The numbers are in, folks. • $24 million for the Film Industry Tax Credit • The Film Industry Tax Credit will change from one that is fully refundable to one that is 25 per cent refundable. • The remaining 75…
Author: Rebecca David
Behind A Table At TAAFI 2014
Gosh I love TAAFI. You can ask Mike, he’ll back me up. The atmosphere is what I like the most, I think. The air at TAAFI is laid-back and happy. There are cartoons to watch, panels to attend and…
Rebecca David chats with Rebecca Sugar (STEVEN UNIVERSE!!!)
With Steven Universe premiering on Teletoon late last month, we were given an opportunity to speak with creator Rebecca Sugar. Within our talk we cover Rebecca’s journey from school to now, her hopes and intentions with the show, how…
TAAFI 2013 in review
This year TAAFI was kind enough to let me attend their animation weekend, as long as I promised to tweet the whole time. I think I did a good job. This was TAAFI’s 2nd year, of which I did not attend…
John Textor Quits Digital Domain and the End of Tembo, UPDATED: JON TEXTOR’S RESIGNATION LETTER
The VFX community is abuzz with the sudden fall of Digital Domain stock prices and the revelation that they are in massive debt. We asked ourselves what this could mean for Tembo, the feature film Digital Domain had slotted to…
Education and Exploitation with John Textor
Publisher’s Note(Mike V): Apologies to those readers still interested in following this story. We were unable to schedule the second half of our interview with John Textor in an expedient fashion, and felt it best to get what we do…
Q&A with John Textor – CEO of Digital Domain
Editor’s Note: We’ve been running coverage following the reveal that Digital Domain is setting up a school, using government funding, to enable students to pay tuition for the “privilege” of working on their upcoming animated features. The bit that really…
Editorial: Working = Money, right?
From the publisher: (Mike!) Yesterday’s big story here, and on a few other like-minded sites, was the new business model being espoused by Digital Domain CEO John Textor, whereby students at their new government-funded school are paying tuition to work…