Wayne Gilbert

Who is Wayne Gilbert?

Wayne Gilbert is a Canadian working in Vancouver, British Columbia, now Head of Animation at Vancouver Institute of Media Arts after three and half years as Senior Animation Director for EA Blackbox where he directed animation and cinematics for the ground-breaking video games "skate and skate2". He is also a Mentor for Animation Mentor, the world's premiere on-line school of animation. 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 entitled Bottoms Up and Traffic Jam, which was accepted into the Annecy International Animated Film Festival. He has authored a highly respected book entitled Simplified Drawing for Planning Animation and is working on another with a work-in-progress title of Animation - Master the Fundamentals.

Wayne is in the final writing stages of a fantasy novel titled Tooza for youth readers.

Prior to moving to Vancouver, Wayne spent nine years in northern California where he worked at Industrial Light and Magic on such films as Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and The Mummy Returns as well as numerous commercials, two of which won Clio Awards. Much of his work at ILM was reviewing animation and providing Professional Development for animators.