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Transitions (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Transitions' is the first full-colour 3D IMAX film, created for the Canada Pavilion at Expo 86, co-directed by Colin Low and Tony Ianzelo and produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It built upon 'We Are Born of Stars' created for Expo '85 in Tskuba, Japan, which used anaglyph 3D. The film is also notable for the first use of stereoscopic computer animation.
Production
Canadian National, the main sponsor of the Canada Pavilion, asked the NFB to produce a film about transportation in Canada, in keeping with the fair's theme Transportation and Communications.
The film's computer animation sequence was produced by the Centre d'animatique unit of the NFB's French animation studio, credited to Daniel Langlois, shortly before he left the NFB to found Softimage.
Projection
'Transitions' was projected on a screen at the pavilion's CN IMAX Theatre, to over 1.75 million people, during a six-month run.
See also
*'Momentum', a 1992 NFB IMAX HD film for Seville Expo '92, by the same creative team as 'Transitions'
*'The Romance of Transportation in Canada', a 1952 NFB animated short about transportation in Canada, also directed by Colin Low
References
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