Triple Crown Snowboarding for the Wii On Sale Now

The games publisher, Destineer Games, has announced the release of Triple Crown Championship Snowboarding for the Wii. Animation Brewery was proud to work in association with Magellan Interactive, Vancouver, to produce 3D models, designs and textures on the project. We had a tight crew that we are very proud of. Robin Witzche lead the modeling team with her expert design sense and her model building experience garnered at EA.

Here are a few great Youtube links to some of the gameplay: snowboard cross, halfpipe and slopestyle.

January 2010 - FutureThink BC: Cimate Change Impacts and Adaptations

FutureThink BC: Climate Change in Action is our latest project which has been designed for BC high school students. It is made possible by a grant from the Ministry of Environment and administered by Tides Canada Initiatives.

This animated interactive educational web project is based on years of research in climate change and features interviews from key BC scientists and other experts in the field. In association with GreenThink the Brewery is producing 9 Flash animated movies at 10-12 minutes each, and the interactive Flash interface serving as the portal to additional resources for BC students and teachers. The resources will be located on the WildBC website in the Climate Change Education section when it is completed.

May 2009 - The Magical Thread Launches Online

The Brewery has recently completed The Magical Thread, an interactive online storybook for young children. It was produced for Diane Simpson of Creative Perspectives and The Yukon Conservation Society. Designs were by Tanya Handley of BearBait.ca and Animation Brewery was the Interactive Producer. The adventure included a full story with recorded narration, clickable sound effects, 51 drag and drop Flash activites, 19 short films, songs and more. We built the game engine in Action Script 3 which communicates with interactive Flash animation via XML. Its meant to run in a browser and we have successfully ported it to a parallel DVD version.

James Zickmantel was the senior programmer who did an amazingly thorough and high quality job on a very tight schedule. Awesome work James! Kudos as well to our junior programmer Mariska Gozali. Coming soon to classrooms around BC. Visit www.MagicalThread.com for more info.

Fishy Underwater Adventures

In February Mike Catherall of Immersion Creative asked us to create an underwater scene in Flash based on a photo. We have little fishies chasing the mouse cursor lots of bubbles and other underwater effects. See this fun little scene at www.ImmersionCreative.com

March 2008 - Zigby!

The Brewery has just completed production storyboards for 6 episodes in the new animated series called Zigby which will play on Treehouse.

November 18, 2008 - Animation Brewery Blog Launch

The Animation Brewery Blog is now up for your reading enjoyment. We will endeavour to post info and news that is relevant to both artists and management. Basically, Glen and I do a lot of research into what's going down in the animation biz and we'd like to share stuff that we figure others care about and get feedback from the community. Read the BLOG at
www.AnimationBrewery.Wordpress.com

October 12, 2008 - GNP Blog Launched

Ok, GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT! has been out for over a week now. We re-mixed the sound last weekend so we posted the new version and the big news this week is that we started a BLOG for GNP!
Go to http://GrossNationalProd.Blogspot.com I'm hoping to get a Animation Brewery Blog going too asap which will be a bit different from the website. It should be a little less corporate.
I'm jazzed about the blog because the tone is different there - we can get into more of the behind-the-scenes aspects of these cartoons. I will be posting lots of pre-production artwork for those interested in the process. As well, there will be lots of Double Exposure audio and video clips once I get to it.

October 2, 2008 - GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT Launched Online In Time For Federal Election

We are very excited today to announce the launch of GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT!, a series of animated political satires featuring the talents of the legendary comedy duo Double Exposure. These hilarious animated shorts will poke fun at current events with the celebrated wit of Double Exposure's Bob Robertson and Linda Cullen (press release). The first episode will take aim at the English language leaders' debate to be held this evening.

September 21 , 2008

Glen and I returned from the TAC (Television Animation Conference) in Ottawa tonight. We also caught a wee bit of the Ottawa Animation Festival. Unfortunately we didn't get to see the full programme this time. Lots of great meetings with clients and peers in the industry. I'm looking forward to the follow up where we cut some deals and get busy!

February 27 , 2008

Our NEW DEMO has just been released!

January 26, 2008

We are getting pretty excited here at the Brewery about the next few weeks. A lot has been going on behind the scenes and we should be announcing our projects soon. As for the last couple months, we recently concluded service work on two different television series': we produced Flash animation for the popular show"Chaotic"for Bardel Entertainment, and we provided rough animation for Collideascope Digital in Halifax on "Delilah and Julius".Currently we're engaged in creating storyboards for a new undisclosed TV series. More about that once its been released.

Currently we are looking for local animation and storyboard artists with TV production experience in Flash or Toonboom. We aren't hiring just yet but are building up our database for upcoming work. Contact us at jobs@animationbrewery.com Do check in from time to time if you have applied before. As well, update us with any new demo's you have (online links are preferred) and your resume.

September 10, 2007

Phew! Have we ever been busy..We have been animating in Flash on Chaotic for Bardel Entertainment since back in May. Its been a lot of fun but that is winding down in a few weeks time. Meanwhile we are in progress and ramping up on a new Flash production to be announced soon.

We are also very excited about our new location close to the intersection of Richards & West Hastings in downtown Vancouver. Its much larger than our previous spot which allows us to grow - and we ARE growing.

The International Partnering Forum and Vidfest is just around the corner. Glen and Stu will be in attendance and are looking forward to meeting the other delegates.

July 1, 2006

We are looking forward to attending the upcoming Mobile Game Conference Seattle , July 13-14 at the Meydenbauer Center. If you are planning to attend and would like to meet us please contact Stu Wenschlag for information.

On a related conference note, from September 20-24 we will be attending the 2006 Ottawa International Animation Festival & Television Animation Conference. We are looking forward to catching up with our far flung industry friends. Brazil will be highlighted this year which is something we are very excited about.

June 14-16, 2006

Vidfest and the New Media BC International Partnership Forum was held on Granville Island again this year. It was our second year in attendance at Vidfest and first time at the IPF. We met some really terrific folks who really are excited about the latest developments in new media. There is just so much going on its a tough job keeping abreast of the latest news. Vidfest was a great opportunity for us to keep current.

Dec 1, 2005

Happy Holidays from The Animation Brewery!! Today we emailed out our flash-animated holiday greeting cards to our clients and friends. If you love zombies as much as we do then click here

November 28, 2005

The Animation Brewery begins production of a Flash-animated short film JD Bitterman intended for the web. This is in addition to our other shows in development such as Blood & Guts Theatre and Over the Top Sports. See our Productions page for more information.

November 14, 2005

The Animation Brewery launches new web site - yeah, we know the old one sucked.

Sept 20-24, 2005

Glen Schachowskoj, Co-Owner, attends the Television Animation Conference &Ottawa International Animation Festival "I had a great time at OIAF and the TAC. I re-acquainted with some old friends and made some new ones. The Festival and Conference were excellent, with informative seminars and enjoyable parties. The screenings were a highlight for me, getting to see some of the new and interesting stuff being done by others. I am looking forward to attending next year."