<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 class="ql-align-justify">Dana Terrace is creator and executive producer of Disney Channel's animated fantasy-comedy series "The Owl House."</p><p class="ql-align-justify">Terrace previously served as a director on Disney's Emmy<sup>®</sup> Award-nominated "DuckTales."</p><p class="ql-align-justify">A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Terrace was featured as one of Variety's "10 Animators to Watch" in 2017 and Animation Magazine's "Rising Stars of Animation" in 2019.</p><p class="ql-align-justify">As a child, Terrace would sneak into the living room to watch cartoons and copied what she saw into flipbooks. She decided to pursue a career in animation when she was 16 and began sharing her work on different forums while in high school. Her art blog gained notice from the creative team behind Disney's "Gravity Falls," with Terrace landing her first job out of college as a storyboard revisionist on the series.</p><p class="ql-align-justify">Born in Hamden, Connecticut, Terrace currently resides in Los Angeles, California.</p>

<p class="ql-align-justify">Dana Terrace is creator and executive producer of Disney Channel's animated fantasy-comedy series "The Owl House."</p><p class="ql-align-justify">Terrace previously served as a director on Disney's Emmy<sup>®</sup> Award-nominated "DuckTales."</p><p class="ql-align-justify">A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Terrace was featured as one of Variety's "10 Animators to Watch" in 2017 and Animation Magazine's "Rising Stars of Animation" in 2019.</p><p><br></p>

Dana Terrace

<p>Carl Beu is a seasoned animation artist with nearly a decade of experience across several studios and projects. Formerly acting as the Color Supervisor on <em>Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles</em>, he is now Design Supervisor on the upcoming <em>Rise </em>movie. Other notable projects include Motorcity, as well as shorts for Metallica, Dark Souls and Assassins Creed.</p>

Carl Beu

<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You loved him on our Willoughbys panel and we’ve brought him back to talk about everything and anything animated.&nbsp;And watch him eat Breakfast with a few of his pals. Turn up your microphones for a buffet of ASMR pleasure, and feel free to eat along with your own breakfast, and spill egg on your moms keyboard. We won't tell. </span></p>

Breakfast with Kris Pearn

Céline Desrumaux

Guillermo Martinez

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;">Kris Pearn was born and raised in Canada.&nbsp;After graduating from Sheridan College, Kris has spent most of his life making cartoons for both film and television.&nbsp;His credits include: Open Season, Surf’s Up, Arthur Christmas, Shawn the Sheep, Pirates: Band of Misfits, and Home to name a few.&nbsp;He was Head of Story on Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs, and co-directed Cloudy Two: Rise of the Leftovers.&nbsp;He has most recently written and directed the Netflix animated feature THE WILLOUGHBYS based on the novel by Lois Lowry.&nbsp;Kris has been nominated for several Annies, has taught at Sheridan College, lectures all over the world through Schoolism, and has given a Ted Talk called “The Optimistic Opportunity of Failure”.&nbsp;He has illustrated several books including: Edward The Tree Climbing Dog, Project Superhero, and Tales of Spiffing.&nbsp;He still loves to draw.&nbsp;</span></p><p><br></p>

Kris Pearn

Simone Giampaolo 

Yowza Animation

<p>Céline Desrumaux is an award-winning production designer. She has worked on numerous projects including <em>Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1, Back to the Moon, Asterix</em>, and <em>Hotel Transylvania 3</em>. Céline was nominated for an Annie Award in 2017 for her production design on <em>The Little Prince</em>. The following year she worked with Google Spotlight Stories and Chromosphere on the John Kahrs directed animated short <em>Age of Sail</em>, for which was awarded both an Emmy and Annie Award in 2019 for her production design. Céline has recently finished as production designer on the acclaimed animated feature <em>Over the Moon</em>, produced by Netflix and Pearl Studio.</p>