The mountain seems to be everywhere: towering over the old city, reflected off the side of a car, even sandwiched between two buildings. Except this is downtown Montreal and that is the legendary Matterhorn not Mount Royal….

In the world of 3D animation, the century’s turn is particularly poignant. Most of the techniques pioneered in the field have come only in the last four years and therefore will more easily fit in as innovations of the 2000s than…

Dilemma: The script calls for a pivotal scene with star Sharon Stone under San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. But you are filming in Vancouver. Do you swallow the expense of flying cast and crew to Frisco for a mere eight shots,…

Toronto-based Command Post/toybox has been building a reputation in Hollywood as a creator of top-line visual effects. This, in turn, led the company to open an office in l.a. last year to help streamline client liaisons….

Ever since TOPIX/Mad Dog finished posting a 14-spot campaign for Pepsi in Mexico last year, work has been streaming out of that country to T/MD’s Toronto offices….

Let’s just say Rainmaker is doing some shebang on The Whole Shebang….

Toronto post and duplication stalwart Creative Post is undergoing an expansion that has seen the 13-year-old shop open a new facility in Ottawa to focus on digital services, along with plans to add 3,000 square feet to its Toronto operation within…

Montreal-based Softimage, a subsidiary of production technology giant Avid, will release its new 3D animation package, code-named Sumatra, at the end of March….

* II addresses digital video compatibility…

The National Film Board will begin offering ‘cinema on demand’ – video streamed in realtime over the Internet – under a project called CineRoute….

Canada has nine titles in the Sundance Film Festival 2000, running Jan. 20-30. As usual, Canada is well represented in the Native Forum program, but the festival’s official selections also include several Canadian productions in other notable categories at this showcase…

Avid has begun shipments of the final versions of its Media Illusion and Matador. The Tewksbury, Mass.-based technology company says that while it will no longer continue development, it will continue to sell, support and maintain both lines….