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Co-Hosting Special Area (TBD)
Hosting a Panel Discussion (TBD) Moderated by Ron Diamond
Exhibitor  featuring ACME Animations “Show of Shows” DVD’s.

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CRE – Computer Rentals & AV Solutions is a leading provider of computer and audiovisual rental equiptment with service throughout the U.S. and Canada. When the entertainment, technology, healthcare, or advertising industries need computer equipment in hours, not weeks, their staff turns to CRE Rentals. We ensure that your computer rental is configured exactly how you need it to get the job done.

CRE – Computer Rentals & AV Solutions is also committed to understanding the challenges meeting planners face when planning and coordinating a tradeshow, special event or conference. We work with you in all aspects of event planning from identifying the computer and audiovisual rental equipment you need to make an impact to providing you with qualified technicians for superb on-site execution.

Our responsive Account Executives teamed with professional on-site project managers and technicians will assure you a hassle-free rental experience from start to finish and keep you returning to CRE Rentals.

CRE has joined CTN-X as Layout Crew Sponsor and official supplier for CTN-X.  Please use CRE for all your show needs at CTN-X.
Visit their booth at CTN-X and their website:
Computer Rental Equipment

This entry was posted on Sunday, June 21st, 2009 at 9:36 am and is filed under Featured. Categories: Featured. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

LOU ROMANO was one of over 60 artists on the CTNX exhibit floor in 2009. More coming soon………

This entry was posted on Saturday, January 24th, 2009 at 1:23 pm and is filed under Featured. Categories: Featured. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

MEET THE TALENT at CTNX. With over 100 industry professionals all under one roof you will connect with more talent in 3 days at CTNX than you will in a year on Facebook. CTNX is a highly focused environment that features “the talent” and connecting with them face to face in the “real world” creates experiences that become once in a lifetime priveleged opportunities.  More coming soon…..

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 at 11:12 pm and is filed under Featured. Categories: Featured. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

NETWORKING is something that happens 24/7 at CTNX. More coming soon…..

This entry was posted on Saturday, January 24th, 2009 at 1:23 pm and is filed under Featured. Categories: Featured. Tags: Character Designers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

HAVE over 100 conversions. Make more connections  in 3 days than you would on Facebook in a year. CTNX Networking coming soon…..

This entry was posted on Monday, August 10th, 2009 at 7:57 am and is filed under Featured. Categories: Featured. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

PRIVILEGED ACCESS to professionals is key at CTN-X. More coming soon…..

This entry was posted on Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 at 3:23 am and is filed under Featured. Categories: Featured. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

CTNX offers a once a year opportunity to attendees by bringing the world of creative talent together under one roof to educate, employ and inspire. With over 100 artist focused exhibitors, 50 presenters and recruiters from both digital and traditional production studios everyone will leave this event with more than they walked in with.

This entry was posted on Friday, August 14th, 2009 at 10:46 pm and is filed under Featured. Categories: Featured. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

PANEL DISCUSSIONS and SPEAKER SESSIONS are a signature at CTN-X.  More coming soon…..

This entry was posted on Monday, January 26th, 2009 at 4:50 am and is filed under Featured. Categories: Featured. Tags: Panels. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

CTNX09 Live Demonstrations are a large part of the the CTN animation eXpo every year. Whether traditional or digital, watching professionals demonstrate their skill is exciting and educational.   CTNX09 held over 50 live demonstrations all weekend where the attendees can gain privileged access to see “how they do it.” (more pictures coming soon).

This entry was posted on Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 at 9:43 am and is filed under Featured. Categories: Featured. Tags: Production Designers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

DRAWING is at the core of everything from designing to animating to jotting down ideas. Look around you and everything you see that is created by man whether it’s a work of art or a doorknob or a shoe has at one time been on the drawing table of the creative talent. Everything manufactured is designed. More coming….

This entry was posted on Friday, January 2nd, 2009 at 7:37 am and is filed under Featured. Categories: Featured. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

FLEET STREET SCANDAL was created in 2006 by Kevin Dart and Chris Turnham. Both artists share a common desire to create high quality printed material and artthat would look great on the wall. Since opening, Fleet Street has shipped prints across the globe, published two hit books, Fleet Street Scandal: A Collection and Seductive Espionage: The World of Yuki 7, and produced the animated short, “A Kiss From Tokyo” which was an official selection at the 2010 Annecy Animation Festival.

Outside of Fleet Street Scandal, Kevin and Chris have both worked for years in the animation and videogames industries. Most recently Kevin has been working at Cartoon Network as a background painter on the new show “Sym-Bionic Titan.” And Chris worked at LAIKA Entertainment where he was a production artist on the stop-motion animated film “Coraline.” Both artists currently reside in Los Angeles.

