Category: Membership renewals

December 1st – 7th Imagine Cinemas Carlton – 20 Carlton St 2:00PM, 7:00PM daily TAIS is pleased to partner on the Toronto showings of The 19th ANNUAL ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS. This year\’s edition of the Show of Shows presents 16 exceptional and inspiring animated shorts from around the world. At a time of increasing social instability and global anxiety about…

  +++++++++++++   The video of the complete Cuphead – A Knockout! Artist Talk is now online! — Cuphead – developed and published by Studio MDHR Entertainment – is a gloriously fiendish indie run-and-gunner game inspired by classic Rubber hose cartoons of the 1930s. Painstakingly created using techniques of the 1930s era: traditional hand drawn animation, watercolour backgrounds, and original jazz…

Flip your lid! Blow your stack! A Cuphead Character Design Workshop with Tina Nawrocki REGISTRATION/WAIT LIST NOW CLOSED Thanks to all who signed up! Saturday, November 25th – 1:00pm to 4:00 pm Sunday, November 26th – 1:00pm to 4:00 pm Tuesday, November 28th – 6:30pm to 9:30 pm Saturday, December 2nd – 4:00pm to 7:00pm TAIS Studios – 1411…

Saturday, November 11th TIFF Bell Lightbox, Cinema 2 – 350 King St West 11:30am-1:00pm TAIS is pleased to be a community partner with the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival\’s presentation of director Liu Jian\’s \”Have a Nice Day.\” Buy Tickets Have a Nice Day Liu Jian 2017, RT 75:00, China, Mandarin with English subtitles   A bag with millions of dollars has gone missing, and the chase is…

Sunday, November 5th Tartu College – 310 Bloor St West 5:30-7:00pm TAIS is thrilled to be co-presenting this retrospective event with EstDocs – Take advantage of this rare opportunity to meet the world renown and award-winning animator Ülo Pikkov. Pikkov will present a talk about the art of animated documentary and will screen three of his short films, Body Memory (Keha mälu), Tick Tock (Tik…

Studio talk: October 25, 7pm Daniel Sterlin-Altman completed a TAIS Microresidency in June 2018 to create a new stop motion short film do you even carrot all?, a stop motion-animated short exploring sex, love, family, and regret complicit with queer identity. Daniel will present a studio talk about his project at TAIS on October 25th, at 7pm. The film focuses on a protagonist,…

Philip Ocampo September 11 – October 2, 2017 Studio talk: September 27, 7pm Presented in collaboration with Xpace Cultural Centre, and in partnership with OCAD University\’s Digital Painting & Expanded Animation (DPXA) Program. Inspired by the aesthetics of ancient Greco-Roman pottery and historical narratives, Philip Ocampo will use his time in TAIS studio to produce a new…

KIM,For a third year in a row, TAIS is thrilled to be presenting animated installation works at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. For 2017, the focus is interactive animation and independent video games, and we\’re thrilled to co-present alongside Dames Making Games and Gamma Space!   Get your game on! Indie Ani Arcade Featuring interactive animated works by independent…

Toronto Animated Image Society is thrilled to announce the award winners from the 11th Annual TAIS Animation Showcase for the TAIS Showcase Jury Awards – Grand Prize and Best Anijam, and the Audience Awards for Best Short Film and Best Anijam.   ON SATURDAY, JULY 29th, TAIS announced the award recipients for the 11th annual TAIS…

TORONTO ANIMATED IMAGE SOCIETY (TAIS) 2017 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING ++++++++++++++ All TAIS Members are invited to attend the 2017 Annual General Meeting (AGM). When: Thursday, September 14, 2017 Where: TAIS Studio, 1411 Dufferin St, Unit B Time: 6:30 pm Come support your independent animation community! This is your chance to renew your annual membership, meet other members, elect new…