Hothouse 7: Simplify
The following is a guest post by Andrew Hicks. My original intent for Hothouse 7 was to use an alternative animation technique, by using audio to directly effect a particle...
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.
Tom Perlmutter on accessibility, new forms of storytelling and risk-taking
Earlier this month, NFB President Tom Perlmutter gave an interview to IT in Canada‘s Dave Chapelle. In a piece fittingly titled, NFB embraces technology to tell Canadian stories, Perlmutter discusses...
Hothouse 7: Soap Operas and Battlestar
The following is a guest post by Andrew Hicks. Here is a clip from a Skype screen share meeting Jelena Popovick and I had regarding my first animatic. Jelena, our...
Pour la suite du monde: The Perrault Classic in English
The English version of Pierre Perrault and Michel Brault’s Pour la suite du monde is a really interesting example of adapting a film into the other language.
Hothouse 7: Studio Tour, IN 3D!
The following is a guest post by Andrew Hicks. Eva, you inspired me.. Here is a video that shows where all the magic happens! Later !
Hothouse 7: Yep, Tomatoes.
The following is a guest post by Andrew Hicks. I got up from my computer to escape some stereoscopic animation tests and made my way to the grocery store… Everywhere...
Hothouse 7: Andrew Hicks
The following is a guest post by Andrew Hicks. Hello! My name is Andrew Hicks. I am a recent BFA graduate from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design...
Hothouse 7: IT BEGINS.
The following is a guest post by Andrew Hicks. Come with me on my journey through particle animations powered by audio waveform data! NOTE: If that is not the nerdiest thing...
Friday Staff Pick: Pas de Deux
Pas de Deux wasn’t the first Norman McLaren film I ever saw. Nor was it the film that tipped me into becoming an animation filmmaker. But when I finally did...
Welcome to Pine Point: An interview with The Goggles
Some towns thrive and some towns fall to ruin, but a town that gets flattened to the ground and erased from the map altogether? That’s both highly unusual and exactly...
Turning 32: An interview with director Robbie Hart
The following is a guest post by Tanya Koivusalo. What are the universal characteristics we humans share? Robbie Hart and Luc Côté explore this intriguing question in their new feature-length...
The Astral Media Scholarship Program is giving money to emerging filmmakers – do you qualify?
The Astral Media Scholarship Program has put out it’s call for applications. The program has 3 arms through which they support emerging-level filmmakers in Quebec and British Columbia: The Doc...