<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>Steve Wolfhard is a cartoonist and animator living in Los Angeles. He has storyboarded on Adventure Time, Over the Garden Wall, Summer Camp Island, Big City Greens, and Amphibia. He currently works as a post director at Disney TV.</p>

Steve Wolfhard

<p>Look Mom! Productions discovered Stephen buried beneath the sands in the Valley of the Kings. Despite local tales of a curse they broke open his tomb and now they're stuck with him. As head of studio at Look Mom! Stephen brings 20 years of animation experience to the job of coordinating the in house artists and addressing the creative needs of any current productions. Stephen also helps to guide the creative output of the studio alongside the rest of the executive team.&nbsp;</p>

Stephen Sloan

<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>Simone Giampaolo is a London-based director and animator with an insatiable appetite for storytelling. In 2013 he graduated with Distinction from the BA (Hons) Computer Animation Arts course at the National Centre for Computer Animation in Bournemouth (UK). Between 2014 and 2018 Simone worked as animation director and CG generalist in the commercial department at Blue-Zoo Animation on a multitude of projects for clients such as Cartoon Network, Disney, LEGO, Nickelodeon, Marvel, Lucasfilm and BBC. After finishing crafting a mini-series at Jellyfish Pictures in 2019, he’s been directing several commissioned films at Aardman Animations (which is representing him as short-form director).&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>