Oddfellows
Tim Willison
Tim Willison is the director of Oddly Studios Inc., a multimedia development shop bringing ideas to life in a refreshingly creative manner. Tim is a graduate of Seneca’s Digital Media Arts program where he received the Award for Academic Excellence and was a top-three finalist for the CNMA Graduate of the Year Award. A four-year member of the Seneca Board of Advisors, he currently teaches Advanced Object Oriented Development at the college. Formerly lead of interactive development for Organic Inc., he was named an official Organic spokesperson and received the inaugural Award for Exceptional Innovation for the design and development of productivity tools.
In addition, he is a board member with the Digital Arts and Technology Association, a frequent guest speaker on subjects such as user-experience and site architecture, a prolific contributor to open-source projects and the author of two code frameworks.
In 2005, Tim founded the popular Fall Tour of Interactive Studios which has since grown to involve over 40 volunteers, four colleges, two universities, and more than twenty of the top studios in Toronto. Active in the fine-arts community, Tim created the in-house artist program at Oddly to facilitate the merging of fine arts and interactive media. In addition, he is a correspondent for OneDegree.ca, and has two short stories in printed publication.
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Recently Published Articles:
From the Ground Up – Recognizing and Retaining Creative Talent
Art from the Unexpected Report
Conversuasion
Recent Speaking Events:
Fall Tour of Interactive Studios 2009
Industry Pro ChitChat2
BMLG Mentoring, University of Toronto CCIT Program
FITC – Getting in the groove with PureMVC
Attending:
Mesh Conference
Hermann&Audrey Contact2010 Show
Attended this year:
Sheridan Interactive Multimedia Grad Show
Graduate 4.0
FITC Toronto
Podcamp Toronto 2010
AdWeek
Gamercamp
CNMA Awards
NextMedia Toronto
Conversuasion
Past Events:
Fan Expo, Toronto
Game Developers Conference, San Francisco
FITC Toronto
Graduate 3.0
Art from the unexpected
Camas Winsor
Camas Winsor is the operations director for Oddly Studios Inc. She is affectionately known as “numbers”, as she keeps everyone in line and the projects moving on time and on budget. A graduate of Queen’s University with a B.Sc. in Computing Sciences Camas started her career programming in .NET, Pearl, PhP and SQL at several internationally known agencies. After a few years, she found her true calling by moving into operations and client services. Currently, she combines her love and understanding of technical issues and business practicalities to guide and advise clients through the development process.
In her spare time Camas enjoys obsessing over the news and running after her 2 year-old daughter, Magnolia.
Sheharzad Arshad
Sheharzad Arshad (Zad) is the Art Director for Oddly Studios Inc., leading Oddly’s design and animation efforts. A graduate of Seneca’s School of Communication Arts in both the Animation Arts and Digital Media Arts programs his interest in illustration and design was further encouraged by attending art workshops at New York University.
Zad has extensive experience designing and animating engaging digital advertising for major brands at large interactive agencies. He now prefers the freedom and focus of a smaller, more targeted shop.
A prolific designer and communicator, Zad is also an instructor at Seneca’s School of Communication Arts and enjoys a large online following for his many personal creative works, including 2D and 3D animation, illustration, and design.
Adam Sullovey
Adam started with creative computer work by creating addons for racing games and first person shooters in the late ’90s. When he realized he’d need a website to share his work, he decided to learn how make those too.
After a few years of PHP and HTML work, he starting playing with Flash and realized it was a great way to combine the fun of game development and distribution capabilities of the web.
When not sitting in front of a computer, Adam likes to spend time toying with gravity through skiing and trampolines, and staring at pictures of mountains. His current personal project, Gnarshmallow, combines all of his favourite things. He’d also like to learn how to play the Ukulele.
Ian McGonigle
Ian McGonigle is an interactive developer with Oddly Studios. Ian has years of experience working in rich media for various large brands on national campaigns. He combines a love of motion graphics with a passion for object-oriented code. Ian is a music enthusiast, and does custom sound engineering for the studio. When he is not coding, Ian is mixing beats.
William Wong
William Wong is a 3D modeller and animator with Oddly Studios. He works in 3DSMax and Maya to produce highly optimized realistic models for the web. William is also fully experienced with photoshop. He enjoys multiplayer games, and assembling custom computer hardware configurations.