Quickdraw Animation Society will be closed over Family Day weekend, February 15-17, 2025. 

This is geek storytelling pure and simple, but Carmichael has a gift for it.

Get your film ready to submit to festivals both big and small! Quickdraw is opening up a funding pool to cover captioning and DCP file creation for filmmakers who have a film they are ready to submit to festivals. Details below - apply by March 15!

Calgary Animated Objects Society is looking for an Animator & Poster Artist for a Canada Summer Jobs position!

JOB CALL: Voice Actors for Filipino Short Film

2D animation, inspiration being Japanese animation style (my brother loved Naruto), short action video with character emotion, close ups, action sequences. Estimated 1-2 minutes in length with music. 

JOB CALL: Short film for Celebration of Life

JOB CALL: 2D Animator for Turquoise Sky Entertainment

Become trained in our brand-new Rokoko SmartSuit Pro II Motion capture suit!

Students aged 8-14 learn how to make their own animations with sound!

Spring Break Animation Camp 2025 (in-person)

An introduction to the basics of animation!

Quickdraw helps animators apply for grants every year with great success - why not get paid to do something you love? 

Learn one of the most popular and free 3D animation softwares!

Intro to 3D Animation: Blender (in-person)

Become trained in our Animator Cube for an official credential on your membership!

Learn an industry-standard 2d animation software online!

Learn the fundamentals of modelling and rigging a character in Blender!

Blender 3D: Modelling and Rigging (ONLINE)

Make a film over 4 days in the in-person event!

QAS Lockdown 2024: Flashbacks Registration Page!

Join us at the Quickdraw Animation Society classroom to learn from QAS alumni and contemporary Canadian filmmaker Richard Reeves.

An overview of drawing techniques to produce your future animated films!

QAS is doing a collab with Emmedia to facilitate an Intro to After Effects workshop!

Intro to Photo Collage Animation in After Effects with Maria Munar

Learn the fundamentals of After Effects and its uses within the animation context!

2-day After Effects Beginner Boot Camp (IN-PERSON)

Become trained on how to use our Master Oxberry Animation Stand for a membership credential!

QAS Lockdown 2023: Whiplash Registration Page!

Teach your students the art of animation by making their very own flipbooks with a professional instructor!

Take a step further into the vastness of animation! 

QAS is doing a collab with SLED to bring the amazing stop motion animator NOFAC3 in to make some sweet stuff!

Plasticine Portraiture w/NOFAC3 - Sled Island + QAS Collab

PAW Packs are packages of educational materials and animations, interviews with the filmmakers, that cover various themes to help bring animation into the classroom with Alberta Curriculum Connections

The Quickdraw Animation Society’s PAW Studios use the latest in animation software, along with the expertise of our talented instructors, to bring a fully functioning animation studio into classrooms and other environments throughout Calgary.

Sign up for a one-year membership to gain access to Quickdraw's courses, resource library, and more. Whether you're a youth, a student, or a professional artist, we have the tools you need to support your animation practice.

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Quickdraw Animation Society is a member driven not-for-profit that fosters a creative community through resources and opportunities that further animation arts and culture.

Quickdraw Animation Society

A member-driven not-for-profit based in Calgary, Alberta, The Quickdraw Animation Society is a place for people who love animation. We aim to support artistic creation and build a creative community through resources and opportunities that further animation arts and culture.

Have a film that you need captioned and turned into a festival-friendly file format? Apply to our Film Finishing Fund!

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