<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>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>Jonathan Corbiere is CEO of Thought Café, an award-winning motion graphic studio that promotes social justice, self-education and critical awareness. Thought Café creates animated shorts that break down issues, visualize important concepts, and explain and deliver messages for NGOs, other not-for-profits and charities, politicians, great thinkers, writers, and anyone else who has an important message or concept to share with the world. We believe that motion graphics are the perfect medium through which to educate the world online, inspire conversation around current issues, and raise critical awareness.</p><p>Jonathan is an experienced entrepreneur working in film, gaming, and Web3 technologies and is also launching the studio Degenerative Labs.</p>

Jonathan Corbiere

<p>It's 3am. You're mindlessly swiping through TikTok. Suddenly, you stop. Your swiping finger frozen as you stare, eyes wide, transfixed to the screen. Your brain has been hacked. Your dopamine center has been hijacked by short-form animated comedy videos in a vertical format. </p><p>Three animators (identities withheld) have agreed to meet with us to reveal the secret comedy tools they employ to psycho-engineer you into laughing and crying and liking and sharing. </p>

Spencer Moreland

The Dark Secrets of Vertical Videos!! Not Clickbait!

Christina Fidler

Joe Cappa

Lindsey DeMars

<p>Joe Cappa is an director &amp; animator currently residing in Portland, Oregon. His animated short 'Ghost Dogs' was a 2021 Sundance selection and won the Satoshi Kon Award at Fantasia. Cappa has gone on to make original content for Bento Box, Adult Swim, and Meow Wolf using 2D animation, stop motion, and paper mache costumes.  You can also check out his short animated videos on instagram @joecappa. </p>