<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><span>Since 2016, Cara Bleskie has been an instrumental member of Nelvana’s development department. Cara is dedicated to identifying and fostering the growth of up-and-coming creative talent and partnerships. She is a founder of the Nelvana U program and helped launch the Talent Incubator: Black Write Edition.</span></p>

Cara Bleskie

<p>Chris works in the animation industry for TV, features and commercials, enjoying various roles from creating, show-running, executive producing, writing, directing and art directing, to storyboarding, character design and background design. He has worked on such animated projects as the Gorillaz, the Amazing World of Gumball, the Mr Bean Animated Series, Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends, Robotboy and Stressed Eric.  </p><p>Alongside fellow collaborator, Rikke Asbjoern, he was the Co-Creator, Executive Producer, Show-Runner and Art Director of the hit Netflix/Nickelodeon animated series, Pinky Malinky, about a positively charged anthropomorphic hotdog sausage!</p><p>Chris and Rikke have just finished producing We Lost Our Human, a brand new epic interactive special for Netflix, which will air early 2023. It’s about an indoor cat and dog who wake up to find that all humans have disappeared from Earth, including their own! Desperate to find their owner, these two homebound pets venture for the first time into outside world and discover strange mysteries, meet bizarre creatures, and maybe – with the audience’s help – save the universe along the way. </p><p>Originally from Yorkshire in the north of England, Chris lives in sunny Los Angeles, and has also worked in London and Paris since graduating with a First Class degree in Graphic Arts and Illustration, from a slightly less sunny Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK.  </p><p>Chris has a passion for comics and storytelling! He loves creating new worlds and characters that often begin life as silly doodles on post-it notes. He also works extensively in the world of illustration, and his scribbles have adorned a variety of media across advertising, online, apps, books, comics and food packaging.</p><p>Chris’ clients include Aardman Animations, Capstone Publishing, Cartoon Network, Disney, Dreamworks, JibJab Media, Macmillan Children’s Books, Netflix, Nickelodeon, Rebellion, Scholastic, Titan Publishing Group and Walker Books. </p>

Chris Garbutt

<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>

Thalia Lemon

Painting a Universe: Exploring the Look of Entergalactic

Archie Donato

Chris Gooch

Chrissy Metge

Kapil Sharma

<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>