A graduate of the Sheridan College Classical Animation program, Brian has worked in the animation industry for the past 26 years. He worked as an assistant animator on the feature film, Rock and Rule, character designer on the original Inspector Gadget series, and layout artist on Ewoks and Droids, Smurfs, Flintstone Kids, Laser Tag and Punky Brewster. He was the layout supervisor on Carebears and Teddy Ruxpin, and an animator on Y's the Magnificent and other short films. Brian has also worked as an illustrator for various advertising agencies whose clients included, Kellogg's, Nestle's Quik, Barbie, McDonald's, and Burger King. Brian Lemay was the Co-ordinator of the Classical Animation program at Sheridan College from 1996 - 2000. He was also an Instructor teaching Storyboarding, Layout, Character Design, Animation, Background Painting and Life Drawing from 1988 through 2000. During this same time period he also wrote new curriculum for Sheridan College, the 1st year animation curriculum for the program at Studio Saskatoon, and the curriculum for the Limcockwing school in Taiwan. In 2001, Brian left Sheridan College and moved to Seneca College in Toronto. His proposal to set up a new 2D/3D animation program was accepted by the Government and implimented in 2002. Brian wrote the curriculum for the 1st and 2nd year courses. Brian is currently teaching 2nd year Animation at Seneca College as well as Animation History, Character Design and Character Sculpting for the 3D Animation Program at Humber College in Toronto. In 2002, while at Seneca College, Brian was asked to draw the storyboards for a film entitled "Ryan", directed by Chris Landreth. "Ryan" won the 2005 Academy Award Oscar© for Best Animated Short Film. To date the film has won more than 35 international awards. In April, 2005, Brian's short pilot film "Me & Max" aired on CBC. The show is currently in Pre-production.. Click here to see Brian's resumé. In 1991 he began writing a series of books about the different aspects of animation. To date, he has written 8 books on the various animation processes, including; Designing Cartoon Characters for Animation Vol. 1, Layout and Design Made Amazingly Simple, The Advanced Layout and Design Workbook Layout Examples, Designing Cartoon Characters for Animation Vol. 2 and video Animation: The Basic Principles, These books are currently being used at many schools of animation across North America, Europe, and Asia. His book, The Advanced Layout and Design Workbook was recently translated into Korean and adopted into the curriculum of the animation schools there. There are further plans to translate the remainder of his books into Korean, Chinese and Japanese. During the summer of 2006, he completed a children's book titled, "The Skunk Who Went To Town" and is currently working as creative consultant on a 1/2 hour animated television series as well as producing and animating a series of children's music videos. He is also in the process of producing, writing and animating: Storyboarding for Animation The Animation Drawing Video Series If you have any questions for Brian, you can reach him by email at: brianlemay@rogers.com.