Wayne Gilbert

Wayne Gilbert is a Canadian working in Vancouver as a Senior Animation Director for Electronic Arts. His computer-animated short "Let Go" won a Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival. It was his second film created while working at ILM. The first was "CPU". Prior to that he created 2D shorts titled "Bottoms Up" and "Traffic Jam" which was accepted into the Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

Gilbert was educated at Sheridan College where he received a diploma for Classical Animation. Eventually he returned there as a teacher of ten years, [cite news| last =Wood| first =Chris| title =The making of a 'toon college| page =43| publisher ="Maclean's"| date =1996-06-24| ] and was the co-ordinator of a novel educational project providing resources to Sullivan Bluth Studios ("The Land Before Time", "An American Tail") in Dublin, Ireland. [cite news| last =Proby| first =Joscelyn| title =Sheridan College classical animation department asked to share expertise with a college in Ireland| page =W12| publisher ="Toronto Star"| date =1989-08-08| ] In the late 1980s he was Sheridan's co-ordinator of animation, [cite news| last =Jennings| first =Sarah| title =Ottawa company's animation making an international name| page =C9| publisher ="The Globe and Mail"| date =1989-12-11| ] and later held the post of artistic director of classical animation. [cite news| last =Canadian Press| first =| title =Walt Disney taps into Canadian talent with proposed animation studios| page =E8| publisher ="The Ottawa Citizen"| date =1995-12-01| ] He has lectured at schools and universities around the world.

While in Toronto Wayne worked on 7 half hour television shows and numerous commercials. He was also a background painter, department head and traditional animator at famous animation studio Nelvana, served as art director at Wang Films in Taiwan and supervised creative staffing and professional development for Walt Disney Animation Canada.

Gilbert worked at Industrial Light and Magic on such films as " and "The Mummy Returns as well as and numerous commercials, two of which won Cleo Awards.

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References

*People/Animation Faculty, deanza.edu [http://www.deanza.edu/animation/people_anim_faculty.html ] .

External links

* [http://www.anamie.com Official site]
*imdb name|id=1071247|name=Wayne Gilbert
* [http://www.heartlandfilmfestival.org/2004/film_details.aspx?filmID=68 Heartland's page on Gilbert's "Let Go" short]