<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>Join DNEG Animation's creative team behind Entergalactic for a project overview and panel discussion on how they achieved this project's incredibly stylized look by bending the rules of the CG animation pipeline. </p>

<p>New to the behind the scenes of TAAFI, Thalia is a 10 year industry veteran with a passionate enthusiasm for all things cartoon, and a resume that includes the Willoughby's, Addams Family 2, My Little Pony the Movie, and various TV productions. When this west coast transplant isn't storyboarding, you can find her live-streaming on Twitch (DrawsforFun), or trying to fix her terrible posture.</p>

Thalia Lemon

Painting a Universe: Exploring the Look of Entergalactic

<p>Archie Donato is a talented VFX Supervisor with over 25 years of experience in visual effects for feature film, episodic content and feature animation. He is the VFX Supervisor for the Netflix series ‘Entergalactic’.  He brings a wealth of artistic and technical experience to the role of VFX Supervisor for DNEG Animation, having crafted his career at companies such as ILM, Technicolor, Rhythm and Hues and Digital Domain, including 17 years at DreamWorks Animation. </p><p>During his time at DreamWorks, Archie contributed to many of the studio’s biggest films, most notably as CG Lead on ‘Kung Fu Panda’, ‘Megamind’, ‘Monsters vs. Aliens’ and ‘Shrek Forever After’, before his promotion to Lighting Supervisor on ‘Rise of the Guardians’ and CG Supervisor for ‘Mr. Peabody &amp; Sherman’.</p><p>After leaving DreamWorks, Archie turned his talents to the supervision of VFX for episodic content, including work on shows such as ‘Home Before Dark’ for Apple TV+, ‘Messiah’ for Netflix and ‘The Loudest Voice’ for Showtime.</p><p>Archie originally comes from a traditional film background. As a film school graduate he began his career working on camera crews for features, TV, commercials and music videos before becoming a visual effects artist in the late nineties. Following his first gig as a camera tracker on Roland Emmerich’s ‘Godzilla’, Archie went on to become a VFX artist, contributing to shows such as ‘Star Wars: Episode II’, ‘Stuart Little’, ‘Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines’ and ‘Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius’.  </p>

Archie Donato

<p>Chris Gooch is the Head of the Compositing Department at DNEG Animation. He has 15 years of experience, working in roles from comp artist to 2D supervisor on projects including ‘World War Z’, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’, Disney's ‘The Jungle Book’, ‘Greyhound’, ‘Fast Furious 9’ and many more.</p><p>Chris moved into the Head of Compositing role after comp supervising DNEG Animation’s latest project ‘Entergalactic’. He oversaw a large multisite team of compositors to achieve a very challenging look.</p>

Chris Gooch

<p>Chrissy Metge is an Executive Producer at DNEG Animation and has been in the Animation film and TV industry for over 20 years.  Starting out as an animator, Chrissy followed a natural path into production where her fascination for solving puzzles, building relationships, storytelling and love of filmmaking grew. Some of Chrissy's credits include 'Iron Man 3', 'The Hobbit Trilogy', 'The Jungle Book' and 'Ron's Gone Wrong'. Most recently, she was the Digital Producer on 'Entergalactic'.</p><p>Chrissy is also an author and publisher with a great eye for quality stories, illustration and applying big imaginations. One of Chrissy's favourite things is following the script to screen and the whole process in-between.</p>

Chrissy Metge

<p>Kapil Sharma is an Animation Director at DNEG Animation with his most recent work being the highly anticipated Netflix television event, ‘Entergalactic’. He is also the Animation Director on the upcoming feature film, ‘That Christmas’. He served as Animation Supervisor on ‘Ron’s Gone Wrong’, helming the development of the show’s main character, Barney. Since joining DNEG in 2017 as an Animation Lead, Kapil has been involved in building the animation team, while helping to fine-tune the rigging and animation pipeline. Prior to joining DNEG, he worked with DreamWorks Animation’s India unit on movies such as ‘Trolls’, ‘Penguins of Madagascar’ and ‘Madagascar 3’. He has also lent his skills to the ‘Shrek’ and ‘Madagascar’ shorts and the ‘Kung Fu Panda’ ride.</p>

Kapil Sharma

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0)">Former storyboarding supervisor now Head of Training from a world leader in Storyboarding at studio House of Cool, Drew Ng brings his extensive knowledge to TAAFIxINDUSTRY this year. On top of learning how HOC has carved a niche for themselves, you will learn how to translate script to panels in this 90 minute workshop.</span></p>

Storyboarding Masterclass

<p>Drew Ng studied at the internationally acclaimed Sheridan College in the early 1990’s, and is a 20+ year veteran as a Storyboard Artist and Supervisor on dozens of projects. Some of the productions he was involved with include Cube Zero, Jonah Hex and Dragons - Race to the Edge.</p><p>After many years on the front lines, Ng is now using his story experience to institute the Education, Recruitment and Training department to support the many productions at House of Cool.</p><p>Drew was integral to the development and execution of House of Cool’s first 6 week Storyboard Workshop classes, along with the creation of a full time Storyboard Program at Ecole Cartoucherie Animation Solidaire (ECAS), located in Bourg-Les-Valence, France, in partnership with TeamTO and the French government. Through these inaugural education programs, and in addition to House of Cool’s own internal training for new hires, Ng is able to leverage the studios expertise in pre-production to educate and upskill the next generation of storytellers.</p><p>Drew also brings a unique insight to the recruitment department with his decades of experience and finely trained artist eye.  He encourages creativity and strong technical skills among House of Cool artists and employs the philosophy that if you provide artists with the tools they need, they will succeed beyond expectation.</p>

Drew Ng

Sheridan College

<p>This year, Cuphead made the jump from your video game console to your Netflix watchlist! Lighthouse Studios was given the challenge of adapting these beloved characters to a new medium, keeping intact the game's Fleischer Brothers-inspired rubber hose animation style. Join Animation Supervisor Andy Stevens and Assistant Director Paul Madden for a deep dive into how they brought Cuphead and Mugman to life in a whole new way on The Cuphead Show!</p>

Behind the Scenes of The Cuphead Show!

<p>Andy Stevens is an animator and supervisor at Lighthouse Studios in Kilkenny, Ireland. Originally from the Leeds in the UK, Andy has been at Lighthouse since its first project Bug Diaries and has assisted in various roles across the studio's different productions, including supervising character animation on the Bob's Burgers Movie and The Cuphead Show! </p>

Andy Stevens

<p>Paul Madden is the assistant director on The Cuphead Show! with over 14 years of experience in children's animated television, working his way through animation, compositing, and up to episodic director and most recently as assistant director on The Cuphead Show!. Paul has been involved in every step of the pipeline from script to offline and love learning about what everyone does on a production. He's had the pleasure of working with really talented people from all over the world to make the best shows they can. Paul enjoys the technical and creative challenges that are thrown his way on every production in trying to make the big visual story moments come to life.</p>

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Toronto Animation Film Festival

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Toronto Animation / VFX Job Fair

Behind the Scenes of The Cuphead Show!

Andy Stevens, Animation Supervisor, Lighthouse Studios

Paul Madden, Assistant Director, The Cuphead Shows!, Lighthouse Studios