TISAF Winners job-shadow at Nelvana

Jacob Whyte from Fenelon Falls S.S. and Alex Woolacoot of Peel Alternative School South, 1st and 2nd Place winners respectively in the 2D Narrative category, spent a great day getting tips from the pros at Nelvana’s new studios near the harbourfront in Toronto. Jacob’s entry Whiteout which won him 1st Place for the 2nd year in a row (Lost, 2009) and Alex’s BUNN earned them the trip to the majors for a day.

Jacob Whyte had this to say about his visit …
Seeing first hand Nelvana’s new studio was a great experience. The building itself is a piece of art with every new age, high tech design you would expect from such a new structure. The creativity in the new building reflects the people inside, as looking around I saw no shortage of drawings, animation clips, or scripts being worked on. It was really interesting to see professionals in the field at work; defiantly helps make that decision of if you want to make animation a career (which, in my case, would be a dream come true). All the people we talked to were very laid back and relaxed yet full of initiative. Not only did they talk about their jobs and how they got to where they are, but they were very interested in us, what we were working on and what our plans were, and gave us some great words of wisdom in response. I couldn’t have been happier with the visit, and who knows, maybe with some hard work, perseverance and luck, I could be sitting on one of those desk spaces.

Max the Mutt Animation School Award 2010

Congratulations Alex !
Alex Woolacoot from Peel Alternative School South, one of the winners of the 2D Narrative category at the 2010 festival for his animation “BUNN”, has been awarded the Max the Mutt Animation School Student Animation Festival Award for the 2010/11 school year, valued at approximately $9000.

The award / scholarship is for year one to Max the Mutt Animation School and does not hold a cash value in exchange for the scholarship placement in the program. The winning candidate, this year from the 2D Narrative category, will need to meet all requirements for entrance into Max the Mutt Animation School click here and provide a written letter from the Student Animation Festival director that they have won the award.

Sheridan Institute Stop Motion Workshop

2010 TISAF Winners in the Stop-motion category to visit the Sheridan Institute of Technology stop-motion lab in Oakville for a personal workshop in creating stopmotion animation.

Christine Le, Devjoy Roy, Katrina Kalev and Kim Smith for their animation “Fred’s Fail” along with their teacher Peggy Reid from Mayfield S.S. …

TISAF Winner tours Starz Animation in Toronto

Alexander Marttinen from Humberview S.S., creator of “Army Man”  that won 1st Place in the 3D category at TISAF 2010, spends the day touring Starz Animation’ studios in Toronto.