Scientific and technical visual communication for industry

Making the complex obvious.

Your products, processes and innovations rely on a technical complexity that your clients, teams or partners don’t grasp. We make it understandable — to sell, train, convince and decide.

We don’t start from a medium, but from your challenge. Depending on the problem, the answer is a 3D animation, a virtual reality experience or a body of illustrations. The right tool, not the usual one.

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A process that took years of R&D can be sold, transferred or financed in a matter of minutes — provided it’s understood. The obstacle is almost never the quality of the technology. It’s the gap between what you know and what the other person perceives. Our job is to close that gap.

What we solve:

Cinq problèmes, cinq réponses visuelles.

Each situation below corresponds to projects actually carried out for industrial clients. Recognize yours.

Sell

Help a buyer understand a technical product or process

Your offer relies on an innovation that is invisible or hard to grasp. Your sales teams spend too much time explaining it, and the buyer decides without having understood. We turn the process into an immediate visual demonstration that shows what happens where the eye sees nothing.

ITOPP — contactless equipment sterilization using high pulsed power. Nof Metal Coatings — immersive 360° video on protective metal coatings (drag with your mouse). CERAVER (spinal implants).

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  • Ceraver
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Train

Prepare critical operations and reduce risk

Some interventions leave no room for error, and the real environment is inaccessible, dangerous or costly to mobilize. We recreate the environment identically to prepare and rehearse every action before the real intervention.

North American nuclear operator — reactor-core maintenance training: hyper-realistic reproduction, every operation located and detailed, complemented by a virtual reality walkthrough simulating component disassembly ahead of the intervention. Digirail — training drivers for high-stress situations (obstacles, unexpected events).

  • Maintenance operations on a nuclear reactor core (excerpt)
  • Application VR de formation Maintenance. (extrait)
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Fund

Showcasing an innovation to investors or partners

A breakthrough technology won’t get funded if it can’t be understood in a few minutes. In front of an investor, clarity matters as much as performance. We turn the technology into a story, pitched at exactly the right level for the target audience.

Lifineo — transmitting wifi through light, a film designed for an investor search. Also: Sweetch Energy (electricity from osmosis), Daum laboratory (material characterization in ultra-high vacuum, in virtual reality).

  • Sublime Energie
  • Lifineo
  • Sweetch Energy

Show

Make a very large-scale site or process legible

A site spanning several hectares across multiple buildings can’t be understood through a visit or a plan. We reduce it to its logic: not the reality of the walls, but the steps and objectives of the process, in a smooth journey.

Sanofi — three virtual factories (logistics, manufacturing, production), each reimagined to reveal its process step by step. Also: ID Logistics (3D reconstruction of a sorting site, from high volume to custom orders). Fukushima — subsurface ground-freezing project. Image produced for the magazine press.

  • Sanofi — virtual factories
  • ID Logistics
  • Presentation of the project to freeze the subsoil at Fukushima

Convince

Win over non-expert stakeholders

Elected officials, local residents, the general public, funders: decisions depend on people who don’t share your technical language. Rejection more often comes from a misunderstanding than from a real disagreement. We make the subject accessible without betraying it.

Atlantic’eau — water treatment tackling molecules that conventional processes can’t filter, explained in council meetings and public forums. Also: Estuaire Project, Nantes Université (pooling residual industrial energy). ANDRA — 100+ illustrations produced for the French national radioactive waste management agency.

  • Atlantic'eau
  • Estuaire project
  • About a hundred illustrations for ANDRA
Proof through longevity

Major accounts that keep coming back.

Andra

Marché reconduit — 6 ans

The French national radioactive waste management agency. Contract won through a tender, then renewed for a second three-year cycle. We cover the entire chain: internal technical documentation, communication to the public and elected officials, institutional reports, on-site education. Six years, on one of the most sensitive subjects there is.

Sanofi

Collaboration pluriannuelle — site après site

A collaboration that grows year after year, each project leading to the next: virtual factories, showroom, 3D animated films, 3D tours of R&D buildings, making vaccination accessible in two versions (general public and researchers), viral-vector therapeutic vaccines, illustrations.

Nordic Pharma

10 years of collaboration.

Nordic Pharma, a subsidiary of the Nordic Pharma group, is a pharmaceutical company that has trusted us for over ten years. Throughout this collaboration, we have designed touchscreen applications for their injectors, used by their sales teams, 3D animated films for several of their products, scientific illustrations, posters, as well as a website available in ten languages, built as an interactive video instruction guide for one of their products.

Groupe Berkem

6 years of collaboration

Groupe Berkem, a player in the chemical industry, has trusted us for over six years to produce their 3D animated films, exhibition stand displays, and an 11-episode YouTube series.

What these four relationships prove: when a major account entrusts us with its technical communication, it doesn’t hand over just one part — and it comes back. A single partner who already knows the subject, rather than several agencies to brief and coordinate.

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They trust us.

Since 2012, industrial companies and institutions have entrusted us with their most technical subjects.

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Why Imascience

Rigor before the image.

Extreme subjects, familiar ground

Since 2012 we've handled the most technical subjects, from nuclear reactors to viral vectors. However specialized, an industrial process is familiar ground for us. An accurate image starts with an exact understanding.

The medium serving the stakes

3D animation, virtual reality, illustration, touchscreen application: we choose the medium to fit the problem. From a single subject, we give you the material to feed every support you need — from your website to social media, prepress and applications.

Confidentiality as a framework

The documents you entrust to us stay confidential. For years we've worked under non-disclosure agreements, on sensitive subjects, for organizations that would accept nothing less.

CII accreditation

Your project may be partially funded by the CII (French innovation tax credit).

Imascience holds the CII (French innovation tax credit) accreditation, issued by the ministry responsible for Research. If your project qualifies as an innovation initiative, the expenses you entrust to us may be eligible for the CII. From our very first conversation, we let you know whether your project qualifies.

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Let’s talk about your challenge.

Tell us what you need to get across, and to whom. We’ll tell you how to make it obvious. And whether we’re the right partner to do it.

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The questions you’re asking yourself.

Our work is highly technical: will you really understand it?

This has been our ground since 2012: nuclear reactors, chemical processes, heat exchangers, viral vectors. Every project starts by immersing ourselves in your documentation and talking with your experts, and nothing is released without their validation. An accurate image starts with an exact understanding.

Our processes are trade secrets: what guarantees do you provide?

We've worked under NDA for years, for players who would tolerate nothing less. Your documents don't circulate, and published references can be anonymized. Every IMASCIENCE project is produced in-house. No leaks possible.

Why a 3D animation rather than an on-site shoot?

Because most of what you need to show is invisible: the inside of a machine, a physical phenomenon, an entire process seen in its logic. 3D shows what a camera can't film, without stopping production or opening a sensitive area, and the film evolves with your product instead of having to be reshot.

How much of my team's time will this take?

Little, and at precise moments. We start from what already exists (CAD drawings, diagrams, technical documentation) and come back to your experts at short milestones: scoping, script, key images, final render. Between those milestones, we move forward on our own. Your engineers validate; they don't produce.

What budget should we plan for, and how do we make the investment pay off?

The budget depends on length, level of detail and the chosen medium: we quote it after an initial conversation, with no commitment. The return comes from reuse: the same film serves at trade shows, in sales meetings, on your website and in internal training, for years. And if your project is part of an innovation effort, our CII (French innovation tax credit) accreditation can fund part of it.