The gang at C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures, a new shop in Toronto doing digital animation and effects for film and tv, are currently working on the effects for the feature film Johnny Mnemonic. c.o.r…

Goin’ Cuckoo is the latest cartoon from Rick Dolishny. As director/animator/producer, Dolishny’s challenge was to write an enchanting story, and specifically design a procedure to output the computer-generated images to 35mm film rather than video….

Douglas Morris of Toronto’s Image Group describes the challenge of designing an animation show opening for a ‘one time’ event that delivers network production value – only five days after concept approval….

Director Chris Delaney and designer John Delaney of Vancouver animation shop Delaney and Friends Productions have been compositing away over hot cels and digital data on Jackpot Super 7 tv commercials for Western Canada Lottery Corporation out of Calgary-based Parallel Strategies….

The producers at Richmond, b.c.-based Waterfront Video Productions, Paul and Robin Winskell and Gerry O’Day, added another dimension, or two, to the net-surfing host of their magazine-style animation series pilot, The Animators….

Toronto-based TOPIX Computer Graphics and Animation recently completed the second in a pool of three spots for McCann-Erickson and client Nestle promoting Nescafe Instant specialty coffees. The deceptively casual pool juxtaposes torn-out colored heads of staid-looking folk with groovier sharp-cut black-and-white…

Winnipeg’s critically acclaimed (read: ton-o’-awards) animator Richard Condie, who tackled nuclear war/sawing addiction in The Big Snit, is now tackling computer animation, which may well prove addictive for him now that he’s Getting Started….

The Animation House is looking forward to a full and exciting summer, with projects from as far away as Germany, Mexico and South America. The bulk of these commercials employ classical animation, but there are a couple that will require some…

Producer Adam Shaheen explains how he and partner/fellow reality-warper creative director Bruce Alcock of Toronto animation/illustration and design house Cuppa Coffee wielded their media-blender ways on FrenchKiss, a francophone music/culture program on MuchMusic. The pair worked with Michael Heydon of Much,…

Paul Patrick Quinn describes the telco mission given the crew at Vancouver special effects shop Northwest Imaging & FX….

A toronto company hopes its technology will enhance the movie-going experience and whet consumers’ appetites to see more films in the cinema….

Spooner directs traffic for Edmonton police…