Corpses, authentic crime-scene photographs and a six-foot tongue. Yup – just another day at the office for Grand Unified Theories’ founder Scott Hamilton. Hamilton, who makes his living by creating eye-catching props and special makeup designs for advertising, television, and film,…

Las Vegas, NV: To round off the ascending prominence of Canadians at natpe, the 5th annual Pitch Me! Competition, moderated by Survivor host Jeff Probst, saw Snap Media’s Dave King beat out close to 150 pitchers with Status No, a 13-part…

Tucked away near Toronto’s infamous Cherry Beach lies Performance Solutions, a physical effects house, prototyping shop and manufacturer of special effects equipment. With so much diverse activity at the company, creating physical effects for spot clients can keep things interesting for…

The Toronto Documentary Forum, a program inaugurated at last year’s Hot Docs festival has proved successful with more than 50% of the projects pitched having raised additional financing in the past eight months….

Maya 3, the flagship 3D animation and f/x software from Toronto-headquartered Alias|Wavefront, will soon be available on the Mac os x platform. a|w demonstrated this new capability at the Macworld show last month in San Francisco, with plans to ship in…

Toon Boom Technologies announced back in spring 2000 that it was teaming with Stan Lee Media to develop Web-based software for the creation of slm’s Web comics or ‘webisodes.’ Nearly one year later, the Montreal-based 2D animation software company was as…

Discreet has launched 3ds max 4, and the Montreal-headquartered systems and software developer is calling this latest release of its 3D animation, modeling and rendering solution ‘the most significant’ ever. …

Animation Canada’s Bruce Richardson helps animators find the solution that’s right for them from among the vast array of toony software packages available at his Toronto outlet….

Montreal-headquartered animation software provider Softimage, a division of Avid Technology, has released Softimage|XSI v.1.5, an update of its flagship product, and it has done so quickly – anything to get rid of the stigma of having a ‘1.0’ out there. …

Dave Geldart is cg animation supervisor at Toronto’s Spin Entertainment, which specializes in cg animation, special effects and compositing for film, television and new media….

Montreal: The Eastern Townships region of Quebec offers a rich variety of locations – from quaint 18th century villages to lunar landscapes….

Montreal: Doc producer InformAction has justly earned a reputation for original and often challenging programming, pushing a broad social-justice agenda against television’s restrictive sensibilities and formats. …