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Jack Picknell

Established Date: Dec. 29, 1956

  • All
  • animation
  • software
  • Canadian

  • Began in CGI in 1979 with Ariel Computer Productions (Toronto), one of Canada's first commercial CGI companies. Freelanced around Toronto 1980 - 1986 working with McGrath & Associates, Alias Research, Meloche Communications, Canadian Computer Graphics, and Cross Core Communications Group. In 1983 I made the first direct to videodisk animation in Canada - The station ID animation for Civic TV - the fictional TV station in David Cronenberg's "Videodrome". In 1986 I moved to Vancouver and worked as Creative Director for The Graphic Resource Group then as Art Director at Changing Images Productions. In 1988 at Changing Images I won the top international award for art direction (AMI International). In 1990 I went to work as Manager of Visual Design …

  • Alias research actually had it's beginnings as a TV show concept. I was working with Cross Core Communications in Toronto, where I met Sue McKenna. Her friend Steve Bingham was looking to develop a TV series on interesting statistics, - sort of a believe-it-or-not using the Entertainment Tonight show format, and requiring a great deal of CGI. Sue invited me to meet with Steve in order to help storyboard ideas, and to provide some advice on the use of CGI …

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    Alias research actually had it's beginnings as a TV show concept. I was working with Cross Core Communications in Toronto, where I met Sue McKenna. Her friend Steve Bingham was looking to develop a TV series on interesting statistics, - sort of a believe-it-or-not using the Entertainment Tonight show format, and requiring a great deal of CGI. Sue invited me to meet with Steve in order to help storyboard ideas, and to provide some advice on the use of CGI in the production. After some discussion, I realized the range of CGI desired was outside the capabilites of the equipmant I was famililar with, and I suggested they speak with Nigel McGrath. They met, they dumped the TV idea, and started Alias instead.

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