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===National Film Board of Canada===
The [[National Film Board of Canada]], already a world center for animation art, also began experimentation with computer techniques in 1969.<ref>"Retired NRC Scientists Burtnyk and Wein honoured as Fathers of Computer Animation Technology in Canada". ''Sphere'' (National Research Council of Canada) 4. 1996. (Retrieved April 20, 2011).</ref> Most well-known of the early pioneers with this was artist [[Peter Foldes]], who completed ''Metadata'' in 1971. This film comprised drawings animated by gradually changing from one image to the next, a technique known as "interpolating" (also known as "inbetweening" or "morphing"), which also featured in a number of earlier art examples during the 1960s.<ref name="NFBC-NRC">From [http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/tree/nfbc.html "The Film Animator Today: Artists Without A Canvas"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402221929/http://design.osu.edu/carlson/history/tree/nfbc.html |date=April 2, 2012 }} (retrieved April 22, 2012)</ref> In 1974, Foldes completed ''[[Hunger (1974 film)|Hunger / La Faim]]'', which was one of the first films to show solid filled (raster scanned) rendering, and was awarded the Jury Prize in the short film category at [[1974 Cannes Film Festival]], as well as an Academy Award nomination. Foldes and the National Film Board of Canada employed pioneering keyframe computer technology develped at the [[National Research Council Canada|National Research Council]] of Canada (NRC) by scientist Nestor Burtnyk. Burtnyk and his collaborator Marceli Wein received the Academy Award in 1997 in recognition of their role in the field.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Deachman |first=Bruce |date=August 31, 2018 |title=And the Oscar goes to...: Ottawa scientists were pioneers in animation technology |url=https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/and-the-oscar-goes-to-ottawa-scientists-were-pioneers-in-animation-technology |access-date=April 20, 2025 |work=Ottawa Citizen}}</ref> The NRC team also contributed high-profile animation sequences to the celebrated BBC documentary series The Ascent of Man (1973). <ref>{{Cite web |last=National Research Council staff |date=October 20, 2015 |title=Computer Animation - An Oscar Winning Performance |url=https://ingeniumcanada.org/channel/innovation/computer-animation-oscar-winning-performance |access-date=April 20, 2025 |website=Ingenium Channel}}</ref>
===Atlas Computer Laboratory and Antics===
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