Grants and Contributions
About this information
In June 2016, as part of the Open Government Action Plan, the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) committed to increasing the transparency and usefulness of grants and contribution data and subsequently launched the Guidelines on the Reporting of Grants and Contributions Awards, effective April 1, 2018.
The rules and principles governing government grants and contributions are outlined in the Treasury Board Policy on Transfer Payments. Transfer payments are transfers of money, goods, services or assets made from an appropriation to individuals, organizations or other levels of government, without the federal government directly receiving goods or services in return, but which may require the recipient to provide a report or other information subsequent to receiving payment. These expenditures are reported in the Public Accounts of Canada. The major types of transfer payments are grants, contributions and \'other transfer payments\'.
Included in this category, but not to be reported under proactive disclosure of awards, are (1) transfers to other levels of government such as Equalization payments as well as Canada Health and Social Transfer payments. (2) Grants and contributions reallocated or otherwise redistributed by the recipient to third parties; and (3) information that would normally be withheld under the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act.
$70,000.00
Jan 22, 2025
For-profit organization
Enhancing AI Image Generation Capabilities in Canadian Television Production – World Without Us Adaptation
1026526
Summary:
This project focuses on developing in-house AI tools to create high-quality visual effects for television production. By leveraging Canadian talent and training AI models on project-specific data, the initiative aims to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of AI-generated imagery. The goal is to complement existing platforms and integrate innovative workflows into production, driving new capabilities in visual storytelling while boosting Canadian expertise in AI and digital media.
$60,000.00
Oct 3, 2022
For-profit organization
Novel performances derived from DDH datasets
996844
Cream will test a system to apply a general adversarial network (GAN) to dynamic digital humans (DDH) for the purpose of generating unique novel performances without the need to record original performances from the source actors.
$25,000.00
Nov 15, 2021
For-profit organization
3D-2 animator for support of the Cream DDH pipeline and digital productions
981704
Cream will add a junior 3D Animator to assist in the development, testing and optimization of Cream’s DDH pipeline as well as work across various digital production and prototype initiatives.
$50,000.00
Nov 1, 2021
For-profit organization
DDH Market Readiness
982874
In order to grow the DDH client base, we will improve our market readiness which includes: simplifying the pipeline and documentation, onboarding new clients; conducting webinars and case studies; and extending the DDH pipeline to include UE5.
$30,000.00
May 23, 2021
For-profit organization
3D animator for support of the Cream DDH pipeline and digital productions
972292
Cream will add a junior 3D Animator to assist in the development, testing and optimization of Cream’s DDH pipeline as well as work across various digital production and prototype initiatives.
$49,920.00
Jan 18, 2021
For-profit organization
3D Generalist for support of the Cream DDH pipeline and digital productions
963347
Cream will add a recently graduated 3D Generalist / Character Artist to assist in the development, testing and optimization of Cream’s DDH pipeline as well as work across various digital production and prototype initiatives.
$20,000.00
Dec 1, 2020
For-profit organization
ICAP – Cream Productions - International Co-Innovation with the UK
962317
International Co-Innovation Action Program (ICAP) project: Cream Productions is a high-profile Digital Media and TV production company that developed the proprietary software pipeline Dynamic Digital Humans (DDH) to create lifelike digital humans.
We are looking to identify co-innovation partners operating in the gaming and enterprise market who want to test new pipelines to create cost effective, high quality avatars for AR/VR.
$49,998.00
Jun 8, 2020
For-profit organization
Continuation of the development of DDH Technology
952948
Cream will add scope and resources to development activities pertaining to the procedural automation of 3D animation for XR and VR. We will be creating a procedural engine for the building of 3D structures to be used for Cream’s game productions including the VR game ‘Herbal Warfare’, as well as the automation of various body animations of our Dynamic Digital Human avatar.
$60,000.00
May 4, 2020
For-profit organization
Modular behaviours for dynamic digital humans
949072
Cream will be creating a set of modular behaviours that can be used to power the AI of XR Unity characters, removing much of the work needed to create these behaviours from scratch.
The behaviour modules will drive realistic character behaviours such as keeping proper distance during a conversation, leading the player to a destination, following the player, responding to voice commands, gaze, and gestures by the player.
These modules will act as a foundation for Unity developers seeking to create lifelike XR character behaviours easily.
$50,000.00
Dec 2, 2019
For-profit organization
DDH for AR [Dynamic Digital Humans for Augmented Reality]
939220
Optimizing Cream’s Dynamic Digital Human technology to build a low cost, high fidelity, volumetric facial avatar for Android mobile and Augmented Reality. Specifically, we will create a prototype for the Microsoft Hololens.