SPARK FX 2023: CAREER FAIR & EXHIBITION
March 18, 2023
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
181 Roundhouse Mews
Vancouver, BC V6Z 2W3
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SPARK FX 2023: CAREER FAIR & EXHIBITION
RECOGNIZING TALENT, INGENUITY AND CRAFT
March 18, 2023
WELCOME
Take your career to the next level by connecting with top tier CG studios. Free to attend, this career fair is your opportunity to get past the front door and meet the decision-makers on internationally acclaimed productions looking to hire.
Whether you’re a seasoned CG animation or VFX professional looking for a change or a student seeking to break into the field, the Spark CG Career Fairs will give you valuable one-on-one time with studio recruiters. Beyond just handing off a resume and a reel, this a networking done right. It’s about building strong relationships for today and down the road.
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REGISTRATION FOR ATTENDEES
Online registration for the SPARK FX 2023 Career Fair is full. Drop-ins are welcome and will be registered on-site.
VENUE
Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
Exhibition Hall
181 Roundhouse Mews
Vancouver, BC, V6Z 2W3
DATE & TIMES
Saturday, 18 March 2023
From 9:30 am to 4 pm
PARTICIPATING EXHIBITORS
- Animal Logic
- Atomic Cartoons
- Bardel Entertainment
- beloFX
- Cinesite Studios
- CoSA VFX
- Digital Domain
- DNEG
- Framestore
- Image Engine Design
- Industrial Light & Magic
- Mainframe Studios
- Sony Pictures Imageworks
- The Embassy VFX
- Versatile Media
- WildBrain Studios
- Zoic Studios
OTHER EXHIBITORS
Please arrive at your registered time. There are many recruiters to meet!
Please check regularly to discover more studios that will be looking to hire you! Stay tuned.
DIRECTORY
Animal Logic is recognized as one of the world’s leading animation studios, producing award-winning design, visual effects and animation for 30 years. With studios in Sydney and Vancouver and development offices in Los Angeles, Animal Logic continues to forge new partnerships and collaborations with leading studios and filmmakers to develop and produce stories that resonate with a global audience.
Animal Logic is currently in production on a couple of Netflix Feature Animations, including The Magician’s Elephant and Warner Brother’s Toto. Recent productions include DC League of Super Pets.
Hiring Facility: Vancouver.
Visa Restrictions: International applicants welcome.
Remote Work: No.
Social Media: Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn · Twitter
Atomic Cartoons Inc. is an award-winning animation studio with locations in Vancouver’s Mt. Pleasant Animation District, Ottawa’s Hintonburg neighbourhood and LA. Since its inception over 20 years ago, Atomic Cartoons has created and produced numerous 2D and CG animation productions, including Last Kids on Earth. Atomic is well known for its artist-friendly culture and flexible work environment. We are always looking for artists of all levels to join our team!
Hiring Facility: Vancouver, Ottawa and Los Angeles.
Visa Restrictions: International applicants accepted for intermediate and senior positions.
Remote Work: Yes.
Social Media: Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn · Twitter
Bardel Entertainment Inc. is an Emmy Award®-winning studio with over 30 years of industry leading experience. Bardel’s reputation has been built on three core values: quality, creativity and innovation. Currently, Bardel provides animation services for a diverse slate of blue-chip clients, including Netflix, Warner Bros., Cartoon Network/Adult Swim, Nickelodeon, HBO Max and Disney+. With top audience hits such as The Dragon Prince, Rick & Morty, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Bardel attracts award-winning technical and animation talent from around the world. Our creative haven balances game-changing work with extraordinary play, taking pride in our animated features and famously big summer parties. Whether we’re in-person or online, in Vancouver or Kelowna, there’s a lot for Bardelians to be proud of — including our cool swag. We believe that creativity and collaboration can accomplish anything. Bardel is committed to delivering only the highest quality content.
Hiring Facility: Vancouver and Kelowna.
Visa Restrictions: International applicants welcome.
Remote Work: Yes.
Social Media: Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn · Twitter
Founded in 2021, beloFX is a next-generation visual effects and technology company. We operate globally with outstanding teams based in Canada, India, and the UK. This is an era of dramatic change in moving image technology and process. Our founding team, who have extensive experience in high-end visual effects, intend the company to be at the forefront of this transformation. At the heart of our ambition are collaborative tools that unify and optimize creative excellence, operational efficiency and client service. The liberating power of this technology enables creative organizations such as ours to work in fundamentally new ways, and develop exciting ideas for the future.
You can see our work on recently released The Peripheral on Amazon and The Last of Us for HBO. We are currently working on multiple high-profile feature films and episodic shows for Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, Sony Pictures, Skydance Media, Amazon Entertainment, HBO and Apple TV+.
