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Looking for a career in Animation?
Attend this FREE event
to get the right start!
A general discussion amongst panellists and the audience
about the animation industry including job opportunities, realistic
salary expectations and how to get your foot in the door. The panel
will address the diversity of the industry including opportunities
to specialise in different fields and work overseas. All aspects
relevant to a career in animation will be covered with the aim to
assist you to decide if this is the career for you and the skills
you need to enter this industry. There will be opportunity for you
to ask questions and gain an insight into the exciting career paths
in this fast-growing industry.
This session is free, so please
grab a ticket from the Box Office.
Seats are limited.
Katrina Mathers
Katrina is a multi-skilled creative producer,
writer and director having worked with organisations such as ABC
TV Comedy Comedy/Arts Entertainment for many years, as well as Granada
Productions, St Kilda Film Festival, Artist Services, Skybus TV,
Immediacy, Cornerbox and Networks 9 & 10 and she's run her own
corporate production company "Long Shot Film Entertainment".
A prolific independent filmmaker, Katrina’s
made several award winning shorts including the Tropfest finalist
film “The Referees” (director), short feature “Crazy
Richard” (co writer/co director), short “Vernon”
plasticine animations (filmmaker/animator) and recently the Project
Greenlight short “No Mail” (writer).
Katrina has received development investment and travel
grants from the AFC and Film Victoria; had an interactive animation
project selected for participation at X|Media|Lab; taught short
filmmaking at Melbourne Uni and been an invited guest speaker on
many panels and TV Grand Jury member for the AFI.
Recently she established a new animation, visual
effects, new media and digital art studio called “The Lampshade
Collective” with two colleagues.
Katrina also continues to occasionally work as a writer/performer,
with TV credits including “Sandra Sultry” on “The
Wedge” (Ch10) and regular cast member for “Flipside”
(ABC TV).
Damian Smart
In 1998 Damian graduated from Holmesglen TAFE with a Certificate
in Multimedia, the following year he was employed as a trainee by
Disney Television Animation in Sydney. During his time at Disney
Damian worked on various feature productions, including ‘Return
to Neverland’, ‘Little Mermaid II’, ‘Lady
and the Tramp II’ etc.
After leaving Disney, Damian worked on various productions
around Australia and spent a year in London doing character design
for BKN International Animation Studios.
In 2007 Damian formed the partnership Smart and
Sheard Productions, a company that produces original animated content
for television, their first series ‘The Beach Crew’
is a 2d Flash animation that will be screening on Fox8 later in
2008.
Tom Marley
Tom is a graduate of Holmesglen TAFE’s Advanced Diploma of
Animation. As a student Tom demonstrated great natural ability,
winning numerous student animation awards. Tom’s graduate
film ‘The Drop’ screened at numerous festivals around
Australia, including MIAF, as well as overseas. ‘The Drop’
went on to win a number of awards including:
Winner “Best
Story” for “The Drop”
Victorian Student Animation Festival 2004
Winner “Grand Prize” and “Best
Student Animation” for “The Drop”
2005 Sony PSP Expose Competition 2005
Winner “Best Tertiary Animation”
for “The Drop”
2005 ATOM Awards 2005
Winner “Best Student Film” for
“The Drop”
2005 AEAF Awards 2005
Upon completing his studies in 2004 Tom was
the recipient of a Digital Media Fund Internship with Act3 Animation.
Tom has been working at Act3 Animation ever since and is now employed
in a senior role as Lead Technical Director.
Peter W. Allen
Peter began animating as a teenager using a simple Super 8 camera
and whatever toys and easily movable objects were lying around.
After completing a Diploma of Art Studies and winning a number of
student art awards Peter began work as a multimedia graphic artist/animator,
teaching himself animation and graphics applications on the job.
After several years of working in the multimedia
industry Peter began work at Holmesglen TAFE as Multimedia Course
Coordinator and has since become Program Coordinator of Design Multimedia
& Art at Holmesglen’s Waverley Campus. Peter was instrumental
in the development of the 2 year Advanced Diploma of Animation,
for which his team was nominated for an educational excellence award,
and more recently Holmesglen’s new 3 year Bachelor of Screen
Production.
In addition to his academic duties Peter has
maintained a very active involvement in short film making, producing
and directing several animated films of his own as well as collaborating
on many other productions. Peter has been fortunate enough to attend
a number of the festivals where his work has screened including
Cannes, Telluride Film Festival, Palm Springs International Festival
of Short Film, Brisbane International Film Festival et al.
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