🧑🎨 JOB ALERT: 🛠️
Work with the artistic director to plan a signal film up to 1 minute in length, including pre-production, production, and post production activities. The signal film artist will also use design elements from their film to create print and online digital marketing assets (for posters, flyers, social media templates, and festival website)
The ideal candidate is an emerging or early-career animator who has completed or is undertaking post-secondary studies in animation, visual arts, design or similar, or has comparable experience or training, with proficiency with animation and design tools.
The animator will bring their own style and artistic approach to the film, with the opportunity to grow their skills in their preferred animation medium.
Funding for this job is provided by the Government of Canada’s Summer Jobs Program. As a condition of this program, applicants must be a Canadian citizen, permanent resident, or person to whom refugee protection has been conferred, between the ages of 15-30 at the start of employment.
Applicants will be asked to submit:
- a portfolio or samples of work.
- their CV.
- Cover Letter discussing why you’re interested in this opportunity, working with QAS, and a simple description of an idea for the GIRAF 22 signal film.
This role requires high levels of creativity, motivation and dedication and the ability to both collaborate artistically with the QAS team, and work independently in the studio. Candidates from communities historically underrepresented In animation (women, Indigenous, racialized and LGBTQ2S+) are strongly encouraged to apply for this opportunity.
See Bio for More information.
Summer Time is Animation Time!
Kids ages 8-12 learn to animate drawings, cutout characters and plasticine, animate digitally, and more! In this fun week-long day-camp, participants learn the fundamentals of animation and how to make their very own animated films!
Participants make their own animations with one-on-one instruction, record their own voice acting and edit their films. At the end of the camp they will receive a compilation of the films created throughout the week.
Week One: July 6 - 10, 2026
Week Two: July 13 - 17, 2026
Week Three: July 20 - 24, 2026
Week Four: August 24 - 28, 2026
To register follow the link in our bio!
ATTENTION ALL INDIE ANIMATORS!
𝑮𝑰𝑹𝑨𝑭 𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 for it’s 22nd edition!
Share far and wide as the festival is looking for the most astonishing, inventive, and down-right awe-inspiring animated films made from the last two years.
Submit for free via our filmfreeway or google sheet linked in our bio!
Oops… I’m officially participating in the @quickdrawyyc Animation Lockdown 2026 🤩😬
This weekend, I’ll be working solo on a brand new animated short film from start to finish. If all goes well, it’ll be screened on May 30th (more details soon!).
Honestly really excited for this challenge (and slightly terrified in the best way possible)
Wish me luck!! 🎬
#qaslockdown2026
To oops or not to oops… ready to crash and burn at the @quickdrawyyc animation lockdown. We must of course continue with our tradition of including an inspirational Danny DeVito in our workspace set-up… (thank you to @truckcontemporaryart for letting us use the space for the weekend)!! #qaslockdown2026 #animation #stopmotionanimation
⭐️LAST CHANCE!⭐️
Get your FREE ticket to the Animator’s Town Hall tomorrow!
The Animators Town Hall is a FREE 1-day community plenary event designed for our local animation community to assist FAVA in understanding the community’s needs with the purpose of better serving animators.
Visit fava.ca for more information and to register.
This project would not be possible without the support of the EAC. @yegarts
Join us for our 19th annual Animation Lockdown: OOPS Edition. Make a brand-new animated film from start to finish during this production event!
We open our studios and make sure all our gear is available to members so that participants can jam into the studios, get inspired by peers and collaborators, connect over some sweet grub, and get weird in those weirdo hours!
Participants will enter the studios on Friday night, and leave Monday afternoon having created incredible new animated films eligible for amazing prizes at our local premiere screening May 30th at the Heather Edwards Theatre @ Contemporary Calgary
This year’s theme is 𝑶𝑶𝑷𝑺! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
𝑶𝑶𝑷𝑺 encourages the 2026 Animation Lockdown participants to make “Happy Accidents” (Bob Ross). Experiment. Get over the fear of making a mistake and have fun while reacting to little oopsies.
Link in the Bio, this will fill up so sign up today!
Introducing Erin Saunders, our first speaker for the Animator's Town Hall!
Erin Saunders is an animator, muralist and illustrator and has served as the Production Director at the Quickdraw Animation Society for the past 6 years. Through her work she has cultivated a community-based focus, and believes strongly in the power of working together with local groups and the ability they have to positively transform our communities.
About the Animator's Town Hall:
CALLING ALL ANIMATORS, you are formally invited to the Animators Town Hall, May 9th. A FREE community plenary event designed to help us better serve you.
RVSP today on FAVA.ca link in bio.
This project would not be possible without the support of the EAC. @yegarts
In this Day-Camp, students will learn the fundamentals of animation in with traditional and digital methods. Learn how to draw on a computer, animate with pencil and paper, use cut-paper animation and more! Participants will create a short animated film with sound by the end of the course. Animation Experience not necessary.
Week ONE: August 10 - 14, 2026
Week TWO: August 17 - 21, 2026
Compositing your animation elevates your drawings from flat to atmospheric.
Adobe After Effects provides several tools to combine your animations into a finished film filled with textures and unique atmosphere. Learn how to effectively manage this post-production step, along with methods and advice from experienced animator and instructor Lyndon Navalta.
Register now by finding the link in our bio and feel free to email Amanda via [email protected] if you have any questions!
🎬🎉 GIVEAWAY TIME! 🎉🎬
We’ve teamed up with FascinAsian Film Festival – Calgary to give away 🎟️ 3 PAIRS OF FESTIVAL PASSES to this year’s festival, running April 30 – May 3!
From powerful features to bold shorts and special events, this is your chance to experience an incredible lineup of Pan-Asian storytelling right here in Calgary.
✨ HOW TO ENTER
1️⃣ Follow @quickdrawyyc + @fascinasiancalgary
2️⃣ Like this post
3️⃣ Tag a friend you’d bring to the festival
4️⃣ Tell us which film you’re most excited to see 👀
💥 Each comment = one entry (enter as many times as you like!)
📲 Bonus: Share this post to your Story and tag us for extra entries!
📆 Giveaway runs until April 20 at 11:59 p.m.
🎉 3 winners will each receive a pair of festival passes
We’re especially excited to be community partners on the May 3 screening of Space Cadet — featuring work from GIRAF co-founder Brandon Blommaert 🎨
Good luck, and we’ll see you at the movies 🍿✨
#QuickdrawYYC #FascinAsianCalgary #FascinAsianFilmFestival #YYCArts #YYCEvents
GIVEAWAY ALERT: 1PM April 19th the @calgaryundergroundfilm is screening DECORADO at GLOBE CINEMA!
Enter to win by tagging who you want to bring and a 🐁 Emoji.
🐭 An unemployed middle-aged mouse suspects his entire world is merely a set, tracing the conspiracy to a corporation influencing every corner of his life.
🐤Something is wrong in the city of Anywhere. Arnold is caught in an existential crisis. His marriage is falling apart, his life feels meaningless, and he begins to suspect that everything around him is a grand illusion. When his best friend dies under mysterious circumstances, he believes a monolithic corporation is behind it. What begins as a creeping paranoia turns into a desperate flight toward something that might, just might, resemble freedom. Adapted from the acclaimed 2016 short film by director Alberto Vázquez (BIRDBOY: THE FORGOTTEN CHILDREN, UNICORN WARS), DECORADO blends biting humor with haunting beauty in a darkly comedic odyssey through our era of social control, manufactured realities, and the quest for authentic human connection.
Tickets available now via @calgaryundergroundfilm
See you at the @globecinemacalgary
