Making music for animation: A masterclass with Luigi Allemano
A while back, we shared with you a handful of quick tips for making music for your animation films. The tips had been carefully prepared by composer Luigi Allemano, who...
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Want to participate in a 12-week paid animation apprenticeship at the NFB?
Attention all budding and blooming animators! Hothouse, our very own “12-week paid apprenticeship in full-on professional animation filmmaking” is once again calling for submissions. Things are shaping up to look...
70 Years of Animation, Part 2 – Norman McLaren
*This post is a translation from French. You can see the original post here. In Part One, I mentioned that while the NFB initially lacked an animation department, by signing...
70 Years of Animation, Part 1 – When Animation Marches Off to War
*This post is a translation from French. You can see the original post here. Since September 2011, the National Film Board of Canada and the Aéroports de Montréal are presenting...
5 (quick) tips for making music for animation
During Get Animated!, our yearly animation bonanza, composer extraordinaire Luigi Allemano gave a workshop called Making Music for Animation at the Mediathèque in Toronto. Luigi being Luigi (read awesome), he...
Canada Vignettes: Essential Canadiana, eh!
The Canada Vignettes have become a treasure of Canadian nostalgia. Here is how the project came to be.
Friday staff pick: Getting Started with downloads
One of the nice feature we added to NFB.ca recently is the possibility to buy the digital version of some of our films. You can find more about this feature...
Canuxploitation’s Paul Corupe revisits The Sniffing Bear
A while back, we stumbled upon (or at least our Google Alerts did) Paul Corupe’s excellent blog, Canuxploitation (Your Complete Guide to Canadian B Film) and its deliciously zany column,...
Enjoy free animation screenings, workshops and master classes in a city near you
Get Animated! is an annual NFB-sponsored animation bonanza that brings public screenings, master classes and workshops to communities all across Canada, all for the fantastic (and unbeatable) price of FREE....
Top 10 reasons David Verrall is leaving the NFB
As you may have read before on this blog, animation filmmaker and producer David Verrall has retired from the NFB after 34 fruitful years. Last week, friends and colleagues (including...
The NFB and Vimeo: a match made in video heaven
It’s official. After Youtube and Daily Motion, the NFB is launching its very own Vimeo channel. I don’t know about you but we, the NFB’s web team, are big fans...
6 NFB films at the 2011 Vancouver International Film Festival
From September 28 to October 14, B.C.’s capital will host the 29th edition of the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF), one of North America’s 5 largest film festivals. Over the...