Last week’s Spark Animation 2014 conference, film festival and job fair revealed two sides of Vancouver’s animation industry. On the one hand, Bardel Entertainment – a big company with 500 employees working in three studios – premiered its big-screen feature, Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet, at a sold-out Vancity Theatre.
Meanwhile, Animation Brewery Productions, a two-man business that adds employees when needed, wasn’t able to attend because it was busy working on projects for the mobile market, which is the company’s chief business.
Two solitudes? Not really. In fact, Bardel also diversifies into mobile entertainment, and has an interactive division, Kid Riot Digital Inc.
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