<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>Rikke was born in the north of Denmark in 1979. From an early age cartoons and drawing have always been a huge passion of hers, so in 1997 she became one of the youngest students to start at the Animation Workshop in Viborg, Denmark, and then after graduating in 1999 she moved to London to start drawing cartoons for a living!</p><p>Since then she has worked on many different commercials, music videos, short films and feature films, in various roles such as animator, supervising animator, animation director, storyboard artist and co director. The numerous projects include: Tony the Tiger, Coco Pops, 3 Mobile, MTV, Adidas- Impossible Is Nothing, The Tigger Movie, Jungle Book 2, BBC, Monkey Journey to the West with Jamie Hewlett, and the Gorillaz music videos for Passion Pictures.</p><p>In 2007 she started working at Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe in London, writing and directing her own animated TV show ideas, while also helping to develop a number of other projects, including the Cartoon Network show the Amazing World of Gumball.</p><p>She moved to Los Angeles in 2012 to work as a feature Story Artist for DreamWorks Animation, and then joined Nickelodeon Animation, where she created and produced her own short, ‘My Friend, Pancake’. </p><p>Also at Nickelodeon, alongside fellow collaborator Chris Garbutt, she was the Co-Creator, Executive Producer, Show-Runner and Voice Director of the hit Netflix/Nickelodeon animated series, Pinky Malinky, about a positively charged anthropomorphic hotdog sausage!</p><p>Rikke and Chris 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>

Rikke Asbjoern

<p>Paolo Tamburrino is an Executive Producer who currently oversees the Virtual Production and Visual Effects of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds at Pixomondo. </p><p>He is widely regarded as the go-to source on technically demanding projects and client engagement. </p><p>With over 15 years of experience in the Media &amp; Entertainment industry, he was involved in many varied and award-winning projects, where he gained invaluable insight into production and pipelines. He is an alumnus of the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, where his graduating short film “Wrapped” was honored with a VES Award. </p><p>Since then, Paolo has worked in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North America, where he has contributed to projects including “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”, “Foundation”, “The 100”, “Upload”, and numerous commercials. </p><p>Paolo currently serves as a managing board member of the Visual Effect Society in Toronto, board counselor of the Realtime Conference, and member of the Program Advisory Committee for Virtual Production at Humber College.</p>

Paolo Tamburrino

<p>It's opening ONLINE night of Toronto's Animation Industry Conference, and what better way to rub elbows with fellow attendees than by beating the pants off them playing games in TAAFI's own boppin' Discord Server. Join Gamesmaster Quinn and your fellow TAAFI attendees for an evening of gaming fun. We'll be running Jackbox, get ready for something Drawful, a broken-telephone of animation called Gartic Phone, or hop in for some Drink &amp; Draw! 🍺🎨</p><p>There's no wrong choice, except not coming. That's clearly the wrong choice.</p><p>See ya after the amazing We Lost our Human Panel in the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://discord.com/invite/f3kaVvNg6j">🎲TAAFI Discord.</a></p>

Opening Night Networking: Games Night!

Quinn Doherty

<p>A graduate of Centennial College’s Children’s Media Program, Quinn has spent many years volunteering at TAAFI and has joined as official STAAFI in 2021. He has a great love of animation and in particular the writing and production side of the industry while also keeping his visual arts skills strong. When he isn’t assisting the social media or organizing community game nights you can find him pondering life’s great questions or watching silly internet videos, y’know one of the two.</p>