<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><span style="color: rgb(38, 50, 56);">GRITTY, FRESH, and FUN. Joel's work has been screened at some of the top festivals in the world and that has opened the door to take his ideas further with clients. Currently he is developing shows with Corus/Teletoon, Sonar/Wildseed, and Boat Rocker media. He also has a short with Nickelodeon, and a bunch of other ideas he is trying to get off the ground. He hopes to own a dog someday and eventually play every video game in the world.</span></p>

Joel MacKenzie

<p>Jason grew up in Bayfield, Wisconsin, a very small town located on the south shore of the largest lake on the planet, Lake Superior. He studied classical animation at Sheridan College in Ontario Canada, where his student film, Mt. Ehn, won the Teletoon: Most Promising Student award. In 2002, Jason began his professional career at Naughty Dog Studios in Los Angeles, animating the hit game series Jak &amp; Daxter, and later Uncharted 2 and Uncharted 3.</p><p>A move to New York came next to work at Blue Sky Studios on feature films including Ice Age II, Horton Hears a Who, Ice Age III and Rio. Jason has combined his career moves with his love for travel; he has lived in Madrid, working on Planet 51 for Ilion Animation Studios, in London working on Iron Man and Paul for Double Negative, and in Melbourne he worked on After Earth for Iloura Studios.</p><p>In 2012, he settled in Vancouver BC at the Coalition, working on Gears of War; and at Sony Pictures Animation working on Hotel Transylvania 1 and 2, Cloudy 2, Storks, and finally, Emoji the movie. Next he returned to Blue Sky Studios in New York as senior character animator on Ferdinand.</p><p>In 2018 Jason began work with Moon Studios on their visually stunning game, Ori and the Will of the Wisps. In Jan 2019 Jason relocated to Montreal Canada, and began work for Reel FX. Current he is lead animator on Scooby-Doo (based on the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon).</p><p>Throughout his career, Jason has shared his passion for animation with his students. As an animation mentor instructor, and through his demo reel improvement program. In addition, he provides studio animation teams around the world with specialized training (based on project needs).</p>

Jason Martinsen

<p><span style="background-color: transparent;">The merging of animation and live action has been around since the start of movies, but we are seeing animation used in feature films and TV series more prominently and seamlessly than ever before. In this discussion, Marc-Andre Baron (Detective Pikachu) </span>Cesar Dacol Jr (Happy Feet 2), Jeff Robinson, and Lon Molnar (HBO's Watchmen)<em style="background-color: transparent;"> </em><span style="background-color: transparent;">will talk about the use of animation in live action, and how to achieve seamless interaction between animated characters and their live action counterparts.</span></p>

VFX Character Animation

Cesar Dacol Jr

Jeff Robinson

Lon Molnar

Marc-Andre Baron

<p>Jeff&nbsp;Robinson (born in Vancouver, 1980) - animator, filmmaker and woodworker</p><p>During his over fifteen years of experience in the animation industry,&nbsp;Jeff&nbsp;has worked on many TV, feature and commercial projects.&nbsp;&nbsp;Jeff&nbsp;loves cartoons, mahogany and monsters.</p><p>Jeff&nbsp;currently works as an animation director at Sinking Ship Entertainment in Toronto. In the midnight hours he is making the first ever monster movie about a ten foot tall mutant Canadian goose.</p>