<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>Carlie is the senior lighting and compositing lead on <em>Maya and the Three</em>.&nbsp;She has focused her career on telling stories with light and colour and strives to bring the beauty of film and the natural world to animation.</p>

<p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">Carlie is the senior lighting and compositing lead on </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">Maya and the Three</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">.&nbsp;She has focused her career on telling stories with light and colour and strives to bring the beauty of film and the natural world to animation.</span></p>

Carlie Lytwyn

<p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Born in the tropical island paradise of Jamaica, but raised in the diverse melting pot of Ontario Canada.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As a child Chris quickly became enthralled with saturday morning cartoons, with his eyes and ears locked on the tv screen. Those shows would spark with in him the desire to one day join the ranks of those Iconic voices that entertained a generation.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">With years of singing off key in a pentecostal church. He eventually developed an impressive vocal range that would lay the ground work for the many character voices he has created but also blessed with a voice bursting with soul.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Chris has had the pleasure of working on Award winning film and other diverse projects. Ranging from Commercial, Narration, Animation, Corporate, ADR and more.</span></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">With this unique work exposure. it has allowed him to bring a level of focus, drive and specific acting techniques to help breathe life into the projects of his clients.</span></p>

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;">Born in the tropical island paradise of Jamaica, but raised in the diverse melting pot of Ontario Canada.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;">As a child Chris quickly became enthralled with saturday morning cartoons, with his eyes and ears locked on the tv screen. Those shows would spark with in him the desire to one day join the ranks of those Iconic voices that entertained a generation.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;">With years of singing off key in a pentecostal church. He eventually developed an impressive vocal range that would lay the ground work for the many character voices he has created but also blessed with a voice bursting with soul.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;">Chris has had the pleasure of working on Award winning film and other diverse projects. Ranging from Commercial, Narration, Animation, Corporate, ADR and more.</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent;">With this unique work exposure. it has allowed him to bring a level of focus, drive and specific acting techniques to help breathe life into the projects of his clients.</span></p>

Chris McPherson

<p>Directing is challenging enough in normal times, but how do you lead a creative team during the work-from-home times of the pandemic? What tips or tricks are they using? How do they keep crews motivated? How do they keep in touch with their team? What works and what didn't? </p>

<p>Directing is challenging enough in normal times, but how do you lead a creative team during the work-from-home times of the pandemic? What tips or tricks are they using? How do they keep crews motivated? How do they keep in touch with their team? What works and what didn't?</p>

Directing During a Pandemic

Barnabas Wornoff

<p>Cory Bobiak is a Toronto-based director and artist with an extensive list of television, design and artistic achievements. Cory has worked in both children’s and adult television programs ranging from the Emmy award-winning <em>Peg + Cat</em>, to Comedy Central’s <em>Ugly Americans</em>. He has animated, designed and storyboarded on numerous series including <em>Mucha Lucha, Jimmy Two Shoes, Rick &amp; Steve –The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World,</em> <em>Ugly Americans</em>, <em>Wibbly Pig</em>, and <em>Peep and the Big Wide World</em>.&nbsp;</p><p>Cory's directing credits include <em>Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum, Peg + Cat</em>, and <em>Ugly Americans</em>. Cory is currently creative director at Brown Bag Films Toronto and is responsible for overseeing creative direction within the Toronto studio.</p><p>Cory lives in Hamilton with his wife Sandra and their two children, Frankie and Rudy.</p>

Cory Bobiak 

<p>Lisa Whittick has spent the bulk of her 22 years in animation as a freelance storyboard artist, a position which has allowed her to work from home and raise her 3 kids without giving up the career she loves. She has always aspired to be a director, but directing seemed like an impossible goal given the in-studio hours required to do the job right. Not wanting to give up her family life so she could chase her goal, Lisa resigned herself to the fact that directing wasn't in the cards. But then along came Covid, the right project and people who were willing to give her a chance and everything changed.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>