The CTN animation eXpo
Nov 21-24, 2019
Burbank Convention Center
818 827-7138
www.ctnanimationexpo.com
CTNX2019 Theme this year “The Journey”
Back again and now in our 10th year bringing you education, creativity, career growth and fun under one roof for all ages. The new CTNX2019 is now a 4-day event and full of great programming. Calling all youth, parents and pros planning on coming to the show this year you can do so now for less than $25 per day to experience all CTN has to offer. (3-day Passports $100) But you have to act fast, this ticket discount is good until 11:59pm PST Feb 17th, 2019.
If you’ve been infected with the idea of having a career in the animation and media arts fields or already are working in these industries and want to level up or contribute to the community then CTN is for you. Created by artists and for artists no matter what level you are at or if you draw, write, animate digitally or traditionally or are thinking about being an animation artist, comic artist, making a film or starting your own studio CTN is the only place for you to wire up your future and connect you with top quality resources to help you reach your full potential.
Juniors, seniors, in house pros, filmmakers, indies, small startups, freelancers and more will level up with specific target sessions with our creator track:
Gain access to the talent and join the opportunity track
- What it takes to be a success in these industries
- What Studios and Projects are Hiring
- What Arts and media universities, colleges and trade schools are out there
- What options do I have
- Portfolio Reviews and Career Camp
- How do they do it - Big and small studio panels
- Inspirational lectures
- Where do I go from here.
Filmmakers and start up studios will benefit from our new Business and Production track:
Gain access to the leaders in this community
- Screenings
- The making of a short film round table panels
- Business seminars
- Marketing and Promoting seminars
- Kickstarter and other Funding seminars and workshops
- Recruiting for your project
Parents can learn right alongside now too. As a parent you’re already doing an amazing job and CTN is simply the best tool and community to help support and reinforce what you’ve already started. As a parent here’s what you get:
Gain access to the CTN parent community
- So you can talk and interact with like minded parents
- Ask questions of professionals
- Come up with solutions
- Lend a hand and give advice to other parents
- Make close friends.
- And Much MUCH MORE!
Here’s where working with other artists took me:
- Learned my chops with Don Bluth Studios starting at the bottom of the animation chain.
- From there went on to work with Filmmation Studios and simply supplemented everyday with studying and learning to be the best in the industry.
- From there worked with Walt Disney Animation for 23 years on every film from Black Cauldron to Treasure Planet and did everything from drawing, to CG animation to Visual Development.
- And now the award winning founder of CTN and voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
As I met more people in the industry and as I worked harder and harder one thing led to another and I have a 30 years award winning track record. Working every single day on my growth has never stopped. The skill set that comes from being an artist applies to everyday life and will apply for the rest of your life. Now as CTN is entering it’s 10th year I am proud to provide our best year yet for you and am so looking forward to meeting you and working together.
Expo partners have included Adobe, Animation Magazine, Animation World Network, Blizzard Entertainment, Blue Sky Animation, CGMA, Copic Markers, Disney Television Animation, Dreamworks Animation, Film Tools, Netflix, Nickelodeon, SnapChat, Sony Pictures Animation, Toon Boom Animation, Visit Burbank, WACOM, Walt Disney Animation, XP-Pen Technologies
Want proof of what CTN can do for you? Check out at this knowledge base gold mind for FREE and here what others say at http://tv.creativetalentnetwork.com
Here’s the good news for reading all this, sign up now and save. Need to talk to a person call 818 827 7138.
CTN animation eXpo
Nov 21-24, 2019
More about us:
The Membership:http://membership.creativetalentnetwork.com/
The Archive: http://tv.creativetalentnetwork.com/
The Creative Talent Network®------ Putting the Talent Center Stage
BACKSTORY
Thirteen years ago, the majority of traditional and digital creators in the global animation industry were ‘in-house’ with long term contracts working collaboratively and together as a team for years but due to layoffs, social media, outsourcing and other business model changes the industry became less ‘in-house artists’ and more of a nomad lifestyle independently bouncing from job to job. People worked short term in-house or in complete isolation without a sense of community or purpose. CTN membership brings unity.
CTN founder Tina Price – is an award winning animation professional with an entrepreneurial streak. After 23 years at Disney and a victim to one of the largest layoffs in animation history she saw an opportunity to bring together this inspired breed of independent creators for a membership community driven annual creativity-infused event chock full of inspiration.
Tina wanted the world to know that these artists not only are brilliant and that they exist as a community but she had the goal to create a neutral home for collaboration, ideas, relationships and, most importantly opportunities for their future to take shape.
Today, CTNX draws the global animation talent community from 16 countries and is the leading conference and festival of its kind in the world.
"I can’t believe this all started with a book expo in a hot tent outside of Van Eaton gallery. Actually the first one was inside with about 10 artists and I was lucky to be one of those!! " ~David Colman
"It’s truly a pleasure to collaborate with you Tina trough the years and an honor to have been part of CTN since day 1. But most of all, Bing and I are so blessed by your friendship. Looking forward to CTNX10 as we celebrate Mulan20!" ~Armand Serrano
About the Founder
Tina Price began her career as a professional ballet dancer with New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and Chicago Lyric Opera. She transitioned to an animation career at the age of 26 by training with Don Bluth on his independent film “Banjo The Woodpile Cat”. Following that Tina worked as a Key Clean Up Artist with Filmmation Studios from 1979 - 1983. In 1983 she entered Walt Disney Feature Animation as a Clean Up inbetweener working with Andreas Deja on “The Black Cauldron”. After her work on “The Great Mouse Detective” she entered the computer animation department in 1985 pioneering the first digital animation department at Walt Disney Feature Animation contributing digital animation to traditionally animated films and including the award winning short film shown at SIGGRAPH “Oilspot and Lipstick”.
Promoted to head of the computer animation department at Disney she contributed digital animation to “Oliver and Company”, “The Little Mermaid”, “Aladdin” and “Rescuers Down Under”. Still growing she entered Visual Development and designed Characters for “Hercules”, “Tarzan”, Fantasia/2000 and Dinosaur after which she was promoted to Artistic Coordinator on “Treasure Planet”.
Leaving Walt Disney in 2006 Tina went on to become Line Producer working for JibJab Studios. Today Tina is most known for being the founder of The Creative Talent Network and producer of the CTN animation eXpo.
Tina Price is an award winning pioneer 'woman in animation' noted in the book "Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation" by Mindy Johnson.
More about Tina Price Film Credits: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0697180/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
“Tina maintains a well publicized organization that keeps professionals in the limelight, and introduces talent to people that otherwise might have possibly missed them. Exposure is aggressive without being obnoxious. Tina is sharp and very pleasant to work with.” ~Daniel Cooper Art Director, Walt Disney Animation Studios
