Garth Drake graduated from the Vancouver Film School and immediately went to work for Mainframe Entertainment on the wildly popular, Reboot. For the next three years he Character Animated on popular shows like Beast Wars, Shadow Raiders, Beast Machines Heavy Gear, and Action Man. In 2001 he went to work for Electronic Arts, the world's leading video game company, where he worked on games like Fifa 2002, SSX and MVP Baseball. In 2002 he returned to Mainframe to Animate on the feature film, Barbie of Swan Lake, and also did some character animation for the MTV Movie Awards 2002.
In 2004 he took over the Animation Department at the Centre for Arts and Technology in Halifax where he had great success in helping to develop students into Industry Professionals. Recently Garth worked as a Lead Animator at Halifax Film where he worked on CBC's Animal Mechanicals and the smash hit, Bo On The Go.
Karl Bauer graduated from the Centre for Arts and Technology Halifax in 2005 and for the past 3 years has been doing various freelance work.
Recent projects include the History Channel documentary series “Go Deep”. “Go Deep” is currently in it’s second season. The documentaries deal with undersea machinery and exploration. Many of the models used are quite complex and show a working detail of the technology. Karl has also worked on an instructional video for Aurora Energy tailored for Uranium Miners. This included everything from mine shafts to rock crushers, as well as representations of chemical reactions. Karl is also collaborating with 3D animation head instructor Garth Drake on an Animated Christmas music video.
In 2007 Karl spent time in the field doing modeling work for CBC’s Animal Mechanicals.
Other works include character design commissions, and logo design for local bands. Recently Karl provided a synchronized video accompaniment for the non-profit organization “Oscillations” music event “60 X 60”. This was a sixty minute performance of sixty electro-acoustic works by sixty Canadian composers. The video accompaniment was created to assist the listeners by providing information about each piece as it was played in succession.
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