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Sep 4, 2012
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Game Art & Design

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Rob Oliveira - Art Director/Founder, United Front Games

Rob has over 18 years of experience in the gaming industry, starting his career with 6 years at Radical Entertainment working on platforms for the Nintendo NES.  From there he became the Co-Founder of Black Box Games and served there for over 3 years hiring & training their artists.  When Electronic Arts bought the company, he contined there as Art Director on NFS Most Wanted and directing the character department on Skate. Since 2007, he has been the Co-Founder and Art Director at United Front Games, where he directed Modnation Racers for Sony.

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Sean Murch - Head of Business Development, Next Level Games

Sean worked on his first video game in 1994, while working as a producer at Radical Entertainment. Before this, he enjoyed a successful career as a writer and development executive in the film and television industry, most notably as Head of Development & Sales for Nelvana Enterprises, a $550M company focused on children and youth programming; and as a development producer for director Francis Ford Coppola. More recently, Sean worked at Electronic Arts, where he designed, built and managed a department of over 100 content creators, tasked with providing art content to all of the EA Sports line of products. Before joining Next Level Games, Sean was CEO of Playful Entertainment, a boutique publishing company based in Vancouver.

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OPEN HOUSE at VanArts
May 26, 2012
Aspirations World - New Delhi
May 26, 2012 - May 27, 2012
Pixar Artists' Masterclass - 2012 TOUR
Jun 22, 2012 - Sep 29, 2012
Pixar Artists' Masterclass - Chicago 2012
Jun 22, 2012 - Jun 23, 2012
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Jun 29, 2012 - Jun 30, 2012
Pixar Artists' Masterclass - Miami 2012
Jul 13, 2012 - Jul 14, 2012
Pixar Artists' Masterclass - Toronto 2012
Jul 27, 2012 - Jul 28, 2012
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Aug 7, 2012 - Aug 9, 2012

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