<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>Ray graduated from Ottawa's Algonquin College animation program in 1999.  He began working as a traditional key animator on children's television series such as "Tales From The Cryptkeeper", and "Franklin The Turtle".  In 2003, he started his career as a digital animator.  He continued to work on kids shows such as "Carl Squared" and "The Cat In Ihe Hat".  In the span of a decade, he had worked for half a dozen studios in Ottawa. producing work as a character designer, and traditional and digital animator.  In 2011, he joined Jam Filled Entertainment as a character animator working on "Camp Lakebottom".  He started work as an animation supervisor for Jam Filled in 2015 on "The Loud House", and continued to supervise until 2019.  At this time, he became an animation director for Jam Filled.  His has directed on "Final Space", "The Casagrandes", and is currently working on "Clone High".</p><p>Ray is a graduate from Ottawa's Algonquin College.  He started work as a traditional key animator, then as a digital animator on children's television series.  He is currently an animation director at Jam Filled Entertainment, having worked on "Final Space", "The Casagrandes" and "Clone High".</p>

Ray Ocampo

<p>Ricardo Curtis is one of the animation industry’s most successful professionals, and has played a pivotal role in the production of over 20 successful feature films.</p><p>Jamaican born and Toronto native, Curtis relocated to Los Angeles after graduating from Sheridan College’s Classical Animation Program. Working with Pixar, DreamWorks Animation Studios, Fox and Warner Bros, he contributed to a number of projects as a story artist (The Incredibles, Monsters Inc.), Head of Story </p><p>(Book of Life, Horton Hears A Who), Supervising Animator (Osmosis Jones) and was an animator and designer on The Iron Giant. </p><p>Curtis returned to Canada in 2004 to launch House of Cool with Wesley Lui. As Co-Founder and Creative Director, his keen eye for talent and artistry have cultivated long-term relationships with Dreamworks, Netflix, Disney, 20th Century Fox, Paramount, Universal and Apple.</p><p>Curtis has developed and sold properties to Disney, Bravo!, DHX and Teletoon, earning accolades at MIPCOM for his work. He has produced, written and directed </p><p>short films, pilots, television series, specials, a novel and commercials. Curtis is a member of Sheridan College’s board that sets the educational curriculum, as well as a member of the Academy of  Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.</p><p>Most recently Ricardo directed Ice Age: The Great Eggscapade for Fox/Blue Sky Studios and Masters of the Universe for Mattel.  Curtis has written and is slated to direct an original House of Cool property currently titled Amoeba and the upcoming Clive Barker film, Night of the Zoopocalypse.</p>

Ricardo Curtis

<p>Watch the two finalists of TAAFI's Big Pitch go head to head in front of three Industry judges. The winner takes it all in this exciting live pitching event (plus a cash prize!). If you want to have a shot, submit your pitch in the link on our Industry home page. Or email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:bigpitch@taafi.com">bigpitch@taafi.com</a></p><p style="text-align: start">The Big Pitch is brought to you by WildBrain.</p>

<p>Watch the two finalists of TAAFI's Big Pitch go head to head in front of three Industry judges. The winner takes it all in this exciting live pitching event (plus a cash prize!). If you want to have a shot, submit your pitch in the link on our Industry home page. Or email <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="mailto:bigpitch@taafi.com">bigpitch@taafi.com</a></p><p style="text-align: start">The Big Pitch is brought to you by WildBrain. </p>

Ben McEvoy

The Big Pitch presented by WildBrain

Athena Georgaklis

James R. Backshall

Lorna Withrington

Rajan Kapila

WildBrain 

<p>Rajan Kapila has been working in the animation industry for the past 10 years and has enjoyed every part of it. He has had the great joy of working on some incredible projects such as Angry Birds: Summer Madness, Nature Cat, Care Bears: Unlock the Magic, Give a Mouse a Cookie, and many, many, more. Over his time in the Animation Industry, he has been able to experience many aspects of the production pipeline that he feels has been a great influence whenever working on various projects. Currently working as a location designer and before that a storyboard artist, he has always been a storyteller and believes that working in Animation is his true calling. Rajan said "I am here to inspire, educate, and entertain through my stories" and it is with honour that he has come to TAAFI's Big Pitch competition "to present my stories to the world and discover a platform to showcase a truly entertaining and inspiring story for the world to see."</p>