2009 - 2019
The CTN animation eXpo
Nov 21-24, 2019
Burbank Convention Center
818 827-7138
www.ctnanimationexpo.com
Click here for Tickets: http://register.creativetalentnetwork.com
CTNX2019
Back again and now in our 10th year this award winning event will be bringing you top notch education, creativity, career growth and fun under one roof and for all ages. The new CTNX2019 is now a 4-day event and full of great programming, exhibition floor, screenings, recruiting, live demos and more. All happening during 'Animation Week' proclaimed by the City of Burbank just for this event.
After a decade of CTN events and voted Best Event in 2018 second to the Annecy Film Festival by Animation Magazine we will be taking this award winning program to the next level this year and are super excited to invite you and about the possibility of sharing this event with you.
We are so proud that these great talents chose to be associated with CTN from 2009-2019: Ronald Searle, Moebius, Drew Struzan, Sebastian Kruger, Kim Jung Gi, Carlos Nine, Gerald Scarfe, Pablo Lobato, Richard Edlund, Tomer Honuka, Frank Pe, Jordi Lefebre, Oscar Grillo, Kobe Bryant, Juanjo Guarnido, John Musker, William Joyce, Chris Montan, Ree Treweek, Toby Froud, Phil Tippet, Pierre Lambert, Ted Thomas, Floyd Norman, Burny Mattison, William Wray, Regis Loisel, Jim Blinn, Glen Keane, Mike Mignola, Kevin Lima, Brenda Chapman, Syd Mead, Andreas Deja, Pete Doctor and more.
Expo partners have have included to date: Adobe, Animation Magazine, Animation World Network, ASIFA, Blizzard Entertainment, Blue Sky Animation, CGMA, Copic Markers, Disney Television Animation, Dreamworks Animation, Film Tools, Netflix, Nickelodeon, SnapChat, Sony Pictures Animation, The Animation Guild, Toon Boom Animation, Visit Burbank, WACOM, Walt Disney Animation, XP-Pen Technologies.
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
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
