Animation Exposé
Saturday, September 24, 2022, in the National Arts Centre
Artist Talks
Get the ultimate animation experience at Animation Exposé! Meet the wizards behind the curtain at the Exposé Talk Series, showcasing artists from your favourite projects, including never-before-seen surprises and tips on a career in animation! Talks take place in the Canada Room of the NAC.
ASL Interpretation will be available at all Artist Talks at Animation Exposé, courtesy of Nickelodeon Animation Studio
10:00am – 11:00am
Netflix Animation Presents: Breaking Into Animation
Speakers: Grazia Como (Manager, Early Career Recruiting, Netflix) and Rynae Lewis (Program Manager, Early Career Animation)
Curious about how to launch your career in animation? Netflix Animation invites you to a can’t-miss presentation that demystifies the unique opportunities across the animation production pipeline with particular emphasis on how to prepare yourself for careers in storyboarding, visual development, and writing. Learn more about how departments work together to create memorable stories and how to develop and showcase your skills to stand out to recruiters.
11:30am – 12:30pm
Sneak Peek: We Lost Our Human
Speakers: Rikke Asbjoern (Creator/Executive Producer), Mani Beil (Line Producer), Chris Garbutt (Creator/Executive Producer)
Moderated by: Phil Lafrance (Creative Director/Co-Founder, Jam Filled)
Ahead of its 2023 release, Creators Chris Garbutt and Rikke Asbjoern and Line Producer Mani Beil will give us a sneak peek of their upcoming Netflix interactive special, We Lost Our Human.
Starring an indoor cat and dog called Pud and Ham, who wake up to find that all humans have disappeared from Earth (including their own!). We Lost Our Human follows the two homebound pets as they venture for the first time into the outside world, desperate to find their owner, and discover strange mysteries, meet bizarre creatures, and maybe – with the audience’s help – save the universe along the way.
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Getting the Gig: Recruiter Roundtable
Speakers: Joe Hughes (Sr. Talent Development Specialist, Warner Bros. Animation & Cartoon Network Studios), Brooke Keesling (Head of Animation Talent Development, Bento Box Entertainment), Christine Luu (Senior Manager, Animation Recruitment, Nickelodeon Animation), Ellen Su (Head of Artistic Recruiting, Titmouse)
Moderated by: Azarin Sohrabkhani (Corporate Events Manager, Netflix)
Your chance to hear from some of the industry’s leading talent recruiters as they share their tips for portfolio reviews, networking, interviewing, interning, and everything else you need to know to get (and keep) your dream gig.
2:30pm – 3:30pm
Superhero Work: Bringing Preschoolers into the Animated Batman Universe
Speakers: Simon J. Smith (Supervising Producer), Michael G. Stern (Showrunner, co-Executive Producer)
They are a team of incredible crimefighters who have banded together to oppose evil, combat crime and clean up the streets of Gotham City. They are…okay, they’re NOT Batman and Robin. They’re the Batwheels – an awesome group of sentient super-powered crime-fighting vehicles defending Gotham City alongside Batman, Robin, and Batgirl.
Join showrunner and co-executive producer Michael G. Stern and supervising producer Simon J. Smith for a behind-the-scenes presentation that takes a look under the hood of the first-ever Batman preschool animated series.
Produced by Warner Bros. Animation, Batwheels is coming soon to Cartoonito on Cartoon Network and Cartoonito on HBO Max.
4:00pm – 5:00pm
A Conversation with Scott Clark of Walt Disney Animation Studios, Vancouver
Speaker: Scott Clark (Head of Animation)
Moderated by: Amil Niazi (Writer/Showrunner, CBC)
Walt Disney Animation Studios Head of Animation Scott Clark will discuss how the new Vancouver studio is building on the legacy of innovative storytelling in animation to create universal stories, imaginative worlds and compelling characters. Amil Niazi, Showrunner of CBC’s Pop Chat podcast, will moderate the conversation.
5:30pm – 6:30pm
Behind-the-Scenes of The Boys Presents: Diabolical
Speakers: Madeleine Flores (Director), Simon Racioppa (Showrunner / Executive Producer), Giancarlo Volpe (Supervising Director),
Moderated by: Ramin Zahed (Editor-in-Chief, Animation Magazine)
Get a behind-the-scenes look at Prime Video’s Emmy-nominated animated anthology series, The Boys Presents: Diabolical. Showrunner Simon Racioppa, Supervising Director Giancarlo Volpe and Director Madeleine Flores will discuss creating the unseen stories from the universe of the Emmy-nominated live-action series The Boys, each episode having its own animation style, working with diverse teams and collaborating remotely.