<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>Shannon Bishop works as part of the eOne Family &amp; Brands team as manager, creative affairs. She is responsible for acquiring new content and managing projects in active development. eOne Family’s current slate of programs include “Peppa Pig”, “PJ Masks”, “Ricky Zoom” and “Cupcake and Dino”.</p>

Shannon Bishop

<p>Rui Albino started his career as a computer graphics artist at CBC in 1989. After a one year contract ended, Rui moved on to work for a series of video game companies. In 1992, he started a long career at Nelvana as a revision artist, designer and then storyboard artist. Rui has worked for over 15 studios through his career before becoming a partial load professor at Seneca, Humber and Georgian College. In 2016 Rui was honoured to storyboard for Ubisoft Toronto and then was hired on permanently where he has found his home. Rui now storyboards for animation and live action feature for motion capture. He has been blessed to work with feature film directors extending his skills and knowledge to reflect live action storyboarding.</p>

Rui Albino

<p><span style="background-color: transparent;">This past year saw the debut of The Most Magnificent Thing, a family classic transformed into one of the most beautiful shorts by the team at Nelvana.&nbsp;Join the team from Nelvana as they talk about transforming this Kids Can Press book by Ashley Spires into an animated short and taking it on the road to various festivals around the world.</span></p>

BTS: The Most Magnificent Thing

Ashley Spires

Ross Maudsley

Yaleh Paxton-Harding

Corus

<p>Ross Maudsley is an engineering graduate from the University of Waterloo who found his way into video post and ultimately CG production inspired by some of the field’s earliest innovators.&nbsp;Ross started in the field of broadcast and commercial graphics for such high profile clients as ABC News and Sports.&nbsp;He made his move into the field of long format storytelling when he joined Nelvana to help launch the series Rolie Polie Olie, one of the earliest examples of a CG series for television.&nbsp;Ross’s specialty is as a facilitator of artists, providing them with the tools, environment and workflow design to bring out their best work.&nbsp;</p>