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S06E03: Don Perro: Animation Mentor
Growing up among the steel mills of Hamilton, Ontario, Don
Perro knew he wanted something different for his life but when
his first attempt at getting out failed, he knew he needed to
cast his net wider and the result was acceptance at art school
in Vancouver where he found his comrades among the misfits
studying animation at Emily Carr College of Art and Design
(now known as Emily Carr University of Art and Design).
It was here that Don fell in love with education and he set a
goal for himself: work in the industry for a decade and then
turn his life to teaching, a goal he achieved just shy of his
10-year plan.
In our lively discussion, Don recounts some of the experiences
that shaped his career, from the string of rejection letters
and bad interviews that nudged him in the direction of finding
his true calling, to his experience setting up the
world-renowned animation program at Capilano University and
his 20+ year career as an educator.
Episode Links
Website
LinkedIn
Host: Marina Antunes
Opening & Closing Credits by: Michael Edlund
Produced & Edited by: Joshua Peterman
©2024 Spark CG Society · All Rights Reserved.
Thank you to our sponsors!
TERABYTE: Creative BC.
MEGABYTE: Animal Logic · Capilano University · Netflix.
KILOBYTE: Bardel Entertainment · Industrial Light & Magic · The Little Dev Shop · Sony Pictures Imageworks · WildBrain Studios.
BYTE:Cinesite · DigiBC · Vancouver Film School.
PARTNERS: ACM SIGGRAPH · SIGGRAPH Asia.
ORGANIZERS: Spark CG Society · Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH.
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By The Spark podcast is a production of the Spark Computer Graphics Society.Growing up among the steel mills of Hamilton, Ontario, Don
Perro knew he wanted something different for his life but when
his first attempt at getting out failed, he knew he needed to
cast his net wider and the result was acceptance at art school
in Vancouver where he found his comrades among the misfits
studying animation at Emily Carr College of Art and Design
(now known as Emily Carr University of Art and Design).
It was here that Don fell in love with education and he set a
goal for himself: work in the industry for a decade and then
turn his life to teaching, a goal he achieved just shy of his
10-year plan.
In our lively discussion, Don recounts some of the experiences
that shaped his career, from the string of rejection letters
and bad interviews that nudged him in the direction of finding
his true calling, to his experience setting up the
world-renowned animation program at Capilano University and
his 20+ year career as an educator.
Episode Links
Website
LinkedIn
Host: Marina Antunes
Opening & Closing Credits by: Michael Edlund
Produced & Edited by: Joshua Peterman
©2024 Spark CG Society · All Rights Reserved.
Thank you to our sponsors!
TERABYTE: Creative BC.
MEGABYTE: Animal Logic · Capilano University · Netflix.
KILOBYTE: Bardel Entertainment · Industrial Light & Magic · The Little Dev Shop · Sony Pictures Imageworks · WildBrain Studios.
BYTE:Cinesite · DigiBC · Vancouver Film School.
PARTNERS: ACM SIGGRAPH · SIGGRAPH Asia.
ORGANIZERS: Spark CG Society · Vancouver ACM SIGGRAPH.
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