Toronto Animation and Film User Group is an important tool for animation
and film professionals. This is the best place for animators to
share and grow their talents through the education and development of
their skills with professional demonstrations of new and exciting tools to
make the production process and workflow much easier.

We have gathered the best resources together in order to facilitate this
outcome in bi-monthly free meetings. We attempt to reach all the studios
and bring animators of all levels in order to share ideas and talk
about issues they are having with programs and technology. Bring your
toughest situations and challenges to us and we will provide both the
right solution and use the top experts in their field to explain it to you.

Location
Ryerson University
Rogers Connumication Centre
80 Gould Street, Toronto, ON
Room: Eaton Lecture Theatre

April 7th 2009 - 6:30pm - 11pm

Agenda

• 2 Demonstration Artists
• 1 New Product Spotlight
• 2 Keynote Speakers
• Door Prizes
• Doors Open at 6:30pm
• Pizza and Softdrinks donated by IC TECH and Autodesk
• Q&A
• Networking!
• Meeting to start at 7:30pm

Guest Speaker Topics

Paul McDonald - User Group Organizer - IC TECHNOLOGY 7:30 pm
Welcoming guests to the group, emphasizing the important features of the Toronto User Group, quick discussion on
where it’s going and how it needs to spread.

Stephen Oliver - Territory Manager-Eastern Canada - Autodesk 7:40pm
Stephen is going to discuss why subscription is important to autodesk products, he will discuss Autodesk plans for
the future, and explain how Autodesk’s acquisition of SoftImage will effect or benefit the Autodesk product lines. He
will also discuss Motionbuilder as an important tool in studio’s current workflow, and introduce the Demo Artist.

DEMO ARTIST - MotionBuilder - Autodesk Demo Artist 7:50pm
Demo artist will be showing off Motionbuilder’s strengths as a Pre-visualization tool to assist in the development of
workflow. How it can speed up the production, and how relevant it is to developing stronger and quicker products.

Quick Break!! 8:30-8:40pm (please note food and drinks are not allowed in the theatre)

Paul McDonald 8:38pm
Paul will call back members, and discuss Toronto Animates live event in April. This is a great opportunity for animators
to come together meet, and network... in a celebration of success for the Toronto animation community. We will
also be giving away many Autodesk T-shirts again as door prizes!!

Paul Neale - Keynote Speaker - PEN Productions 8:45pm
Paul Neale has been in the 3D industry for over 14 years working in the areas of film, game and broadcast productions
with a focus on technical direction for characters and pipeline development. After working with major production
houses like Walt Disney Studios and Red Rover Studios Paul started his own shop, PEN Productions Inc. PEN
services companies worldwide in the development of characters, character rigging and pipeline setup for a wide
variety of productions types that have included triple A game titles, feature films, broadcast and TV series work as
well as a host of others.

As well as production work Paul is also a professor at Humber College in Toronto Canada, teaching in their 3D
animation arts program. Paul has also presented master classes 6 times at Siggraph and GDC as well as spoken at
other industry events for Autodesk. Currently Paul has four DVD titles on the market that are considered some of the
best resources for budding technical directors in 3DS Max.

The work and clients of PEN Productions and Paul Neale can be seen at http://penproductionsinc.com or http://paulneale.com .

Paul will be discussing importance of integration of multiple tools into an existing workflow and how keeping up to
date and not being afraid of embracing the new tools that are emerging will ultimately assist you in your productions,
and enable you to stay ahead of the crowd in a tough economic time.

Louis Marcoux - 3Ds Max DEMO ARTIST - AUTODESK 9:10pm
Due to popular demand, and his expertise, we have invited Louis back to show off not only CAT, which he will
quickly review from the January meeting for those of you who have not seen it yet, but he will be taking you through
the really cool new features of what is arguably the most exciting release of 3Ds Max in as many years. The addition
of over 200 new tools and features, new view ports, and very quick real time visualization will make most
animators drool. Louis’ clear, concise explanations and demonstration style will leave you wondering how you lived
without these tools before now.
Louis Marcoux is an Autodesk application specialist for 3ds Max®. Prior to Autodesk, he was a real-time broadcast
graphics specialist for five years, working with Autodesk and Vertigo Xmedia. Louis received a Bachelor’s degree in
Electrical Engineering from Polytechnique in Montreal and also holds a Bachelor of Communications degree from
UQAM and Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Concordia University.

Paul McDonald - 10:15pm
Closing Remarks

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