<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>Stephanie Yelovich is a dynamic and multi-faceted perfomer having begun her career in theatre and opera and is currently making a natural transition into the world of voice, film and tv.</p><p>Since the age of 8 she has performed in theatres and opera houses all over Canada and Europe but now spends most of her time in front of the camera, experimenting with sounds in her studio as well as in the booth!</p><p>With a special passion for singing, sound, music and voice work, Stephanie is in the process of creating and producing an album of experimental vocal music. She also teaches voice work and helps her clients and students to find and express their true voice and find vocal freedom. Stephanie is the co-owner of The Infinity Forge in Hamilton, ON: a creative media arts and recording studio for everyone.</p><p>Stephanie acted in and co-produced the short film Beat Nick, directed and shot by Michael Penny, that won 1st place in the 2019 Hamilton Film Festival Competition and also voiced the epic boss-lady Trixie Clementine in The Adventures of the Starship Coconut Podcast (Frequency Podcasts). She also had the privilege of lending her voice to two Seneca College Final Animation projects-Half of the Way and Long After Us (2021).&nbsp;</p><p>From the ages of 8-18, Stephanie trained in acting, dance, and voice at the Theatre Aquarius Performing Arts Programme and later became an instructor there for over 10 years. She then continued on to teach for Zamprogna Arts and now teaches The Art of the Self Tape and voice work regularly in her studio and on zoom.</p><p><br></p><p>Stephanie is classically trained in voice and holds a BMus in Voice Performance and an Opera Diploma from Wilfrid Laurier University.</p><p>With many concepts and projects on the horizon, and with the expansion of the studio, she is looking forward to sharing her natural gifts and talents with the rest of the world.</p>

Stephanie Yelovich

<p>Sergio Martins is an animation supervisor at The SPA Studios, the studio behind <em>KLAUS</em>. Sergio has over 15 years of animation experience, launching his career as a freelance animator for commercials, TV shows and music videos. He also had the opportunity to co-direct the animated short, <em>Poet Anderson: The Dreamwalker</em>, alongside his twin brother, Edgar Martins, and Blink-182 frontman Tom Delonge.</p>

<p><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">Sergio Martins is an animation supervisor at The SPA Studios, the studio behind </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">KLAUS</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">. Sergio has over 15 years of animation experience, launching his career as a freelance animator for commercials, TV shows and music videos. He also had the opportunity to co-direct the animated short, </span><em style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">Poet Anderson: The Dreamwalker</em><span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.04);">, alongside his twin brother, Edgar Martins, and Blink-182 frontman Tom Delonge.</span></p>

Sergio Martins

<p>Learn the latest from the folks that are on the cutting edge of the animation industry. Whether it's Virtual Production and animation with&nbsp;Motion Capture,&nbsp;Animation for Virtual Reality theme park rides/experiences or Animation for Metaverse development we've got that and more!</p>

Emerging Tech in Animation

<p>Dan Fill is the president and co-founder of Dark Slope Studios - a metaverse and virtual production company that specializes in games and television production.</p><p>In this role Dan spearheads the development of innovative projects ranging from fully immersive theme park rides and spectacles, to cutting edge television programs that combine world class animation, motion tracking and a real time game engine pipeline. Dark Slope develops original intellectual properties as well as service production.&nbsp;Recent partners clients include: NBC Peacock, Nickelodeon, WildBrain, Insight Productions, AT&amp;T, TVOntario, eOne’s Secret Location, Zero Latency, Hologate and Magic Leap.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Prior to his current role, Dan was the&nbsp;head of multiplatform for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, where he was named the top&nbsp;Digital Innovator by The Australian for his role in commissioning the country’s most popular video streaming service (iView). iView now accounts for over 900 million streams a year in Australia. Previous to ABC, Dan was the former vice president interactive of Decode Entertainment (now WildBrain). In this role, he built an award-winning internal studio producing games and immersive experiences for a global audience.</p><p>Dan is a seasoned presenter having spoken at the Banff World Media Festival (Canada), MIPCOM ( France), XMedia Labs (Singapore),&nbsp;Xmedia Labs (Melbourne) and Xmedia (Sydney), Game Developers Conference (San Francisco and San Diego), Kidscreen (New York), Asia Animation Summit (Kuala Lumpur), Kidscreen (Miami) as well as TAAFI Animation Festival (Toronto).&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Dan is a co-founder of the production company Chocolate Liberation Front and a major shareholder of education and simulation company Lumeto.&nbsp;</p>

Dan Fill

<p>Grayden Laing is a St. Thomas based artist, animator, and filmmaker who has a passion for creating artwork that leads viewers to a more nuanced perception of the world around them. Grayden’s artwork is informed by the visual communication paradigms of social media as well as the iconoclastic works of early 20th century French artists.</p><p>In the broadcast world, Grayden has done work for the W Network, Travel + Escape, CHCH, Vision TV, Investigation Discovery, and the History Channel. He was the director of photography and colourist for the History TV series <em>War Story: Afgahnistan</em>, which won a Canadian Screen Award for the Best History Documentary Program or Series. When the pandemic hit, Grayden switched from filming for <em>War Story</em> to being the lead digital artist pioneering a technique to colourize black and white WWII footage for <em>War Story: Fight to the Finish</em>, which was nominated in 2021 for Best History Documentary Program or Series.</p><p>Grayden currently maintains an art studio in St. Thomas, ON, where he paints, teaches, works on film projects, and runs Establish Media.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

Grayden Laing

<p>For over 20 years Joe Raasch has been the coordinator of Seneca College's visual effects program and a visual effects artist.&nbsp;He has made training for Foundry, organized several Nuke user group meetings, served on the board for TAAFI and the Toronto chapter of the Visual Effects Society and most recently completed the Unreal Fellowship for Virtual Production.</p>

Joe Raasch

<p>Shishir 'S' Pande (Bachelor of Engineering, McMaster University, 2014) is the CEO of EXAR Studios and has a background in business strategy, marketing, and engineering. He has a track record of innovation and community focus proven by his past entrepreneurial successes and achievement of the London Inc. Top 20 Under 40 Award in 2020.</p><p>EXAR Studios is a digital creative tech company whose mission is to develop extended reality (XR) technology that allows destinations all over the world to bring engaging cultural content to users on location.&nbsp;</p><p>We deepen the experience of exploring the world by providing arts, history, and culture experiences to people who travel globally or locally. We work with local experts to create the most culturally authentic content we can while providing entertaining storytelling to the world.</p>