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Welcome
On June 10th and 11th join us for the opportunity to celebrate the Games and Animation industry in Miramichi, NB.
We have lots of events planned to fill two days and more!
Come and tour the facilities of our renowned Animation and Gaming Programs. Listen to our international guest speakers, visit the student showcase, network with other professionals, watch professional and student work or at the very least relax and join us for a fabulous lobster dinner with our famous down home hospitality.
We are looking for submissions!
Do you want to showcase a new product? Do you have a great cinematic? Are you working on a new piece or student flick?
Whatever you have...We would love to show it!
If you are into traditional animation, computer animation, or gaming come and join us in all things Jalloo.
Schedule
The schedule is subject to change. Please check back for the most current info.
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Wednesday, June 10 |
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| Time | Lecture Theatre 145 | Lecture Theatre 125 | Lecture Theatre 103 | Lab B6 |
| 8:30 | Registration in the Main Foyer. Continental Breakfast served in the cafeteria. Coffee and muffins served all morning. |
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| 9:30 - 10:00 |
Welcome and Introduction | |||
| 10:00 - 12:00 |
Student Showcase in the Gym | |||
| 10:00 - 12:00 |
Video Screenings - Gaming and Animation | Video Screenings - Gaming and Animation | ||
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Keynote Address by Mark Skaggs | |||
| 12:30 - 1:30 |
Lunch | |||
| 1:30 - 3:00 |
State of the Gaming Industry | State of the Animation Industry | Unity 3D Game Engine Workshop | |
| 3:30 - 5:00 |
Animation: From Employee to Freelance to Your Own Studio | Casual and mobile Games: Big Business and Modern Cottage Industry | Women in Animation and Gaming | Unity 3D Game Engine Workshop (Continued) |
| 6:00 - 9:30 |
Networking Dinner | |||
| 6:30 - 11:00 |
Student Party (Open to non-students after the networking dinner) |
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Thursday, June 11 |
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| Time | Lecture Theatre 145 | Lecture Theatre 125 | Lecture Theatre 103 | Lifedrawing Room |
| 8:30 | Registration in the Main Foyer. Continental Breakfast served in the cafeteria. Coffee and muffins served all morning. |
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| 9:00 - 9:30 |
Keynote Speaker Joe Sherman | |||
| 9:30 - 11:00 |
Student Showcase in the Gym | |||
| 11:00 - 12:30 |
Controversy in Games and Animation | Games and Animation for Education and Simulation | Business Model for Mobile Games | Lifedrawing Workshop |
| 12:30 - 1:30 |
Networking BBQ Lunch | |||
Guest Speakers
Our exciting slate of guest speakers continues to grow as the festival draws near. Check back for updates!
Click a name in the list below to jump to that speaker's bio:
- Mark Skaggs - Zynga Games
- Joe Sherman - Reel Two Productions
- Piotr Babieno - Bloober Team
- Peter Bielatowicz - Bloober Team
- Luke Conrad - Cartoon Conrad
- Adam King - Cartoon Conrad
- Michael Andreas Kuttner - Collideascope Animation
- Gene Fowler - FatKat Animation / Loogaroo
- Hugo Morin - Frima Studios / Humagade
- Carl Callewaert - Fundi3D
- Lesley Headrick - Guru Studio
- Leisl Adams - Freelance Artist
- Marc Alloul - Mobitween / Zed Group
- Sean Yeomans - Telos
- David Weibe - YTV
Mark Skaggs - Zynga Games
Game Developer
San Francisco, CA
Keynote Speaker
Mark has spent many years in the Games industry, serving as EP for Westwood Games, Electronic Arts and was founder and COO of Trilogy Studios. Now Mark serves as EP at Zynga Games.
A certified Navy brat, Mark Skaggs was born on the island of Guam and grew up in various cities across the U.S. as well as in Japan. When he got into computers, it didn't stop his roving lifestyle -- dispelling the cliché that computer work is a sedentary occupation.
