<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>M.R. Horhager is a Filipino-Canadian creator, director, writer and filmmaker from Toronto, Ontario with a decade of experience in the animation industry. His work includes directing the award-winning series “Dot.” produced by the Jim Henson Company, working with Sesame Workshop as a director on “Prankster Planet”, and his current role as an episodic director and creative producer on Nickelodeon’s “Blues Clues &amp; You” reboot.</p><p>His past director credits also include the pre-school series “Chirp”, and the Christmas special "The Curse of Clara: A Holiday Tale", which won a 2017 Canadian Screen Award for "Best Animated Program or Series".</p><p>In addition to his work in broadcast TV, M.R. Horhager is also a prolific creator of original animated content, with multiple projects in various stages of development. He has also written, directed and produced several short films, with many that have appeared in international festivals, including "Extreme Nuts" (2010), "Ball'oons" (2011), "I Hate You Red Light" (2012), "Ringo" (2012), and "Kafka’s Little Fable" (2016). In 2017, he was invited to pitch one of his original projects, “The Distinguished Dinosaurs”, at the acclaimed Annecy International Animated Film Festival.</p><p>M.R. Horhager’s varied experience has given him the opportunity to work on shows and develop content that span from the pre-school demographic up to adult. In addition to his many projects, his newest venture in 2019 is leveraging his strong storytelling ability as a TV writer.</p>

Mathias Richard Horhager

<p><span style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">With more than 20 years of experience, Lon Molnar has contributed a vast amount of visual effects&nbsp;to film&nbsp;and television as an artist, VFX supervisor, and former CEO of the award winning VFX company Intelligent Creatures.</span></p><p>Inspired by the magic of Toy Story, Lon attended the Vancouver Film School with the single goal of opening up his own VFX studio. As he built his resume, he became dissatisfied with working on VFX for TV, and set his sights on feature films. He became a VFX generalist, working in animation, lighting, compositing and modelling, while using a vast array of software. After serving as the CG supervisor on the groundbreaking films Chicago and The Cell, he fulfilled his earlier dream and opened up Intelligent Creatures in 2002.&nbsp;</p><p>Working with talented creators like Mark Forster, Darren Aronofsky, Alejandro González Iñárritu, David Tattersall, Oliver Stone and others, Lon quickly built the Toronto-based VFX house into an award-winning studio. Intelligent Creatures lent its creativity to dozens of projects such as Mr and Mrs Smith, The Witch, Curiosity: Battlefield Cell and Babel. They built robust pipelines to tackle critically-acclaimed projects, such as the Watchmen's famous Rorschach mask of moving inkblots,&nbsp;or the clones&nbsp;in Orphan Black.</p><p>Fifteen years after the formation of Intelligent Creatures, Lon recognized that unlike when he had started in the industry, TV was no longer the "lesser" medium for VFX. When he spoke to Jonathan Bronfman, the two found themselves sharing symbiotic ideas. They saw a gap that others didn't. In 2018, the two co-presidents founded Monsters Aliens Robots Zombies with the goal of delivering feature-film quality VFX exclusively to TV series. Over the past year, MARZ has worked many shows including HBO's&nbsp;<em>Watchmen</em>, Amazon Prime's&nbsp;<em>The Boys</em>, as well as Netflix's&nbsp;<em>The Umbrella Academy</em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Living With Yourself</em>.</p>

Lon Molnar

<p>Rui and Leo will demonstrate the importance of realistic figure drawing in storyboarding for motion capture animation. This ability to rapidly create storyboards for animatic presentation helps directors better plan and project their cinematics. All of this is the foundation of standard film structure perspective and layout with the added spice of understanding lens lengths and their importance. Leo will also blow your minds and steal your hearts with his breathtaking concept designs and sketches. This kids for real.</p>

Storyboarding and Concept Art for AAA Video Games

Leo Li

Rui Albino

<p>Leo Li is a concept artist and cinematic illustrator who specializes in video games and film. His initial interest in graphic novel art gave way to illustration and concept design. He has 3 AAA game credits from Ubisoft Toronto including Far Cry Primal, Watchdogs 2 and Watch Dogs Legion. As personal projects, he has big passion on working on his personal graphic novel and participated in several arts and comic book publications. His artistic skills are mainly focus on creating storytelling key art mood pieces, environmental concept art, and character design. Also visual development and storyboard are parts of his job to inspire and support other artists.</p>