The Earth Day Animation Jam, hosted by Sisler CREATE and Wacom, challenges artists and animators to create a three-second animation in just five hours.
On the morning of Thursday April 21 animators will be given a Key Drawing. Their animation must start and end with this image, which will be themed around Earth Day. Artists will submit their animations by 3:30pm the same day. All animators must come to Sisler to participate. Participants will be provided with computers, Wacom tablets, and Toon Boom Harmony software to complete their animation. The jam will open with an inspiring Keynote talk and Q&A with Canadian Master Animator Nik Ranieri (bio below).
The Anijam will involve students from the Sisler CREATE program, young animators from other schools in the division and student animators from Toronto, Florida and Burbank, California.
Nik Ranieri is a character animator who is primarily known for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He has been supervising animator of many characters, and remained so until his layoff in 2013. After graduating from the Classical Animation Program at Sheridan College. He began animating for Disney in 1987 on the London, England-based animation crew of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, working with director Richard Williams. Soon after that he moved to Disney’s feature animation studio, where he animated on The Little Mermaid.
Check out Nik’s journey in animation: https://www.facebook.com/NikRanieriAnimator