First stop was Dallas and a software engineering job at Texas Instruments. Next stop was a small software shop to create the PC version of the award-winning illustration program FreeHand, now published by Adobe. Work there took him back to Japan and as far away as Russia, where in the early 1990s he started a programming team to create add-ons for FreeHand. (As the Cold War was coming to a close, the Russkies embraced their American compatriot, spiritually bound by their universal love of programming code). Soon Skaggs felt a deep yearning within. "I had an MBA as well as a computer engineering degree," he says, "and I really wanted to do something with it."
The siren song of gaming lured him and he started a small video game company in Texas called Tetragon. His team cranked out a couple of 3DO’ titles and a Playstation’ title, then moved to California to produce games for Virgin Interactive Entertainment. He handled every project the company threw at him, developing titles for the Playstation’, the N64’ and the PC. He quickly developed a reputation for being able to bring in games on time and under budget.
Joe Sherman – Reel Two Productions
Animation Director
Toronto ON
Keynote Speaker
Joseph is a Gemini award-winning series director (Oct., 2007, Best Direction in a Children's or Youth Program or Series for Series “Johnny Test”) with over 25 years experience in the Animation industry in Canada and overseas. Sherman has a background and detailed understanding in the design and production of animated commercials, series, motion graphics and print illustration and design. With training in visual arts that includes University of Alberta Fine-arts and a graduate of the Sheridan College Animation program, he has extensive experience in every aspect of commercial animation production, from development, script and storyboard, through character design and background styling to post offline and online direction.
Sherman has worked for more than 12 years as director and creative director for series and commercials in a variety of studio settings, both large and small, such as Nelvana, Hanna Barbera, Breakthrough Entertainment, Spin Productions, 9 Story Entertainment, Cookie Jar Entertainment and has an extensive understanding of both traditional and Computer animated design, illustration, production and video post-production.
He has a thorough working knowledge of the Macintosh O.S., as well as a working knowledge of Window’s based OS’ with extensive experience in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXpress, Adobe After Effects, Flash and Toon Boom. He is an extremely ’hands on’ creative director, in design, concept art, styling and art direction in both traditional and digital media.
His commercial clients include Teletoon, YTV, CBC, Global Television, Proctor and Gamble, Pillsbury, Kelloggs , Post Cereals, Ford, Chrysler, Coca-Cola, etc.
Piotr Babieno – Bloober Team
Producer
Krakow, Poland
Piotr is President and co-owner of Bloober Team, with over 8 years of marketing and 5 game titles under his belt as Producer. His game credits include: Great Empires: Rome, Double Bloob, Sadness, Raid over the River, Engineering an Empire: Egypt. In addition to his love of all things marketing, Piotr has a passion for Spanish theatre, football, and travel.
Peter Bielatowicz – Bloober Team
Game Designer
Krakow, Poland
Peter is VP, Creative Director and co-owner of Bloober team. With a background I both Computer Science and Psychology he has been the lead designer on 4 games including: Last Flight, Engineering an Empire: Egypt, Double Bloob, Great Empires: Rome, Raid over the River. When not designing games, Peter enjoys things like Social Psychology and Epistemological esthetics (the nature of knowledge; yes, I had to look it up too).
Luke Conrad – Cartoon Conrad
Owner
Bridgewater, NS
Luke's passion for animation propelled him to start his own company in 2003. Adapting the company strategy to stay current with today's client Luke has been providing services raging from animation on Television series, promotional material for cell phones to interactive modules for business and nursing. Still, at the heart of the company Luke continues to create and enjoys sketching, animating, and bringing his ideas to life.
Adam King – Cartoon Conrad
Project Manager
Bridgewater, NS
Adam has been working on various projects and short films with Luke even before the company had been established. After working on several shows as an animator, Adam made the jump to Cartoon Conrad as a full time employee in 2006. Taking on the role of Studio and Animation Supervisor Adam works towards a goal of not only providing top-quality animation but also keeping the projects on schedule and on budget.