This entry was posted on Friday, September 23rd, 2011 at 8:18 pm and is filed under Featured, Previous Guests. Categories: Featured and Previous Guests. Tags: 2010, Character Designers, and Illustrators. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

Lee White is a children’s book illustrator and concept artist living in Portland Oregon. He has illustrated 11 children’s books and has a new title appearing Spring of 2012 published by Viking. Recently partnered with noted artist agent Paul Rodeen, Lee is writing as well as illustrating his next three book titles. His client list includes Simon & Schuster, Laika, Scholastic Publishing, Verizon, Disney, Viking, National Geographic, Apple, and many more.

Lee also enjoys teaching illustration and concept design and currently works as a faculty professor for the Art Institute of Portland. When he’s not working Lee enjoys going on long bike rides with his wife and son.

This entry was posted on Saturday, September 24th, 2011 at 8:49 pm and is filed under Featured, Previous Guests. Categories: Featured and Previous Guests. Tags: 2011 and Illustrator. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Nicolás P.Villarreal was born and raised in La Plata, Argentina. He studied at the Escuela of Animacion y Cinematografía de Avellaneda where he earned a degree in 2d Animation. While studying animation he was taken under the wing of Miguel Alzugaray, a well-known fine artist from Argentina. He continued studying animation and fine art painting until he entered the Master’s Program at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.  Nicolás graduated with honors in the Spring of 2002, and since then he has been working as a 2D animator, character designer, sculptor and Visual Development artist for Films and Video Games including The Walt Disney Studios. He also wrote and illustrated his own Children’s book called “The Aces”.

Currently, Nicolás works as a freelance designer and teaches for the Animation Department at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.  He he lives in San Francisco, California., where aside from drawing and painting he also enjoys playing soccer and spending time with his friends.

This entry was posted on Saturday, September 17th, 2011 at 10:48 pm and is filed under Featured, Previous Guests. Categories: Featured and Previous Guests. Tags: 2010 and Character Designers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

WORLD CLASS TALENT demonstrate their skills at CTN-X. More coming soon….

This entry was posted on Saturday, January 24th, 2009 at 1:24 pm and is filed under Featured. Categories: Featured. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

Raising the Bar Recruiting

Raising the Bar Recruiting is a selection process that takes place with many feature film, television and game studios.  Be apart of the select group that gets chosen for “Raising the Bar Recruiting” to have a one on one interview at CTNX.  Portfolios are submitted to our online site and are previewed by recruiters. Applicants who are accepted will be contacted prior to the event as to when and where their one on one interview will take place.  Must have a 3-day pass to participate in Raising the Bar Recruiting.

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REGISTER BY CLICKING HERE

This entry was posted on Thursday, October 15th, 2009 at 11:24 pm and is filed under Featured. Categories: Featured. Tags: Registration. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

“Lorenzo” presented with Director Mike Gabriel
“Prep & Landing: Naughty vs Nice” presented  with Directors Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers and Producer Dorothy McKim
“Phineas & Ferb Christmas Episode” with Rob Hughes
“Pixie Hollow Games” with Brad Raymond

The Walt Disney Company helps CTNx 2011 close the show with this very special evening of screenings with filmmakers on the lot at the Walt Disney Theater. Something old, something new and something never seen before.

The first 400 people  people to sign up will be able to retrieve their pass to this event onsite at the eXpo. Sign up using this RSVP - I’m sorry but this is sold out!

Open to 3-day pass holders only. First come first serve while supplies last. To find out if you’ve been selected just go to the fast pass counter onsite at the eXpo after you check in and receive your “Close the Show With Disney” pass.

You must have your 3-day badge and screening ticket with you to get into this event.

Sunday Nov 20th
Reception 7PM Reception Cancelled
Screening 8PM Show up 30 min early.
Walt Disney Studios
500 South Buena Vista Street
Burbank, CA 91521
Enter through the south gate on Riverside Drive

Directions via Google Map

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 1st, 2011 at 9:07 am and is filed under Featured, Special Events, Vendors. Categories: Featured, Special Events, and Vendors. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

Title: The Line Kings 2011
Sponsored by The Creative Talent Network
Length 75 min

With our industry growing arms to 3D, live action, multi media and more what inspires these most sought after designers to simply keep drawing!

Moderator Tenny Chonin Former Director of Artist and Professional Development at Walt Disney Animation Studios, Tenny Chonin combined her teaching and artistic experience to develop programs designed to enrich the creative lives of the Disney artists.

Tenny led the department that conceived and produced all training and enrichment activities for the feature animation division.
Her group provided cross-training, new software training, daily art classes, workshops, seminars, production-specific events,
mentoring and much more.

