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...
The Craft
Here we feature updates, tips, and other useful information for creators in the film and media industries, including interviews with practitioners and discussion of emerging technologies, forms, and audiences.
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...
New HIGHRISE documentary takes form to new heights
by Katerina Cizek I used to dislike highrise buildings. I would drive by them, without much thought, and dread the elevator when I actually had to go inside. These days,...
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,...
Heat-sensitive: a behind-the-scenes look at our thermal 3D film ORA
This morning on the bus I found myself reading an argument by a Hindu scholar, somewhere online, about how some people are poets and others scientists. According to this man,...
Bush Pilot: Canada’s History Comes Alive
Bush Pilot: Reflections on a Canadian Myth was originally to be a film on the fabled Noorduyn Norseman bush plane.
Final farewell to prolific NFB filmmaker and producer Tom Daly
Distinguished Canadian film director and producer Tom Daly has died this past Sunday, September 18, 2011, after a long illness. He was 94. Daly’s contribution to the NFB is rich...
Unikkasivut: Artisans from the shadows… and the cold
This post was translated from French. Most of you have seen our legendary short film How to Build an Igloo, but not many of you are aware of the scope...
Cinemagraphs or Good ol’ Graphics Interchange Format
This post was translated from French. Last week, this post by Belinda Lanks on fastcodesign.com was widely shared and re-shared on social networks. That shouldn’t come as a surprise, since...
NFB Images – A Trove of Treasures Old and New
This post is a translation. To read the French original, click here. Did you know that you can watch, edit, share and download high-quality (HD) archives directly from NFB.ca/images free...
FNC: Calling all crossmedia artists and women with phones
Montreal’s Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) is celebrating its 40th anniversary this October. Aside from the programming and special events (which we’ll tell you everything about as opening night approaches),...