Michael Andreas Kuttner – Collideascope Animation
Owner
Halifax, NSMichael-Andreas Kuttner is one of the founding fathers of the Canadian New Media industry. Educated as a graphic and human interface designer, M-A soon found himself founding Collideascope Digital Productions. Over the course of 13 years, Collideascope grew to become the East coast’s largest digital animation studio.
During this time, M-A produced some of the earliest projects funded by both the Bell Fund and the Canada New Media Fund, along with a long list of children’s animated entertainment for broadcast. His work within the cultural and business communities earned him several awards, including a Gemini, several Summit Awards, and Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 at the tender age of 32.
Due to changes in the industry and the personal need for a break, M-A successfully wound down Collideascope and opened up Neato Entertainment. Neato will focus on smaller projects that pique his interest. He also intends to spend more time at his place in the woods with his family. He’s pretty jazzed about the prospect.
Gene Fowler -FatKat Animation / Loogaroo
Owner
Miramichi, NBGene Fowler is an honors graduate of NBCC Miramichi, and in the last 10 years been in the executive and creative management roles of animation studios and their projects. In 2000, as Executive Director of Animation for a studio owned by a US –based e-learning company, Gene was responsible in growing and managing the largest Flash exclusive animation studio in Canada.
Then in 2003, as the founder and President of Fatkat, Gene grew from scratch the largest flash animation studio on the Canada’s east coast, employing hundreds of artists and twice ranking in the top 3 of the fastest growing companies in the region.
Gene has produced over 100 productions in the last 10 years. These range from commercials for Toyota, Pepsi, Unilever, Microsoft and Yahoo to training films for Boeing, Hasbro and Nike to Multimillion dollar television series for CBC, Nicktoons, YTV, SRC, Canal + and BBC.
He is extremely passionate about his hometown Miramichi, building an animation industry in New Brunswick and is wondering what he has to do to get his photo up on the wall of fame at NBCC Miramichi, jeez!Loogaroo is Gene's latest project.
Hugo Morin - Frima Studios / Humagade
Vice-President of Strategic Development
Quebec City QC
Hugo Morin founded Humagade in April 2003. In the years that followed, the company experienced a staggering growth rate, with an 84% increase in sales each year, and a rapid growth in size to over 40 employees. Having produced over 100 games in J2ME/BREW, Flashlite, PC and Nintendo DS, it rapidly became a key player in the area of mobile-platform games. Because of Humagade's distinctive experience, it has had the opportunity to work with world-class licenses such as Star Wars, Mickey Mouse, Family Guy, Madden, Green Day, South Park and the Olympic Games, for such clients as THQ, EA, Sega, Warner and Fox. In February 2008, Mr. Morin became a shareholder in Frima Studio, which acquired Humagade. Today, Frima has over 230 employees and is the second-largest independent studio in Quebec. Mr. Morin has over 15 years' experience as a manager in the high-tech sector, and is actively involved in the Quebec IT/gaming industry. He sits on the Board of Directors of the provincial association for IT entrepreneurs (Voix des Entrepreneurs en Technologie de l’Information de Québec (VETIQ)), participates in VETIQ's "Presidents' Circle," and gives seminars on his business experience. In 2007–2008, he was selected by the government of Quebec to participate in a training program on IT-business management, given by the Massachussets Institue of Technology in Boston. Mr. Morin currently holds the position of Vice-President of Strategic Development for Frima Studio. His responsibilities include commercialization of Frima’s internal IPs and managing diverse strategic growth opportunities for Frima Studio.
Carl Callewaert – Fundi3D
3D Artist and Instructor
Fredericton, NB
Carl is a multi-talented 3D guru who works for Measurand, a premier motion capture company, instructs for the Centre of Arts and Technology, and creates and instructs 3D and 3D game technologies through his own company Fundi3D
Lesley Headrick – Guru Studio
Animator, Animation Director
Toronto ON
Lesley Headrick has been completely immersed in the business of Animation for almost 25 years. A graduate of Sheridan College in both Traditional and Computer Animation her credits include The Wild, Quest for Camelot, and Chop Socky Chooks.
