<h3>Where</h3><p>Online</p><h3>When</h3><p>March 24-26, 2022</p>

Toronto Animation Film Festival

<h3>Where</h3><p>Online</p><h3>When</h3><p>March 24-27, 2021</p>

<h3>Where</h3><p>Hot Docs Cinema | Toronto, Canada | 506 Bloor Street West</p><h3>When</h3><p>Monday April 25th</p>

<h3>Where</h3><p>Online</p><h3>When</h3><p>November 11-13, 2021</p>

Toronto Animation Industry Conference

<h3>Where</h3><p>Online</p><h3>When</h3><p>November 18-22, 2020<span class="ql-cursor">﻿</span></p>

<h3>Where</h3><p>Corus Quay, Toronto, Canada, 25 Dockside Dr.</p><h3>When</h3><p>Saturday to Sunday, November 2-3, 2019</p>

Toronto Animation / VFX Job Fair

TAAFI News

<p>Elizabeth Ito is a 15 year veteran of the animation industry. She has worked for many different studios on TV, feature, and commercial projects. Her many credits include supervising director on Adventure Time, &nbsp;feature storyboard artist on Hotel Transylvania, Astroboy, and The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.  In 2017, she won a Emmy for directing the Adventure Time episode, Islands Part 4: Imaginary Resources.</p><p>She is also the creator of the award-winning short, <a href="https://youtu.be/idT98H8TK-U" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Welcome to My Life</a>, &nbsp;which to-date, is the second-most viewed short in Cartoon Network history.&nbsp; It won the Audience Award for children aged between 12 and 17 at the New York International Children’s Film Festival (NYICFF), and Best Film For Children at the Zagreb World Animation Festival. </p><p>Elizabeth currently works at <a href="https://elizabethito.com/www.netflix.com" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Netflix</a>, and is developing her own project about ghosts. </p>

<p>Elizabeth Ito's many credits include supervising director on Adventure Time,&nbsp;feature storyboard artist on Hotel Transylvania, Astroboy, and The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water.</p>

Elizabeth Ito

<p><span style="color: rgb(99, 100, 102);">Dave Padbury joined the Guru development team five years ago to work on "True and The Rainbow Kingdom". Since then, he has contributed to the upcoming Disney Junior series "Pikwik", the CBC comedy "Big Blue", and many others. He is focused on supporting creators' visions across all of Guru's upcoming series and finding new voices and new stories.&nbsp;</span></p>

Dave Padbury

<p>The art of storytelling has become a big focus with emerging technologies. Dan Fill (Dark Slope), Steve Miller (Secret Location) and Leslie Klassen (Flipside) discuss how virtual reality (VR) opens up a world of storytelling possibilities that turn viewers into active participants of an experience. Analyzing narratives - our panel discusses the challenges of immersive storytelling.&nbsp;</p>

Immersive Storytelling

Ana Serrano

Dan Fill

Lesley Klassen

Steve Miller

<p>Dan is a co-founder and head of development for Dark Slope Studios, a start up focused on innovative new forms of animation production for warehouse scale free roam virtual reality experiences, goggle-based augmented reality and game engine driven linear animation.&nbsp;</p><p>Dan is an award winning creator/producer who has recently moved back to Canada from Australia where he oversaw a production company Chocolate Liberation Front.&nbsp;As former head of multiplatform for ABC, Dan has worked on projects with Weta, BBC and Cartoon Network Europe. As former VP interactive at Decode Entertainment, Dan collaborated on projects for The Jim Henson Company, Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, MTV as well as games for Steam and tablet.&nbsp;</p>