the fuel.
Tech Flow isn't a destination but a stopover: a place to regain your bearings, recharge, and set off again.
So the film is a short journey, a symbolic metaphor for the flow of the quest for innovation. We follow an idea, embodied by a glowing sphere of light, as it wanders through an unknown, abstract world.
A visual universe rooted in the event's identity
I wanted to blend technology and poetry. I took Tech Flow's own graphic language, its topographic contour lines, and gave it perspective. The flat lines rise into terrain, and the landscape becomes the world our light travels through.
The visual direction rests on four ideas: volume and perspective, play of light, abstract forms and dynamic compositions, and "flow" as an allusion to path and travel. The palette stays luminous, with solar accents against deep blues.
Behind the render
The forms in the "Choose" sequence aren't placed by hand. I built them procedurally with Geometry Nodes in Blender. A collection of shapes is instanced along a spiral curve, each instance aligned to the curve's tangent and normal, then randomly rotated for variety. A proximity effector tied to the sphere of light drives the scale of each shape, so the forms react as the light passes close to them. The setup can be art-directed and reworked quickly, which was essential on a tight schedule. I also used geometry nodes to create the digital tree at the end. The goal was to use the grid of a simple mesh (a cut-out plane) to achieve this short-circuit-like design.
The process
The storyboard locks the story, so the film never loses its way. It brings together the visual storytelling and helps client understand where we're headed.
Look development locks the visual universe, so we know what to expect in the final render.
Animatic locks the rhythm, so timing and sound are right before rendering.
Final edit is left with a single job: making it polished and beautiful.
This is how I can guarantee that the creative is up to the expectations and that the mission is complete.
The result
The sequence opened Tech Flow 2026 on 13 October at the MAME in Tours, in front of around 200 attendees from the region’s innovation community. As a partner of the event, I then took the stage to introduce the work to the audience. The response was warm, from attendees and organisers alike, and the film set the tone for the day it was made to open.
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Role: Art Direction & 3D Animation
Music: Maxime Singer ©
A partnership with Digital Loire Valley
Format: Opening Title Sequence