Animation and Gaming Careers

Animation and Gaming Careers

Animation and Gaming is the single fastest growing industry. Games alone have brought in more revenues than all of Hollywood combined over the past few years. Many high school students play games, and hopefully more then a few have an interest in learning how to make these games.

NBCC Miramichi has been offering programs in Animation and Gaming for over a decade; our programs and very strong and our graduates are sought after all over. Gaming includes 3D Design, Level Design, and Game Programming. Game programmers are especially in demand with many of our students juggling multiple offers, local and non-local, before they graduate.

Since Gaming is a male-dominated industry, females qualify for the Wage Gap initiative that covers their first year of tuition completely.

Please share the Jalloo press release, below, with your art and technology teachers and your students. Anyone may register for and attend the Jalloo Festival and learn more about the Animation and Game industry.

At 4pm on the afternoon of 12 June, the Showcase is open to the general public, allowing non-attendees a chance to see some of the work being done right here in NB. We would love to help you arrange to bring in your grade 11 and 12 students to attend the showcase and see the industry-level productions as well.

Please contact us if you have any questions about our programs and the Jalloo Festival.

Heather.fowler@gnb.ca – questions about the Animation and Game programs
jobfair@gnb.ca – questions about Jalloo

Thank you
-Brian McGee


Jalloo Brings International Stars of Gaming and Animation to Miramichi

The oddly named Jalloo Festival of Animation and Games is bringing in guest speakers from all over the world to speak about the Animation and Games industry. In addition to guests from local industry (NB, PEI, NS), experts from Boston (US), Hamburg (Germany), and Reykjavik (Iceland) are coming to talk about Games and Animation at the first annual Jalloo Festival on June 11-12 in Miramichi NB.

Guests include animator Willy Ashworth (Babar, Ewoks, CareBears, Tiny Toon Adventures), 3D artist Chaz Sutherland (The Matrix: Path of Neo, Medal of Honor: Rising Sun, The Golden Compass), animator Ron Doucet (Johnny Test, Oliver’s Adventures, Speed Racer), game designer Ryan Shwayder (EverQuest II, Fighting Legends), and game artist Ben Mathis (Tony Hawk Project 8, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Ghost Recon 2).

“The Miramichi [campus of NBCC] has been producing graduates in Animation and Gaming for over 10 years.” says Heather Fowler, Head of the Applied Arts Department which is home to the Animation and Gaming programs. “Our graduates are working all over now. The Jalloo Festival helps to serve as a focal point for the local Animation and Games industry allowing them to mingle with international companies, network, and learn. Industry related panels, workshops and networking events make up most of the Festival activities.”

The Jalloo Festival will be showcasing clips from Animation companies, games and demos from Game companies, and work from students in both Canada and the US. The festival will close with a showcase of work by graduates of the two-year Animation, 3D, and Electronic Game Design programs as well as graduates from the Advanced Applied Arts Diploma program, an optional one-year “post-grad” program where graduates from the two year programs complete a 1 year internship with the Department of National Defence at CFB Gagetown.

Complete guest and event listings are available at http://jalloo.net








Please address questions to John O’Shea at jobfair@gnb.ca

Brian McGeeInstructorElectronic Game DesignNBCC Miramichi506-778-6797brian.mcgee@gnb.ca