Hiring Facility: Vancouver and Montreal.
Visa Restrictions: BC and QC residents only.
Remote Work: Yes.
Social Media: LinkedIn
CAPILANO UNIVERSITY: SCHOOL OF ANIMATION & VISUAL EFFECTS
CapU's School of Animation and Visual Effects offers three separate 2-year diplomas:
- 2D Animation and Visual Development,
- 3D Animation for Film and Games,
- Visual Effects for Film, Streaming & Immersive Media.
Our grad show is an annual event that studios and recruiters look forward to every year. We have over 80 talented graduates in 2D, 3D and VFX entering the industry after two years of intensive training. At SPARK’s career fair, we hope to connect with local studios and invite recruiters to visit our on-campus grad show, Friday, April 21 at the Nat & Flora Bosa Centre for Film & Animation in North Vancouver. Come visit our table for more information!
Campus: North Vancouver.
Social Media: Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn · Twitter
Cinesite is an award-winning digital entertainment studio with 30 years of experience and work on hundreds of film, TV and streaming productions. Our visual effects and animation teams breathe life into filmmakers’ visions. Alongside our skilled artists and engineers, we work closely with filmmakers and studios to achieve the impossible, whether through complex visual effects or conceiving and realizing entire animated films. We tinker, mould, and craft to blow things out of the water — sometimes literally.
Hiring Facility: Vancouver.
Visa Restrictions: International applicants welcome.
Remote Work: Yes.
Social Media: Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn · Twitter
There are no limits to what we can bring to life at CoSA VFX. We are a full-service visual effects studio comprised of a diverse team of Emmy Award-winning artists, supervisors and producers dedicated to delivering only the highest quality visual effects on time and on budget.
Hiring Facilities: Vancouver and Ontario.
Visa Restrictions: International applicants accepted for intermediate and senior positions.
Remote Work: Yes.
Social Media: Instagram · LinkedIn
The studio has worked on iconic blockbusters and Academy-nominated films such as Spider-Man: No Way Home, Free Guy, Avengers: Infinity War and Ready Player One. Our episodics and streaming group has delivered shows including She-Hulk, Ms. Marvel, Stranger Things Season 4 and Loki. From advertising and games, our artists were behind bringing Vince Lombardi back to life for the NFL’s Super Bowl LV Commercial As One, as well as David Beckham’s Malaria Must Die-So Millions Can Live campaign, and the award-winning spot for Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.
Hiring Facility: Vancouver, Montreal and Playa Vista.
Visa Restrictions: International applicants accepted for intermediate and senior positions.
Remote Work: No.
Social Media: Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn · Twitter
We are DNEG, one of the world’s leading visual effects and animation studios for feature film and television. We have over 20 years of industry experience, and we are honoured to have won seven Academy Awards® for ‘Best VFX’ in recent years.
Hiring Facility: Vancouver.
Visa Restrictions: International applicants accepted for intermediate and senior positions.
Remote Work: Yes.
Social Media: Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn · Twitter
Framestore is home to a collective of visionaries working across film, advertising, television and immersive. Our work and skillset are wide-ranging, thanks to a pool of 3000 talented artists and producers in offices across the globe.
Known globally for our visual effects, we have a proud history of creating extraordinary images and scenes for some of Hollywood’s biggest pictures, collecting every possible industry award along the way.
Our work is also seen across the advertising industry, bringing magic to the small screens that surround us every day.
Framestore has grasped the opportunities afforded by new technologies and works with brands, studios, artists and organizations to bring immersive experiences to both new and existing audiences. Fuelled by a relentless curiosity, we continue to look to the future, carving out new spaces, screens and media through which to tell stories.
Hiring Facility: Montreal and Vancouver, but we are open to discussing our open positions in our other offices as well (Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Melbourne, London, Mumbai).
Visa Restrictions: International applicants accepted for intermediate and senior positions.
Remote Work: Yes.
Social Media: Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn · Twitter
Image Engine is a world-class visual effects studio based in Vancouver, BC, that specializes in delivering stunning photoreal visual effects for feature films and television. Founded in 1995, we have grown to become a team of 400 incredibly talented artists, and we are always looking for more talent to join us. Well-known for our groundbreaking alien animations in the critically-acclaimed film District 9 by Neill Blomkamp, we have continued to produce award-winning work and were recently honoured with an Emmy Award for The Book of Boba Fett. Our recent productions include The Mandalorian season 3, Foundation season 2, Lift, 3 Body Problem, Kraven the Hunter, Willow, The School for Good and Evil, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Moon Knight, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore, Snowpiercer, Hawkeye, Venom: Let There Be Carnage, Mulan, and much more. View our portfolio.
