About the Event:
On March 6 & 7th, Disney animator Trent Correy (a former student) will be leading a 2 day celebration of Animation live @ Sisler…we are calling it MAniJam (Manitoba Animation Jam). Trent was one of the animators on the Academy Award winning animations: Frozen, Big Hero 6, & Feast and on the Golden Globe winning movie Zootopia and the nominated Moana. His work also includes The Smurfs movie, TMNT and many more. This will be an intimate event, with a maximum of 50 students (40 will be SIsler students).
At this point lunch will not be provided, but we are working on that.
There will also be a 4 draw for all 2-day participants to receive a copy of:

Art of Big Hero 6 book, Art of Moana book, Art of Zootopia book, & Art of Frozen book

Schedule:

Day 1 Workshop Details & Breakdown:

9:00 – 10:15: Presentation: Trent’s Path to working at Disney/Portfolio
10:30 – 11:45: Animation Jam begins
11:45 – 12:45: Lunch
12:45 – 1:30: Talk – Pitching a story and how to start an animated short
2:10 – 3:30: Animation Jam (continued). Submit exported animations at 3:30.

Day 2 Workshop Details & Breakdown:

9:00 – 10:15: Animation Jam Showcase of student work compiled as one short film
10:30 – 11:45: How to Draw Caricature Workshop
11:45 – 12:45: Lunch
1:30 – 2:30: Talk & Good-Byes- How to get into the animation industry. All students will be dismissed at 2:30.

Ottawa animator draws on ‘a good heart and a good story’ | Ottawa Citizen

MOANA – (Pictured) Trent Correy. Photo by Alex Kang. ©2016 Disney. All Rights Reserved.

More from Joanne Laucius, Ottawa CitizenPublished on: December 30, 2016 | Last Updated: December 30, 2016 3:07 PM EST
Ottawa animator Trent Correy worked on Disney’s Zootopia and Moana, both hits in 2016. DISNEY /
Small-time con artist Nick Wild, who happens to be a fox. Flash and Priscilla, the slowest-moving sloths at a very slow-moving licence bureau. And a tattooed demigod named Maui.It’s been a big year for animated films and for Trent Correy. The Ottawa animator worked on Zootopia and Moana, two Disney films nominated for Golden Globe Awards, which will be handed out on Jan. 8.The demigod Maui’s tattoos come alive in the ‘You’re Welcome’ scene in Moana. DISNEY / APOscar nominations will be released Jan. 24, and both films are already getting buzz. Correy, who is back home for the holidays, is not playing favourites. “I love both these movies,” he says.Correy grew up sketching and drawing cartoons. His favourite animation was in the films of the Disney renaissance that began 1989 with The Little Mermaid and led to Aladdin, the Lion King and Toy Story.At Hillcrest High School, he took Grade 9 art, then quit before he was persuaded to pick up a course called “communications technologies.” By early Grade 12, with some prodding from his teacher, Correy was thinking about taking his interest in art and filmmaking and marrying the two in animation. He applied to Algonquin College’s animation program.The first two years of the three-year course focused on technical subjects like life drawing. In the third year, the students produce a short animated film.Correy felt he was one of the weaker artists in the program and had to push himself. “Not a lot of schools teach hand-drawn animation anymore. It’s such as good, fundamental way to learn.”Ottawa has a vibrant animation community — Correy estimates 2,000 people work in the field in the city. His first job was at Ottawa’s Mercury Filmworks, where he worked one summer on a children’s series about a pair of pigs called Toot and Puddle. After graduation, Correy returned to Mercury where he spent two years, eventually moving into storyboarding.He moved to Vancouver in December 2010 and worked for Sony on The Smurfs. It was the first time he worked with computer animation. Correy still doesn’t consider himself to be a technician, even though he works at a computer all day. “I love the drawing aspect. The computer is just another tool, like a pencil. ” Correy first applied to Disney in 2008, setting his sights on the talent development program, an apprenticeship for recent graduates that attracts as many as 1,000 applicants a year. “I always wanted to work at Disney, not Pixar or DreamWorks. It was always Disney animation for me,” he says.Correy sent off demo reel after demo reel. “I applied every time they posted a job. Maybe it was borderline harassment.”