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BACKSTORY 

CTN founder Tina Price – is an award winning animation professional with an entrepreneurial and philanthropic streak. After 23 years at Disney and a victim to one of the largest layoffs in animation history she saw an opportunity to bring together this inspired breed of  independent creators for a membership community driven annual creativity-infused event chock full of inspiration.

 

Today, CTNX draws the global animation talent community from 16 countries and is the leading conference and festival of its kind in the world.

 

"I can’t believe this all started with a book expo in a hot tent outside of Van Eaton gallery. Actually the first one was inside with about 10 artists and I was lucky to be one of those!! " ~David Colman

 

"It’s truly a pleasure to collaborate with you Tina trough the years and an honor to have been part of CTN since day 1. But most of all, Bing and I are so blessed by your friendship. Looking forward to CTNX10 as we celebrate Mulan20!" ~Armand Serrano

Tina Price has long been acknowledged as one of the most important influences in the development of animation talent and culture in the 21st century. A statuesque figure, both literally and figuratively, her passion, courage, and dedicated advocacy has embraced the world of animation for over a decade. Tina Price is a woman of vision with a large creative palette, skill set and organizational energy.

 

Tina Price is a voting member of the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and award winning animation veteran 20+ years and 14 film credits with Walt Disney Pictures Feature Animation.

 

Tina began her career as a professional ballet dancer with New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet and Chicago Lyric Opera. She transitioned to an animation career at the age of 26 by training with Don Bluth on his independent film “Banjo The Woodpile Cat”. Following that Tina worked as a Key Clean Up Artist with Filmmation Studios from 1979 - 1983. In 1983 she entered Walt Disney Feature Animation as a Clean Up inbetweener working with Andreas Deja on “The Black Cauldron”. After her work on “The Great Mouse Detective” she entered the computer animation department in 1985 pioneering the first digital animation department at Walt Disney Feature Animation contributing digital animation to traditionally animated films and including the award winning short film shown at SIGGRAPH “Oilspot and Lipstick”.

 

Promoted to head of the computer animation department at Disney she contributed digital animation to “Oliver and Company”, “The Little Mermaid”, “Aladdin” and “Rescuers Down Under”. Still growing she entered Visual Development and designed Characters for “Hercules”, “Tarzan”, Fantasia/2000 and Dinosaur after which she was promoted to Artistic Coordinator on “Treasure Planet”. 

 

Leaving Walt Disney in 2006 Tina went on to become Line Producer working for JibJab Studios. Today Tina is most known for being the founder of The Creative Talent Network and producer of the CTN animation eXpo. The award winning international animation event. She also co-produces the Burbank Arts Festival.

 

Tina Price is an award winning pioneer 'woman in animation' noted in the book "Ink & Paint: The Women of Walt Disney's Animation" by Mindy Johnson and her CTN animation eXpo has been voted best animation event in the world second to the Annecy Film Festival.

 

More about Tina Price Film Credits: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0697180/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

 

 

“Tina maintains a well publicized organization that keeps professionals in the limelight, and introduces talent to people that otherwise might have possibly missed them. Exposure is aggressive without being obnoxious. Tina is sharp and very pleasant to work with.” ~Daniel Cooper Art Director, Walt Disney Animation Studios