Wayne Gilbert
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Wayne Gilbert is a Canadian working in Vancouver as a Senior Animation Director for Electronic Arts. His computer-animated short Let Go won a Crystal Heart Award at the Heartland Film Festival. It was his second film created while working at ILM. The first was "CPU". Prior to that he created 2D shorts titled "Bottoms Up" and "Traffic Jam" which was accepted into the Anncey Animation Festival.
Gilbert was educated at Sheridan College where, he received a diploma for Classical Animation, and eventually returned there as a teacher of ten years. He has lectured at schools and universities around the world.
While in Toronto Wayne worked on 7 half hour television shows and numerous commercials. He was also a background painter, department head and traditional animator at famous animation studio Nelvana, served as art director at Wang Films in Taiwan and supervised creative staffing and professional development for Walt Disney Animation Canada.
Gilbert worked at Industrial Light + Magic on such films as Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and The Mummy Returns as well as and numerous commercials, two of which won Clio Awards.
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- People/Animation Faculty, deanza.edu [1].
