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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Augmented reality and face-swapping seem to be hot candidates for the next mobile apps; just look at Facebook’s purchase of MSQRD or Snapchat’s acquisition of Looksery. But one AR startup called ...

“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 ...

It was midday last Thursday when the founding team behind the new visualization app Pinscreen quietly launched what they hoped would be a welcome diversion from the tense last days of the election.

British architect Asif Khan’s MegaFace art installation was teased well before the athletes had even arrived in Sochi. But now that the Winter Olympics are well under way, we’ve finally got footage of ...

A former executive at Los Angeles-based start-up Pinscreen alleges in a lawsuit he was unfairly fired and assaulted by co-workers after he accused the company of misrepresenting its technological ...