Animation
Our collection of animated films and the world of animation in general.
Canadian Screen Awards | Watch 2 Nominated Animation Films for Free
Canada's newest entertainment prize, the Canadian Screen Awards, which honour the best in homegrown film, television and digital projects, are being broadcast this Sunday (3 March 2013) and 14 NFB projects (fourteen!) are nominated for a prize.
For those still confused about these new awards (we were), the Canadian...
International Women’s Day: Know Your History!
In honour of International Women's Day on March 8, we're pleased to present a week-long lineup of NFB films by and about women.
One of the things that makes me most proud to work here is our long-standing commitment to women. From Evelyn Lambart to Terre Nash to Alanis...
Watch Kids’ Cartoons From Around the World
Because not everyone living and growing up in Canada is exactly the same, cartoons shouldn't all be exactly the same either. This, in essence, is the idea behind the Talespinners Collection, a series of short NFB animation from the early 2000s.
Created for children aged 5 to 9, the...
Animation Tips | A Lesson in Character Design
For this blog entry I thought I'd present a sampler tray of various images from the production of my film If I was God, and let you know what I was or wasn't thinking.
Figure 1, below, is a design line-up of my cast of characters. I know it...
5 NFB Films Celebrating Canadian Lumberjacks
Despite the fact not too many people get paid to swing axes and fell trees these days (machines do that now), the mystique of the lumberjack is alive and well in today's popular imagination. In both fiction and fashion, not to mention women's hearts, woodsmen and their rugged...
Animation Tips | Timing is Everything
Wow, am I ever behind in my blogging. When I started the blog on my film around 9 months ago, I had thought committing to a once a month entry would be a snap. Well, in 9 months I've only done 2 entries and my last one was...
Sealskin Stop Motion: Co Hoedeman’s Inuit Legends
According to Wikipedia, prolific Dutch-Canadian animator Co Hoedeman was an unusually plucky young man. At 25, he immigrated to Canada with his then-wife, “on the chance that the National Film Board of Canada might hire him.”
(I don’t want to depress you, but kids: don’t try this at home.)
His...
Stronghearted: Inside Uganda’s Lord’s Resistance Army
* This post was written by filmmaker Jodie Martinson
When Evelyn was a kid, she had big dreams for her future, just like you and me. But she had other dreams, too—nightmares that she would be abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army rebels and stolen away from the future...
The Family That Dwelt Apart: When good intentions go horribly wrong
I love tall tales. The crazier the better. I especially love tall tales that have a strong message.
The NFB animated short The Family That Dwelt Apart fits in all these categories. It tells a tall tale that gets crazier as it goes along and conveys the strong messages...
Enjoy Free Animation Films and Workshops Across Canada Starting October 26th
The NFB is launching the 6th edition of Get Animated!, bringing many of the country’s finest and funniest animated films to communities across Canada in celebration of International Animation Day (October 28.)
Taking place this year from October 26 to November 10, Get Animated! will bring the magic of...
5 NFB Films for Foodies
Food is everything. Without it we die, while a single bite of it can unfurl passions, flood us with nostalgia, transport us to heaven and make us dearly yearn for home and mother. It was World Food Day this week and to mark the occasion, I offer you...
As Trippy As It Gets: Series 4
The absurd, it would appear, acts as a tonic for the mind.
A recent study published in Psychological Science established that people who had read a particularly absurd and confusing version of Franz Kafka’s (already incongruous) short story “A Country Doctor” were better at discerning patterns in long strings...
