To properly give the vast Canadian television audience an impression of what it might be like to have your destiny in the hands of someone wielding a joystick, a tbwa/Chiat Day creative team, headed up by cocreative directors Jamie Way and…

After graduating from college, International Shooters director Spencer Antle set out for l.a. with dreams of making movies and a cool idea for a milk spot – the catalyst for getting into commercial directing….

The Directors Film Company is now representing the directors of France’s Premiere Heure in Canada. The acclaimed directors combined for a second place for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Advertising Festival this year. The directors include Cannes ’99 silver prize…

C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures’ coproduction of the animated series Angela Anaconda – which premiered Oct. 5 on Teletoon – is a first step in what company executives hope will be a long foray into the world of proprietary production….

*The other ‘Alliance’ unites mobile TV vendors…

Audience members attending showings of the newly released 20th Century Fox feature Fight Club will watch a nine-ton brass sculpture ball wreak havoc as it rolls from its pedestal, through a fountain and into the glass window of a cafe….

Dan Krech Productions is nearing completion of 3D work on the DreamWorks feature Joseph, the prequel to the animated box-office hit Prince of Egypt. Dan Krech says his Toronto-based animation shop is already three-quarters through completing the 106-shot assignment. Krech says…

Following last year’s successful launch of the Maya 3D animation software, Oscar nominee Alias| Wavefront has unveiled its newest animation technology, Maya Paint Effects 2.5, which for the first time allows artists to literally paint their environments using a brush on…

On Sunday, Aug. 15, Chris Robinson, director of Ottawa’s International Student Animation Festival (safo), got the kind of bad-news phone call that no one wants to receive. Barely two months before his festival was due to begin, the office he occupies…

As we enter the final 100 days of the millennium, I can’t help but reflect on the changes that I’ve experienced during my brief 30 years in the animation industry. The level of sophistication of performance and story since I began…

From the small computer screen to the large imax format, Canadian animation shops are showcasing their talent everywhere – and through a variety of wacky and weird proprietary projects for audiences of all ages….

Still in its infant stages and operating without an office or proper phone number, Toronto’s Bent Animation is starting to make a name for itself – both at home and south of the border. Earning a solid reputation based primarily on…