DAVID BAAS

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David Baas is currently Animation Department Head at Starz animation in Toronto Canada, in charge of animation resources, training and quality for all projects. Starz animation produces feature film animation, including the upcoming Tim Burton produced feature “9’.

Mr. Baas was born in Oakville Ontario, Canada in 1968 and would later attend school there graduating from the world famous classical animation program at Sheridan College.

He was a lead animator and consultant at Alias|wavefront during the development of Maya, contributing a san animator to the award winning Computer Graphics Film "Bingo", directed by Chris Landreth.. Bingo was the first fully CG production created with Maya. Maya is now the standard 3-D animation package used worldwide.

Mr. Baas also was co-ordinator and a professor at the Computer Animation program at the Seneca College animation Arts Center in Canada. He was also a key artistic and technical contributor to the 2004 Academy Award winning Computer Animation short “Ryan” produced at the College, again for director Chris Landreth.

Mr. Baas also worked as an animation director the United States for studios such as Kleiser-Walczak and Curious Pictures on various projects.

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