This year witnessed a rare event in the animation world: the birth of a new pinscreen. The device will live at the art center La Bande Vidéo in Quebec City, and artists will soon be able to access it ...

Michèle Lemieux, “Here and the Great Elsewhere” (2012) (all images courtesy Sooean Chin) Developed by husband-and-wife team Alexandre Alexeieff and Claire Parker in the 1930s, pinscreen animation is a ...

“Unique” is an often-misused adjective, but it certainly applied to Jacques Drouin. For three decades, the late Quebec animator was the only artist in the world practising the intensely intricate ...

The sudden passing of animator Jacques Drouin from a stroke was a shock to many in animation, especially in the halls of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), where he was an influential and ...