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Our faculty have varied and extensive experience working in the animation industry. Most have been departmental supervisors, directors or producers some with over 20 years experience. Many continue to do freelance work, keeping their own skills sharp and staying current with any changes to the animation industry.
The Animation Program staff is dedicated to teaching and spends as much one-on-one contact time with students as possible.
Having a network of alumni working in the field and maintaining contacts within the animation industry allows us to bring a variety of guest speakers in from studios such as Pixar, Disney Features, Warner Brothers, Ubisoft, Bluth and ILM to lecture our students.
The Animation Program has an Advisory Board comprised of members from local studio owners, producers, directors and artists who help ensure the program is producing graduates who are industry ready.
Neil Hunter
Program Coordinator, Professor
Neil is a 20+ year veteran of the animation industry. He has been involved in every aspect of the field from running his own small studio to working on feature films and has held positions including senior animator, storyboard artist, story editor, designer, director and creative and associate producer.
Neil has worked for studios such as Disney, Universal Cartoons, Film Roman, Nelvana and Cinar as well as on award winning projects such as The Raccoons, Beeteljuice, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, X-Men Evolution, Undergrads, RoboRoach, Jacob Two Two, Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas, The Woman Who Raised A Bear as Her Son, Where on Earth is Carmen Sandiego?, Sonic the Hedgehog, Babar, The Legend of Little Bear and the Stars, For Better or For Worse and many others. Neil has twice been nominated for an Emmy Award. For a complete profile on Neil click here
Phone: 1-613-727-4723 ext. # 5821
Email: huntern@algonquincollege.com
Derek Bond
Program Coordinator, Professor
Derek has been a professional animator for over 15 years. He has had the pleasure of working as a key animator, overseas supervisor, storyboard artist and assistant director on many high quality animated programs.
Derek has animated on shows such as Tiny Toons for Warner Bros., A Pup Named Scooby Doo and Pirates of Darkwater for Hanna-Barbera, Darkwing Duck, Bonkers, Goof Troop and Aladdin for Walt Disney Television and most recently overseeing the production of Ripping Friends for Spumco.
Derek was assistant director on John Kricfalusi’s Ren and Stimpy Adult Party Cartoon.
Phone: 1-613-727-4723 ext. # 7513
Email: bondd@algonquincollege.com
Paul West
Professor
Paul West has been involved in the animation industry for over 18 years. He's worked on many feature film productions for major studios including Warner Brothers, Kroyer Films, Don Bluth and Disney on projects such as Space Jam, the Goofy Movie and Ferngully. Some of Paul's television credits include The Raccoons, Pink Panther, Fish Police, Monster Force, Flash Gordon, Ned's Newt and Jacob Two Two.
Paul brings a wide range of classically trained drawing and animation experience to the program.
Phone: 1-613-727-4723 ext. # 5504
Email: westp@algonquincollege.com
Tom Crook
Professor
Tom graduated with honours from the Algonquin College Animation Program
He is an experienced layout supervisor with credits such as Timothy Tweedle and Franklin’s Magic Christmas and as a layout artist on TV series’ such as Redwall, Robo Roach, Undergrads and many others. Tom has also designed locations for several TV series, commercials, Christmas specials and has been a layout and posing supervisor for Dynomight Cartoons.
“I draw cartoons and I’m living out my dream, not many people can say that.”
Phone: 1-613-727-4723 ext. # 5869
Email: crookt@algonquincollege.com
Anne Morgan
Professor Anne's background includes a BSc (Hons) in Kinesiology. With this scientific understanding of movement and her classical training in Life Drawing (London, England) she teaches Life Drawing for Animation based on the classical approach.
Anne is also co-owner of a graphics firm and has her work in private collections in Europe, South Africa and North America.
Phone: 1-613-727-4723 ext. # 5707
Email: morgana@algonquincollege.com
Ian Jeans
Instructor
Ian has over 20 years experience in the animation industry with tv credits including Beavis and Butthead, Ed, Edd and Eddie, The Raccoons, Mission Hill, Rupert the Bear, Franklin and The Oblongs and feature films including Rover Dangerfield, The King and I, the Magic Voyage and Anastasia. Ian is an accomplished animator, storyboard artist and designer and has also had several gallery showings of his paintings.
Email: jeansi@algonquincollege.com
Keith Archibald
Instructor
Keith is an Algonquin Animation graduate who has been working in the animation industry for ten years on a variety of shows including Jacob Two Two, Mischief City, Gerald McBoing Boing, Carl Squared, Cyber Chase, Franklin the Turtle, Hoze Houndz and Bob and Doug.
He has made a successful transition from traditional animation to digital and is currently building on his professional 3D experience.
Email: archibk@algonquincollege.com
Cory Perkins
Instructor
Cory Perkins graduated with honours from the Animation program in 1997. After a few years working on television shows such as Flying Rhino Jr. High, Hoze Hounds, Franklin the Turtle, Redwall and The Ripping Friends, he returned to the Algonquin Animation program as a part time instructor. Cory hopes to use his passion for film and acting to strengthen the future Algonquin alumni's place in the ever changing and competitive field of animation.
Email: perkinc1@algonquincollege.com
Robert Buchanan
Instructor
Rob is an Algonquin College Animation graduate who has worked in the Ottawa animation industry for the past 10 years on mulitple projects for Funbag Studios, Amberwood Productions, Dynamight Cartoons, Atomic Productions and Mercury Filmworks. He has done layout and storyboard work but prefers to specialize in character animation in both traditional and digital media. Rob has worked on such shows as Franklin the Turtle, Hoze Houndz, Rescue Heroes, Jacob Two Two, Mischief City, Gerald Mc Boing Boing, Timothy Tweedle the Christmas Elf and Pumper Pups. He is currently working on a fantastic feature quality television show called Toot and Puddle for National Geographic channel and Jimmy Two Shoes as part of the character building team responsible for creating and rigging the shows characters for use in Toonboom Harmony.
Besides building and animating characters, in his spare time he is constantly studying his trade through life drawing classes, attending professional workshops and tutorials and studying in depth every piece of animation that he can get his hands on.
"I just love the process of bringing a character to life and telling stories via their performances."
Rob believes learning is a life long journey and it should be enjoyed to the fullest in the pursuit of ones chosen profession. As well as animation he also enjoys teaching and has earned a Bachelor of Education from Nipissing University and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Brock University.
Email: buchanr@algonquincollege.com
Weldon Poapst
Instructor
Weldon brings over 30 years of production experience to the Animation Program. He has worked as a production coordinator, production manager, producer and director of research and development as well as a video editor, senior graphic web designer and animator. He has been a producer on over 100 hours of animated television series and his credits include the features Heavy Metal and The Nutcraker Prince and tv shows such as Katie and Orbie, Savage Dragon, The Raccoons, Teddy Ruxpin, Care Bears, For Better Or For Worse and Ren and Stimpy.
Weldon has had several showings of his paintings and print work
Email: poapstw@algonquincollege.com
Jeff Amey
Instructor
Jeff graduated with honours from the 3-Year Classical Animation Program at Sheridan College in 1998. Since then, he as been working in the animation industry and has a wide range of experience including character design, posing, supervising, storyboards, assistant directing and overseas animation supervision. He has also been a part of many different productions such as Disney's The Enchanted Christmas, Anthony Ant, Watership Down, For Better or For Worse, Mission Hill, The Undergrads, The Oblongs, King, The Ripping Friends, and Ren and Stimpy's Adult Party Cartoon.
Jeff continues to freelance in the animation industry while teaching part-time at Algonquin.
Email: ameyj@algonquincollege.com
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