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KABOOOOOM!!!!
Sat, Nov 21st
6:30PM - 7:30PM
Online
Thanks to the Covid lockdown, nothing keeps us happy like watching things blow up and burn to the ground. That's largely thanks to FX artists like Olivier Malric, Mark Theriaul, and Sylvie Trouve. This electric group, moderated by Ryan Adams head of 2D FX at Jam Filled will shoot the breeze about different styles of FX. Be it 2D, 3D or stop motion - what do they have in common, and when can we watch something else go boom?
Mark Theriault, VFX Supervisor, Tangent Animation
Mark Theriault is a VFX Supervisor at Tangent Animation. He is currently running an unnamed animated series for Netflix Animation.
Graduating from Columbia College Chicago with a BFA in Film, Mark started his career working for advertising agencies in Chicago. After his move to Visual FX, he has accumulated a broad spectrum of industry experience, such as on-set work, feature animation, video game cinematics, TV, and feature films.
Prior to becoming the VFX Supervisor at Tangent Animation, he was FX Supervisor at Animal Logic on The LEGO Movie Sequel, Mark has worked with ILM, Image Engine, DreamWorks Animation, Prime Focus, and Blur Studios. Some of Mark's credits include: Star Wars – Force Awakens, Warcraft, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Chappie, TRON Legacy, Peabody & Sherman, Halo, and Bioshock.
Olivier Malric, FX Lead Animator, Freelance FX Artist
Olivier graduated from the Gobelins school of animation, France, in 1991. His mind was already set on Effects animation (Akira, and the work of ILM might have played a part) His first job was at Ellipse studio, on Tintin's adventures Series, as an FX designer. When an opportunity came up with the newly founded DreamWorks animation studio in L.A., Olivier joined the FX team working on 2D features, from Prince of Egypt to Sinbad.
His resume includes various TV series, features, commercials and short movies for a variety of clients - Nickelodeon, Sony, the Line, Sun Creatures, Je Suis Bien Content, Samka, DreamWorks Tv, and others.
He now resides in Australia.
Ryan Adams, FX Supervisor, Jam Filled Entertainment
A 2D FX Supervisor/Animator/Designer/Instructor with 10 years of industry experience. With a heavy focus on Toon Boom’s Harmony software, Ryan has provided FX talent towards shows from Wild Kratts to Final Space to Paw Patrol. Starting at 9Story (Currently Brown Bag) where he spent 8 years, eventually ending up as FX Supervisor at Jam Filled Entertainment in Toronto.
Sylvie Trouvé, Director & Stop-Motion Animator, See Creature Animation
Sylvie Trouvé is a professional filmmaker and stop motion animator with a background in photography. Throughout her 20 years of experience in animation she has worked on a wide range of productions creating educational content for documentaries, series work, music videos, feature films such as The Little Prince to commercials for Nike and Lego. Her short films Orange and Reflections produced by the National Film Board have screened at prestigious international film festivals and in public spaces such as galleries and airports. Since 2011 she owns See Creature Animation with her husband Dale Hayward and their latest award winning stop-motion short Bone Mother is a dark, folkloric tale produced by the NFB. Driven to foster the local and international stop-motion community in order to create bigger and better projects they started an online education platform called See-Learn in 2020.
