Karen Jackson Takes the Reins as Barnabas Wornoff Steps Down as TAAFI Chair
Long-time board member assumes leadership in wake of the organization co-founder’s departure; Matthew Celestial named Treasurer, overseeing day-to-day operations.
Long-time board member assumes leadership in wake of the organization co-founder’s departure; Matthew Celestial named Treasurer, overseeing day-to-day operations.
Babita Jassal has been promoted to VP of People and Culture, and Hetal Shah joins as senior talent acquisition specialist; staff additions come as the company seeks new creative talent to work across a range of 2D and 3D projects.
Co-executive producer Jeff Ranjo and production designer Paul Sullivan share how creator Jorge R. Gutiérrez’s unique vision, where Rankin and Bass meet ‘The Lord of the Rings,’ served as their guide in developing and producing the epic worlds and characters of Netflix’s 9-chapter tale of a Mesoamerican warrior princess and her quest to save humanity.
The creative team shares insights into their exciting, funny, and gorgeously designed 9-part CG animated series about a Mesoamerican-inspired warrior princess’ epic quest to fulfill an ancient prophecy and save humanity, now playing on Netflix.
Venerable VFX, animation, and virtual production studio bolsters its feature animation team with return of two long-time company veterans.
Tangent Labs co-founder Jeff Bell shares how their platform integrates asset management, production and task management, review and collaboration, sketching, draw overs, and note taking to enable transparent, accessible, and innovative animation and VFX creativity.
2020 Programming strategy and COVID-19 moves the 2020 TAAFI Animation Industry Conference online from November 6-8.
Writer and directors Kevin Adams and Joe Ksander discuss the making of the Chinese-Canadian animated co-production about the bittersweet power of memories.
Charlyne Yi and John Krasinski lead the voice cast in Chinese-Canadian animated co-production about an unlikely friendship between a rebellious girl and a runaway combat robot.
Deal has ‘Nut Job’ and ‘Gnome Alone’ director exclusively writing and developing three features for the Canadian company.
Post-production director Alejandro Matus and colorist Ignasi González produce more than 40 different deliveries of the CG-animated feature using Blackmagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve Studio.