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audience of 140 million viewers during its broadcast in 2004. Guest and
Mathieson designed characters, the logo, and art directed the "look" of the series and its promotion. They also trained Chinese concept, storyboard, and background artists in contemporary American animation style, procedures and technical standards. While in Beijing they were invited to the Beijing Broadcasting Institute where they gave an address. Their concept of making the main character a skateboarder resulted in the show being sold around the world as "
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in Ottawa, pioneering CG animation on their mainframe computer - then the largest computer in Canada. In 1977 she was the presenter of the
Animation Award at the Canadian Film Awards. Together with her partner Al Guest, she helped found The Canadian Animation Producers Association with Al Guest the
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In 2000, Guest & Mathieson spent 13 months directing and producing
Flutemaster. A ground-breaking animated series originating in California and produced in China, it was a hit running Prime Time on the Chinese network CCTV, where, as one of the most popular programs ever aired, it reached an
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Digital Animation Production course where they taught courses in Animation Principles - Beginning and Advanced, Inbetweening, Storyboard, Layout, Animation script writing, Drawing the Figure in Motion, and CGI Environment
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where in four years she earned her A.O.C.A. After graduation, she trained as an animator in Canada’s fledgling animation industry. Subsequently, she partnered with
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