The Shack we know in the Canadian commercial production industry isn’t an NBA star. That being said, Shack, aka Generator Films director Steve Shackleton, did have the opportunity to go one-on-one with Toronto Raptor Morris Peterson during a three-day ad shoot…

Who’s gone where? From where? And when? As the Revolving Doors spin, we put the spotlight on spot-makers on-the-move……

Post-production and its powers are personified in this column. We’ll cover new techniques, technologies and the creative personnel and companies giving them vibrant visual life….

Toronto stop-motion animation company Quack Quack Animation has been freelancing for other production houses since 1994, but Quack Quack animator/director Philip Marcus says the time has come for the shop to take on commercial and long-form projects on its own.
Marcus, who has worked in stop-motion professionally for 15 years, acknowledges that while there may be few competitors in the stop-motion medium, there are also few stop-motion or claymation spots being produced. This doesn’t seem to faze him, however.

The Atlantic Film Festival, this year running Sept. 14-22 in Halifax, has confirmed that Canada, Spain and Latin America will be the focus of its Strategic Partners conference. …

Go east, young men. …

Toronto’s Cuppa Coffee Animation has launched a new broadcast design department to handle what has become a key portion of the company’s business. …

There’s a hippo in the bathtub at Halifax’s Cage Digital, but this one won’t be slipping down the drain out of sight of Canadian children. Cage president and CEO Jan-Peter De Souza assures they’ll know all about The Hippo Tub Co. come fall.
The Hippo Tub Co., a 3D animated kids show to air on CBC, coproduced by Cage and Evening Sky of L.A., is based on the popular children’s album by Canadian crooner Anne Murray.

IF competition really spurs the industry to produce the best possible product, then commercial production companies in the Toronto market had better be churning out award-winning work with every board coming over the fax machine. As if the batch of new,…

The focus of this regular section is on agencies in Canada. Looking for agency business strategies and creative teams’ secret weapons? We tell all in Ad Missions….

The word ‘swagger’ suggests a relaxed but cocky, self-confident walk. It therefore seems a fitting moniker for the new company said to be the creative force behind the work being done at Toronto’s Barkinhotstudios. …

Apple Box Productions has some new blood in its Toronto, Vancouver and Edmonton offices to pump up its very healthy Canada-wide heart. The company has signed on one new director, welcomed back another, convinced a third to exclusive representation and added…