Freelance heaven

Silverdraft LLC plans to create a unique supercomputing lab in the heart of Hollywood, slated to open in the fall of 2015. Located at the historic Jim Henson Studios, The Silverdraft Center For Content Creation (SC3) will enable freelance artists, and creators of...

Happy workers

Hundreds poured in to the Hilton Hotel conference venue for FITC Toronto 2015, which spanned from April 12-14. The technology and creativity event covered a breath of topics in the world of business and entrepreneurship, and how these worlds often intersect with art...

A CG RSI fix?

Computer generated (CG) animation has become extremely popular during the past two decades, and it is now much more common to see this type of rendering in films and TV shows as opposed to stop-motion or hand drawn animation. Although many people probably assume that...

Career fair

The Vancouver Economic Commission (VEC), in collaboration with the Visual Effects Society Vancouver Section (VES), is hosting the city’s largest annual career fair on April 18 for Vancouver’s booming Digital Entertainment and Interactive sector. The fair, now in its...

Low budget feature

Can a cut-paper, stop-motion feature film capably and faithfully represent the tortured psychodrama and indulgent gore of samurai cinema? Or will it end up being, for lack of a better term, a poor cut-and-paste job? For the most part, from its first bloody corpse to...