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3D ANIMATION INSTRUCTORS

CHRIS RYAN

MASTERCLASS LEADER: VISUAL EFFECTS

Chris Ryan is a visual effects and CGI supervisor with over 20 years of experience in the creation and design of visual effects and graphics for commercials, feature films, music videos, and other marketing mediums. He has worked for studios including Zoic, Method, and FuseFX. Ryan began his career with Metrolight Studios in Los Angeles, but has worked in Canada for the past 17 years as a CG supervisor, technical director and pipeline specialist. His many film and television credits include Black Panther, The Finest Hours, The Huntsman: Winter’s War, The Great Gatsby and Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.

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DARVIN MANWAH

3D + VFX DEPARTMENT LEAD

Darvin is the Compositing Supervisor at Side Street Post and a visual effects producer from Vancouver, BC. A graduate of Vancouver Film School, his professional work includes Netflix’s ‘Spectral’, ‘Aliens Ate My Homework’ and ‘The Mist’, Marvel’s ‘Legion’, ‘Falling Skies’ and ‘Once Upon a Time’. Darvin also volunteers with ACM SIGGRAPH S3R3 as a Portfolio Review Mentor. His short film ‘OutPost Alpha’ is in post production this summer where he served as VFX Supervisor and  Producer.

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SELMAN KANTARCI

3D ANIMATION

Selman Kantarci describes himself as equal parts animator and modeler with a love for digital work. He began drawing at a young age, which soon morphed into a love for classical animation, soon evolving to flash and eventually 3D. He believes animation is about interacting with people, finding out what makes them tick, and observing with great detail. Recently, Selman has worked on Detective Pikachu and with Angelina Jolie on Maleficent 2.

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TOM ZUBER

3D ANIMATION + ART

As a past graduate from the Animation dept at Emily Carr University, Tom Zuber works in Film, TV, and Gaming as Art Director, Designer, Animator, and Producer. Tom has worked with are Sony, Electronic Arts, THQ Canada and Australia, Stargate Studios, Backbone Studios, Delaney and Friends, Bardels Animation, Relic Entertainment, and Disney with various roles on projects including The Chronicles of Narnia, SpongeBob SquarePants, Dawn of War, Happy Times Murders, The Prophet, X-Files, and The Exorcist Series. Tom has extensive experience teaching all aspects of 2D and 3D Animation, Concept and Character Art, and Lifedrawing from core artistic skill development to technical art skills with schools such as Emily Carr University, Capilano University, Media Design New Zealand Langara College, and now with InFocus Film School!

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SHAUN MCLELLAN

SCRIPTING + DYNAMICS

Shaun McLellan is a Canadian Houdini Effects Technical Director (FXTD) currently residing in Vancouver, Canada. He specializes in Houdini Fluid, Pyro, RBD, Crowd Simulation and Procedural Geometry, Shading, and Animation generation and Mantra rendering for feature film visual effects along with skills in Maya, 3DS Max, Thinking Particles, Zbrush, Nuke, and Photoshop, Unity and Unreal. Over the past several years Shaun has worked on films including Aquaman, Detective Pikachu, The New Mutants, Justice League, A Wrinkle in Time, and more.

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KARL BUCKLEY

MODELLING INSTRUCTOR

Karl has 20+ years of experience in the 3D animation industry and has worked for many studios such as: Mainframe Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Technicolor, Rainmaker Entertainment, Waterproof Studios and WildBrain Studios. For most of his career Karl has worked as a look development artist and 3D modeler. Some of the projects Karl has worked on include the following titles: Escape from Planet Earth (animated feature), Driver San Francisco (game cinematics), Splinter Cell “Conviction” (game trailer), Ghost Busters (game trailer), Company of Heroes 2 (game trailer), Assassins Creed 2 (game cinematics), Assassins Creed 3 (game cinematics), Need for Speed Most Wanted (game), Def Jam “The Fight for New York” (game). In addition to his production experience, Karl has also been a part time instructor for over 10 years. 

MINA KIM

MODELLING INSTRUCTOR

Mina Kim is a 3D modelling & texture artist. She studied 3D animation for film and games at Capilano University in Vancouver.  She loves drawing with a pencil and brushes all her life, and now she draws, models and sculpts with a 3D pen. Mina really enjoy to share her ideas and skills with different artists who are in games & animation. She loves her work and hopes everybody is able to feel the same passion!

ALEX CASHMORE

MODELLING INSTRUCTOR

As a graduate of Think Tank Training Centre with a Rookies Excellence Award in 2018 under his belt, Alex Cashmore is a Senior Character artist at indie studio “Brilliant Game Studios” in North Vancouver.  Having started there as a contracted artist, he is now their main, full time 3d artist. Alex is in charge of the full character pipeline from modelling, to texturing, optimization, and also rigging.  His work on optimization has contributed to having millions of characters on screen at a time while maintaining performance in engine.  Alex specializes in Zbrush, Substance Painter/Designer, Marvelous Designer, Autodesk Maya, Photoshop, Unreal and Unity engines. 

GIUSEPPE IMPROTA

LIGHTING INSTRUCTOR

My name is Giuseppe Improta, I am a self-thought 3D Artist, a Photographer/Cinematographer, a Creative Entrepreneur, and a Mentor. I have been working in the post-production industry for about 20 years and as a freelance photographer/cinematographer for over 12 years.

After obtaining my computer science diploma, I attended the Fine Art Academy in Italy, where I worked for about 10 years. I started as a generalist 3D Artist and then modeler, rigger, pipeline TD, compositor, and CG Supervisor for small and medium-sized productions.

After leaving Italy, I have specialized in 3D Lighting and Lookdev and now I am a 3D Director of Photography for high-profile movies and animated feature films.

My distinctive way of approaching 3D lighting is derived from my long experience working as a freelance photographer in different fields on-set and outdoors, and as a cinematographer.

Teamwork is what I love the most about my job. There is only so much one can achieve alone, the biggest results are always obtained when working together with minds that think alike, and strive to achieve the same goal. I always love to learn and improve in anything I do. Likewise, I find great fulfillment in teaching and sharing what I have learned. I am happy to help the students avoid as many mistakes as possible, and see them thrive and improve at their craft.

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