Currently she is an Animation Supervisor on Back Yardigans at Guru Studio in Toronto. Prior to that she was CGI Supervising Director on Chop Socky Chooks, a co-production with Aardman Productions UK. On Chop Socky Lesley oversaw not only animation, but layout, edit and post production as well. She proudly notes that Chop Socky Chooks won a Gemini for best animated series in 2008.
She was a digital character Animator on the films ‘The Mummy’, 'Artificial Intelligence:AI' and ‘Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones’ among others.
She has worked with Industrial Light and Magic, SquareUSA, Manex Entertainment, CORE, Starz Entertainment, Elliott Digital, Chuck Gammage, Animation House (where she won several industry awards for commercials), Red Rover, Nelvana and International Rocketship.
Aside from spending her time eating, sleeping and breathing animation, Lesley has a great passion for exploring and supporting all aspects of the arts, the outdoors, creating in her kitchen and getting into her kayak whenever she can.
Leisl Adams – Freelance
Animator & Illustrator
Ottawa ON
Leisl Adams was born and raised in Hamilton, Ontario. She grew up watching a lot of television, and tried to draw everything she saw on it. In high school she started drawing comics to share with friends, and got involved doing illustrations and comics for various school publications, as well as animation for the school video club.
Later, she attended Sheridan College, graduating from the Classical Animation program in 2002. Since then she has worked as an animator on various television shows, and even did some storyboarding for CBC shows, Lunar Jim, and Poko.
Recently, she decided to give freelancing a try and has done some illustration work on The Dork Diaries, to be published by Aladdin books in 2009.
Besides her freelance work, she has self-published a pre-school book called Monsters Under the Bed!, and writes and draws a webcomic called On The Edge.
Marc Alloul - Mobitween / Zed Group
Montreal QC
General Manager
Marc Alloul, General Manager Mobitween, a Zed Group Company, spent the last sixteen years working with both large publicly traded as well as smaller private equity funded companies where he developed and brought to market advanced mobile solutions to some of the world's leading mobile operators. Marc has extensive knowledge of telecommunications and many years of experience in the dynamic and fast moving international mobile entertainment industry.
Marc was in charge of Mobitween's Financing, Business & Corporate strategy, leading to it's acquisition by Zed Group in September 2008.
Prior to joining Mobitween, Marc was VP International and M&A at Airborne Entertainment where he was instrumental in both acquisition and integration of targeted companies before Airborne itself was sold to Cybird of Japan for $110 million.
He was also General Manager of Indiqu Inc., then a pioneer in the mobile entertainment industry (sold to MForma now Hands-on Mobile).
Prior to that, he was with Schlumberger's Mobile Communications (now Gemalto) for more than 5 years in a variety of countries & senior leadership roles across products and sales. He worked as well for IBM's Silicon Gate line.
Marc has a M.Sc. in Quantum Physics from McGill University, Canada, a M.Sc. in Mobile Communications from the EURECOM Institute, Sophia Antipolis, France, and graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), Paris, the leading French telecommunications Engineering School.
Mobitween is a leading developer and publisher of Flash. based games for mobile and online worlds. The company works with mobile operators, handset manufacturers, leading publishers, media companies and third party developers.
By leveraging its Flash. based mobile game development expertise acquired over the past three years, the company has introduced ugenGames, www.ugengames.com, its web 2.0 User Generated Content and Social Networking Service. Mobitween.s goal is to be the first Game 2.0 company bridging the gap between online & mobile game developers and players, allowing them to create, customize, embed and share games.
Mobigamz, the world's first Flash. Lite based mobile gaming portal, is a client-server vending machine that replicates the web browsing model enabling players to download, play, rate and post hi-scores through a rich-media and customizable Flash. Lite client.