Tenny had the pleasure of working closely with Disney’s studio artists and trainees, apprentices and new hires.  No wonder she proclaims that she had “the best job at Disney Animation.”

Tenny is currently consulting on projects that further the education of animators in film and television.

Over 100 years of award winning design by line from the below in alphabetical order:

Panelists Jason Deamer Pixar Animation

Jason Deamer began his career at Pixar Animation Studios in 1998 as a Sketch Artist on Monsters, Inc.  He has worked as a Character Designer on a number of Pixar films including the Oscar®-winning Finding Nemo and Ratatouille, as well as the Short films One Man Band and Lifted.  Deamer is currently in development, working on a future Disney•Pixar release.

Inspired early in life by Spiderman, Star Wars and Tin Tin to pursue a career in drawing, Deamer leads a small team of artists at Pixar who work with the film’s director to design the characters.  Prior to joining Pixar, Deamer worked designing graphics and illustrations for Plan B skate boards.

Deamer grew up in Mill Valley, California and attended the University of California at Davis and the California College of Arts and Crafts in the Bay Area.  He currently lives in San Francisco and is currently working at Pixar Animation Studios.

Florian Satzinger was a student of the well-regarded Disney, MGM and Hanna-Barbera animator and animation director Ken Southworth (“Alice In Wonderland”, “Woody Woodpecker”, “Tom & Jerry”, “The Flintstones”, “Peanuts”, “The Smurfs”) who influenced him greatly. Presently, he is developing StarDucks© and Toby Skybuckle© with France and Japan based Ankama Media Group. Besides his design and production work, he teaches character design, analog animation and animation history in collaboration with Maryam Laura Moazedi at the University of Applied Sciences, Salzburg.

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Panelist Bill Schwab Walt Disney Feature Animation

Bill started at the Walt Disney Animation Studios in 2005 as a character designer on Gnomeo and Juliet. After completing work on that film, he reprised his role as a character designer on the Disney’s Emmy Award winning holiday special Prep and Landing.

In 2009, Bill received a Best Character Design Annie Award for his outstanding work on Prep and Landing. He continued to do character design for the Prep and Landing short titled Operation Secret Santa and the follow-up holiday special, debuting holiday 2011, Prep and Landing: Naughty vs. Nice.

In between the Prep and Landing specials, Bill lent his character design talents to the wildly successful CG animated hit, Tangled. He worked on the Stabbington Brothers and the pub thugs. His creative vision and unique approach to design has been praised by many of Disney Animation’s filmmakers.

Bill has moved his way up to character design supervisor on Disney Animation’s 2012 release Wreck-It Ralph. As the character design supervisor, Bill is currently responsible for creating the look of the characters and developing the visual style of their world. He works hand in hand with the art director and the film director to bring the characters to life from concept through modeling, rigging and look development.

Bill resides in Studio City, CA with his wife and two kids.

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Panelist Sylvain Deboissy Reel FX Animation Studios

Born near Paris in 1967.
Did the Gobelins animation school 1987-1989
Worked at Disney animation studio Paris from 1989 to 1995 as an animator.
Worked at Bibo films studio 1995 to 1998 as supervisor animator , storyboard artist and director.
Then moved to Dreamwork in 1998 as Supervisor animator, character design and storyboard artist.
I was character design for ” Surf’s Up” at Sony fin 2004 and worked on different projects like Cloudy and Hotel T.
Went back to Dreamworks in 2008 to work on Mega mind, Puss in boots, Neighbors from hell, and  Turbo.
I recently worked as Freelance for BluSky and ReelFX that I am currently at.
I was inspired by french comic artists like Franquin and also my classmate and Colleagues.

This entry was posted on Friday, November 4th, 2011 at 10:32 pm and is filed under Featured, Previous Panels. Categories: Featured and Previous Panels. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.

Toon Boom Animation Inc. is the worldwide leader in animation software solutions. Toon Boom is dedicated to animators and offers the most advanced intuitive tools including first-class customer service. Responding to animators’ explicit needs, Toon Boom Animation product line deliver’s a complete solution to create animation.  Toon Boom’s suit of software tools allows you to have a fully integrated digital pipeline.  From storyboarding to final rendering, nothing compares to Toon Boom’s class-leading software when it comes to creating all styles of animation.

Toonboom will be on the exhibit floor at CTNX2010 and presenting in our Theater on Saturday Nov 20th at 4:30.

Join Heather Kenyon in a presentation on “How to Create a Pitch Bible”

She graduated magna cum laude with a BFA from the Filmic Writing Program at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television.

This entry was posted on Monday, May 17th, 2010 at 10:10 am and is filed under Featured, Sponsors. Categories: Featured and Sponsors. Tags: 2010 and Software. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Responses are currently closed, but you can trackback from your own site.