3D ANIMATION INSTRUCTORS

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.

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!

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. 

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. 

ADVANCED 3D ANIMATION

Samir Abdullah graduated from Langara College, located in Vancouver, BC in the Advanced 3D Animation Field. He received a Bachelors of Arts in Interior Architecture and Environmental Design from Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey. He actively practices both animation and interior design in his professional career, with a passion for digital media. Through his animated work, he attends to storytelling through drawing and animation. By bringing together these digital elements, he wants to tell important and compelling stories with his work. 

Currently, he is working as a teacher assistant in the 3D Animation department at InFocus Film School. Abdullah is pursuing both his passion for animation and teaching at InFocus Film School.