Coding vs. art

Mastering painting and drawing is no longer enough to succeed in the animation industry — coding and scripting are essential requirements for a position at a top animation firm. “Right now almost all animations are made by computers. Fields such as movies and...

Preserving the old

Fuel Industries last year sought to find the long-rumored cache of buried E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video games. The games, made for the Atari 2600, long have been linked to the video game industry’s crash in the early 1980s. Surplus copies of E.T. The...

Walking, talking tree

Five films are nominated for an Academy Award in the “Visual Effects” category this year, and they each offer a nice look at the amazing tricks filmmakers and their effects teams can pull off on the big screen. In recognition of these films and one of our favorite...

More tax credits

Good news for B.C.’s digital media companies, as the provincial budget has extended the tax credit for interactive digital media to 2018. During Tuesday’s budget review, Finance Minister Michael de Jong announced that British Columbia is expanding the...

Life after Pi 2

When Rhythm & Hues declared bankruptcy in February 2013, laying off hundreds of employees and taking $17 million in loans just so it could complete VFX work for Universal and Fox, the court filings led to weeks of discussion about how a company that had worked on...