Character design

Back in the semi-early days of arcade and video games – once we had progressed beyond simple geometric shapes such as Pac-Man’s sliced circle or Asteroids’ rotating arrow – character design was crucial. It was a challenge. Developers had to make every pixel count to...

Picture women

Maija Burnett scanned her California Institute of the Arts classroom as nearly 60 new students filtered in, empty notebooks in hand. It was the start of the 2014-15 school year, and Burnett, director of CalArts’ character animation program, was meeting this crop...

HTML animation

Since Apple banned Flash on its mobile devices, advertisers and creative professionals accustomed to using the software to build digital ads have been forced to experiment with drag-and-drop HTML5 tools and open source technology in order to create ad content for a...

More N.S.

No matter what happens now, industry insiders predict there will be fewer film and animation productions started in Nova Scotia this year. It has been more than a month since people working on film, television and animation productions learned of plans to change...

N.S. tax credit

The provincial government is creating a new stream within the Digital Media Tax Credit to support the animation industry. The move follows changes to the film tax credit, which has been transitioned to a new fund contained in the Liberal government’s budget. When the...