<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>Daniel Whiteson is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, and a fellow of the American Physical Society. He earned his PhD in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley and is an active researcher, using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to search for exotic new particles.</p>

Daniel Whiteson

<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

<p>From Startup to Success — Stories from Studio Founders</p><p>For many of us, starting a studio and ‘hanging our own shingle’ is the ultimate dream. Becoming your own boss, hiring your friends and co-workers, and striking out on your own. It’s all very exciting, but where do you start? How do you build not just the studio itself, but the client base? How much does it cost and what are the pitfalls?</p><p>Join a panel of studio founders as we engage in a lively discussion of starting your own studio — from start-up to success — as we explore the pathways and pitfalls of building a studio, along with the new opportunities or challenges that face budding studio entrepreneurs.</p>

Ben McEvoy

Starting a Studio: Presented by CASO

Darren Cranford

Ella Cooper

Jonathan Corbiere

Ricardo Curtis

Caso

<p>Darren Cranford is Co-Owner and Director of Keyframe Digital, as well as Krow VFX. The studio has been operating in the animation and movie business for over 25 years and has done work for all major Production studios, such as Universal, 20th Century Fox, Disney, Netflix, and Amazon Prime. Darren is a member of the Director's Guild of Canada, the Visual Effect Society, and an active member of CASO. He has directed and Supervised hundreds of series - from Directing Ollie: The Boy Who Became What He Ate, and Hilarious House of Frightenstein, to overseeing the VFX of their studio for shows like The Expanse (all seasons). Keyframe Digital and Krow VFX have been known for movies, such as X-Men, Zombieland, and many others, as well as series shows, such as Expanse, Altered Carbon, What We do in the Shadows, and Jack Reacher: The Series. &nbsp;</p><p>Krow VFX is currently working on Chucky Season 2, Hilarious House of Frightenstein Season 2, and a plethora of other unmentionable movies and series shows.&nbsp;</p>