Mobitween is owned by Zed Worldwide.
Zed develops and markets entertainment and community products and services
for mobile and the Internet. The company is the leading mobile value-added
services
(MVAS) player in the world in terms of revenue and geographical footprint.
Zed operates in 55 countries, including Europe's largest markets, USA, India and China and holds agreements with 130 wireless operators all over the world. For more information visit: www.zed.com.
Sean Yeomans - Telos Entertainment
Charlottetown PEI
President/CEO
Sean is president and senior producer with Telos Productions. Having worked as producer on a number of new media, animation, and gaming projects he identified a market opportunity for a first-person game. Sean has extensive experience in traditional media production, and this skill-set transfers very readily to the sector of new media and game development. He will apply his natural, entrepreneurial drive and significant industry experience to ensure the success of his most recent project, "Shadow of the Panopticon." Sean holds a Bachelor degree with a focus on film from the University of New Brunswick.
For going on ten years, Telos Productions has been a creative, software development, management company, almost exclusively providing expertise to various film, and new media projects. Working on film, computer animation, and software development projects have provided the Telos Team with strong grounding and experience that is directly relevant to video game production and their current and future ambitions.
David Wiebe - YTV
Toronto ON
Director of Content
David Wiebe is the Director of Content for YTV. In addition to overseeing the development and production of creative content for YTV, David also reviews all commissions, acquisitions and interactive initiatives.
David began his career in animation at Nickelodeon as a Network Coordinator, managing the hit series SpongeBob SquarePants, The Fairly Odd Parents and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron.
Prior to joining Nelvana, David was the Director of Development and Programming for Kids' WB! in Los Angeles, where he oversaw acquisition and original development for both animated and live-action properties. While at Kids' WB!, David supervised programming for Johnny Test, Legion of Super Heroes and the Emmy®-winning series The Batman.
Showcase
Demo Reels
Companies and freelancers in the animation and gaming sectors may submit their work to appear in the Professional Demo Reel. The reel will be shown continuously in one of the video rooms during the showcase.
Students from anywhere worldwide may submit their work to appear in the New Generation Demo Reel which will be screened alongside the student showcase. The emphasis will be on students from Atlantic Canada.
The registration form on this site includes a section for including your work on one of the demo reels. For more information, contact us: info@jalloo.net
Student Showcase
Students graduating from NBCC Miramichi's diploma programs in Animation or Game Design are eager to meet industry leaders. Each student will be on hand to exhibit samples of his or her work in our student showcase. Potential employers, industry professionals looking for fresh ideas, and students interested in entering the Animation and Gaming fields should all attend.
The showcase will feature students graduating from the following programs:
| Animation and Graphics | Mainly traditional 2D animation with some flash and 3D |
| Graphic Design | Ranging from print media to web design with a business focus |
| Game Programming | Programming superficially in a game environment |
| 3D Technical Animator | 3D modeling and rigging for high poly models |
| 3D Level Design | 3D modeling and rigging with an eye to real time rendering; also known as Environmental Artists. |
| Advanced Diploma in Applied Arts | Graduates from a recognized college program who have completed a 1-year internship with the Department of National Defense |
Please refer to the schedule for Showcase times and location.
Podcast of Events at Jalloo 2009
Streaming video podcasts of the panels and keynote speakers will be posted here by early July 2009.
Miramichi
So where are we?
Jalloo is hosted at the Miramichi campus of the New Brunswick Community College.
| For a detailed map and directions follow this link to google maps |
NBCC Miramichi Campus |
And where can you stay?
Miramichi has various hotels and bed and breakfasts. Feel free to contact us.
A link to the google maps list of hotels with maps and phone numbers.
The closest hotel to NBCC is the Rodd Hotel
Rodd Miramichi River
1809 Water Street
Miramichi, NB
Canada E1N 1B2
Phone: 506.773.3111 Fax: 506.773.3110