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Warner to open game studio in Montreal
Chalk up another one for the increasingly game-happy city as tax credits, but mostly the talent, pull another giant north
Coproduction still a foreign term to interactive players
Rules for the new $350 million Canada Media Fund will be unveiled April 1 and interactive hubs like Huminah Huminah Animation are hoping they can apply.
Looking back on Vancouver, ahead to London
Alon Marcovici insists he is not a conspiracy theorist, but even he can hardly believe how perfectly Vancouver 2010 unfolded for the Olympic Broadcast Media Consortium. A gold-medal game against the Americans, with Sid the Kid stuffing in the OT winner? It sounds scripted.
Take down
Sony is putting out the word that downloading is a danger, and Canada is one target firmly in its sights. Cue the arrival of Frances Seghers
Look to former TV execs for funding
A chronic shortage of early-stage angel and venture capital investment in Canadian digital content has produced a novel source of financing to get new innovations off the ground: former top TV executives.
Online beats TV, says study
Canadians spent more time clicking than flipping channels for the first time last quarter
Industry fuels 3D research
Companies and government pour cash into Sheridan, U of Waterloo
Tribeca to screen Trotsky
Festival darling one of 10 films to be screened at New York fest and via video-on-demand
Game animation tool cuts rendering time to seconds
What if you cut rendering time to almost… nothing? Well, it looks like Manchester, UK-based TT Animation has found a way to slash what would have taken 14 minutes to a mere six seconds. It almost sounds too good to be true, but the end result – a preschool animated series – speaks for itself. And it was made possible by using video game technology.
3 things you may not know about… Ken Locker
Ken Locker, SVP, digital media for Cookie Jar Entertainment
Reassurances and warnings at Prime Time
Reassurances and warnings about the digital era greeted attendees at last month’s Prime Time in Ottawa conference, as kick-off speaker Brent Lowe-Bernie delivered the message that ‘The sky is not falling.’
Standardizing 3D gaming
Neil Schneider bought his first pair of 3D glasses five years ago from eBay, looking to enhance his video game experience. What started out as recreational fun turned into a passionate goal to teach the world about the joys of gaming in the third dimension.
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