Hiring Facility: Vancouver.
Visa Restrictions: International applicants accepted for intermediate and senior positions.
Remote Work: Yes.
Social Media: Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn · Twitter
Since 1975, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) has set the standard for visual effects, creating some of the most stunning images in the history of film. At the forefront of the digital revolution, ILM continues to break new ground in the field not only in visual effects but now virtual reality, augmented reality, immersive entertainment, and virtual production. Founded by George Lucas, ILM is the leading effects facility in the world, with studios located in San Francisco, Singapore, Vancouver, London, and Sydney. The company serves the motion picture, television, streaming, commercial production, and attraction industries. ILM has created visual effects for over 350 feature films.
Hiring Facility: Vancouver.
Visa Restrictions: International applicants accepted for intermediate and senior positions.
Remote Work: Yes.
Social Media: Instagram · LinkedIn · Twitter
Founded in 1993, Mainframe created the very first fully-CG TV series, ReBoot. Since then, we’ve produced more than 1000 half-hours of TV, over 60 feature-length projects, and two theatrical feature films. We’ve been innovators and creators since day one and have partnered with some of the biggest names in the business. Our creative-driven approach marries seamlessly with our rock-solid production processes, allowing us to deliver great storytelling that’s on time and on budget.
Hiring Facility: Vancouver and Toronto.
Visa Restrictions: Canadian residents only.
Remote Work: Yes.
Social Media: Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn · TikTok · Twitter
Sony Pictures Imageworks is an Academy Award®-winning visual effects and animation studio known for photoreal live-action visual effects, dynamic creature and character animation and full-CG features. Having created visually stunning images for more than 100 live-action and animated productions over its 30-year history the studio is also a leader in technology, developing software and tools that have helped solve industry-wide challenges and deliver spectacular visuals to the big screen.
Hiring Facility: Vancouver and Montreal.
Visa Restrictions: International applicants welcome.
Remote Work: Yes.
Social Media: Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn · Twitter
The Embassy is a Canadian, Oscar-nominated production house, specializing in live-action production, post-production, and animation for feature films, television, and commercials. We are an independent creative studio with expertise in visual effects and production. Located in the heart of Vancouver’s Digital District, we work with global production companies, agencies and brands in film, television and advertising.
Hiring Facility: Vancouver.
Visa Restrictions: International applicants accepted for intermediate and senior positions.
Remote Work: Yes.
Social Media: Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn · Twitter
Versatile Media is a global company that has created an end-to-end virtual production workflow. Our North American location is based in Vancouver, Canada, where we run performance capture and visualization stages that run on real-time technology. Our passion is Virtual Production, combining real-time rendering technology, traditional film workflows and proprietary research and development, as well as creating original animation and live-action IP. Our upcoming North American LED Sound Stages are scheduled to open in early 2023 in South Burnaby.
Hiring Facility: Vancouver and Burnaby.
Visa Restrictions: International applicants accepted for intermediate and senior positions.
Remote Work: No.
Social Media: Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn · Twitter
WildBrain creates award-winning content that’s loved by kids and families worldwide. Their animation studio in Vancouver has roots going back 30+ years and is now home to over 1,000 artists letting their imaginations run wild! WildBrain has been trusted with some of the world’s most beloved characters, including Snoopy, Sonic, Strawberry Shortcake and Carmen Sandiego, as well as original stories by renowned creators. Working with international partners like Apple, Disney, Netflix, LEGO, DreamWorks, BBC, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and more, they develop and produce animated series in a variety of styles. From 2D and CG animation, preschool to tween, comedy to mystery, WildBrain is up for anything!
Hiring Facility: Vancouver.
Visa Restrictions: International applicants accepted for intermediate and senior positions.
Remote Work: Yes.
Social Media: Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn · Twitter
Zoic Studios is an award-winning VFX company made up of accomplished artists and producers who understand story, process and relationships. Partnership, integrity and enthusiasm are our key founding principles. We have three locations, Los Angeles, New York City and Vancouver, Canada. Some of our recent credits include, Sweet Tooth, The Flash, Ozark, For All Mankind, and Yellowstone 1923."Visual Evolution" is our mission; we invest in constantly improving our technological and studio processes so that our artists can focus on being creative even in the lightning fast paced world of visual effects. We apply these principles to our work on some of the most VFX intensive film and television projects out there.
Hiring Facility: Los Angeles, New York and Vancouver.
Visa Restrictions: BC and Ontario residents only, when applying in Canada. Only US international applicants accepted for intermediate and senior positions.
Remote Work: Yes.
Social Media: Facebook · Instagram · LinkedIn · Twitter
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