Tag: Toronto
DNEG Opens Toronto Studio, Aims for 200 Hires in First Year
Leading VFX and animation studio DNEG has officially opened its previously announced outpost in the King West district of Toronto today (Friday). With more...
Tippett Studio Expands to Canada with Toronto Office
Tippett Studio, founded by two-time Academy Award-winning artist, animator and filmmaker Phil Tippett (whose VFX work can be seen in legendary films such as...
Adam Yaniv’s ‘Summer Memories’ Now in Production for WildBrain
A&N Productions (founded by animator/producer Adam Yaniv), Aircraft Pictures (producers of the Academy Award-nominated animated feature film The Breadwinner and Emmy-nominated series Holly Hobbie)...
Sketches from a Full-Color Life: ‘Freebird’ Filmmakers on Creating Their Touching Neurodiversity Short
A woman holds her baby for the first time. A young boy braves school bullying. True love blooms. A child given a little extra...
Autodesk Acquiring LoUPE Cloud-Based Animation Pipeline Tech from Tangent Labs
Autodesk today announced the acquisition of LoUPE, the powerful cloud-based production pipeline technology for artists and studios, and is hiring the team that created...
Cinesite at 30: Celebrating Three Decades of Iconic Images
***This article originally appeared in the December '21 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 315)***
Even if you are a casual observer of the animation and...
The Nuttery Developing ‘Hakan Brakan’ for Animation
Karlstad, Sweden and Toronto, Canada-based animation studio The Nuttery Entertainment has signed an exclusive agreement with Storytel, one of the world’s largest audiobook publishers,...
Event Updates: Anime NYC Schedule, ABP Halloween Winners, VIEW 2021 Results & More
Anime NYC powered by Crunchyroll (www.animenyc.com), one of North America’s largest dedicated anime, manga and Japanese pop culture conventions, will present three days of...
A Monster Evolves: Upping the Visual Ante in ‘Venom: Let There Be Carnage’
***This article originally appeared in the December '21 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 315)***
One of the benefits of producing a sequel is that the...
Fall Festival & Event Updates
Bug Therapy, the new comedy feature from 88 Pictures and Citronella Stories, powered by Epic MegaGrants, will make its world premiere at the Austin...
Sean Pecknold’s Love of Hand-Crafted Animation Takes Flight in Fleet Foxes’ ‘Featherweight’
For the Fleet Foxes’ latest single “Featherweight,” Los Angeles-based director Sean Pecknold crafted a world of struggle and hope brought to life using stop-motion...
Animation Is Film Festival Announces 2021 Slate
Animation Is Film (AIF) announced today the competition line-up and other special events for its fourth edition, which takes place in-person October 22-24 and...
‘Lucas the Spider’: Spinning a Loving Web
***This article was written for the November '21 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 314)***
Back in November of 2017, animator Joshua Slice’s charming Lucas the...
Event Updates: Annies Call for Entries, MAF Goes Hybrid, SIGGRAPH Asia & More
13th Annual Bay Area Int'l Children's Film Festival: That's a Wrap
BAICFF presented a fab film program in partnership with Dublin's Festival of Curiosity, as...
Animator Peter R. Brown Dies of Cancer
Peter R. Brown, a Canadian animator and effects artist who built a reputation as a standout overseas supervisor working in Asia on shows like...
The Way of the Samurai: BTS of ‘Snake Eyes’ with VFX Supe Olaf Wendt
***This article was written for the August '21 issue of Animation Magazine (No. 312)***
An iconic ninja warrior in the G.I. Joe franchise gets his...
3D Wire Selects 153 Animation & Video Game Projects for Market
The 3D Wire Market (Oct. 4-6) has selected 153 projects for the catalog of its 11th edition -- A total of 18 feature films,...
Arc Prods. (Formerly Starz Animation) Adds Denton in L.A.
Toronto-based animation house Arc Productions, recently acquired by a Canadian ownership group from Starz Media, has hired Stephanie Denton to head its Los Angles...
Shoreline Launches Straightline Animation
Shoreline Entertainment and Perfect Circle Productions have partnered to launch Straightline Animation, a division dedicated to the acquisition and production of animated feature films...
Skywriter Launches Skyreader Platform for E-readers
Skyreader Media, a recently established division of Skywriter Media and Entertainment Group, announces the launch of its Skyreader platform for quickly turning books and...
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