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Video Innovations: Tic Tac Toon opens doors to animators: Resolution independent, 100% vector-based
Montreal: Tic Tac Toon is the latest digital cartoon production software to be introduced to the booming international animation market. Its promoters claim various features of the system 3D and multiplane camera movement capabilities, and a resolution-independent production and compositing…
Feature biz faces tough choices
Montreal: Telefilm Canada’s feature film policies are under renewed criticism from industry sources, but the federal funding agency says it will hold its present course of promoting what it calls ‘diversity and critical mass.’…
NFB move just rumor
Reports that the National Film Board’s English headquarters in Montreal will be dismantled and relocated to Toronto are greatly exaggerated, says nfb English Program director general Barbara Janes….
Industry criticizes Juneau report tax idea
Reported proposals that the cbc be funded with contributions from a telecommunications tax have generally met with disfavor among representatives of the industries concerned….
U.S. signal block: Violence solution sought
Montreal: CRTC chairman Keith Spicer has fired the latest salvo in the ongoing dispute over violence in u.s. children’s tv programming….
Video Innovations: You too can blow up a planet
The pop culture prophets have spoken of it for years now the 500-channel universe and the massive scramble for programming. As broadcasting morphs into narrowcasting, Ken Nickerson, director of technology at Microsoft Canada, predicts the emergence of virtually millions of…
Correction
The Credo Entertainment/Atlantis Communications series My Life as A Dog was the first series produced in Manitoba, not Nelvana/Great North Productions’ Jake and the Kid as stated in the Jan. 15 p. 1 story, ‘1995 holds its own.’ As well, Lyddie,…
Editorial: Tired of waiting
Attention to the new specialty tv applicants has been eclipsed by the latest flurry of plot twists in the ongoing broadcasting battles the Juneau study directed tax proposal for the Telefilm/nfb/cbc pot, long queues in the appeals court lineup plus…
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Video Innovations: Motion Works, Crescent link for interactive CD-ROM movie
Vancouver: In the midst of a shopping spree in which Vancouver’s Motion Works is buying smaller media companies, the controversial cd-rom producer has forged a joint venture with Crescent Entertainment, a West Coast film company….
B.C. studio space shortage critical
Vancouver: cd-rom producer John McLean wants to shoot the live action for his current us$3.5 million project in Vancouver but can’t find the studio space he requires. And he’s not alone: demand for production facilities here is outstripping capacity….
Genie winners
Montreal: Two coproduced movies, Robert Lepage’s Le Confessionnal and Mort Ransen’s Margaret’s Museum completely dominated the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television’s Genie Awards, but the acct’s two tv shows received negative reviews….
Video Innovations: Interactivities: Kids put content first
The following is an expanded version of a presentation made at an Alliance for Children and Television seminar on interactive media for children, by Bill Sweetman, the idea guy at Electric Eye Multimedia, Toronto, a multimedia consulting company dedicated to helping…
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