Quickdraw Animation Society

Fun at the making Flipbooks!

Make sure you check out the festival on until June 13th.

Thanks for inviting us!

Join the Quickdraw Animation Society’s Board of Directors!

Volunteering for the board is a great way to build community, lend your skills to a great cause, and gain experience in the non-profit arts sector.

We are especially looking for folks interested in fundraising or leading some of our committees such as the library or accessibility committees. Board members will be asked to attend an online meeting once per month to discuss the happenings at quickdraw, as well as expected to volunteer to assist with our casino fundraising, GIRAF festival and ongoing Quickdraw endeavours! Board members help to steer Quickdraw’s future alongside our awesome staff and volunteers, add your voice to the conversation!

If interested in being nominated for a position, contact [email protected] with a letter of intent.

🦴🩻 2026 QAS Lockdown OOPS! Community Award 🩻🦴

𝑩𝑬𝑹𝑳𝑰𝑵 𝑫𝑬𝑴𝑼𝑻𝑯!

This is a very special award with very specific requirements:

1. You must have participated in 10+ years of animation lockdowns with your Mother, sisters, cousins, and aunt.

2. In last years animation lockdown, anticipate the next years theme by ‘accidentally’ falling down a flight of stairs resulting in you breaking your arm. Yet, you continue to make your film with your off hand. OOPS!

3. (despite last years experience), graduate art school and bring 2 new QAS members into the event for 2026. You create a wonderful film with them while showing them the ropes and introducing them to QAS.

Sounds like an impossible set of requirements for the average person? Well, Berlin did it all and more and that is why she is award the 2026 QAS ANIMATION LOCKDOWN COMMUNITY AWARD!

🎨 🪚 DAVE RATZLAFF BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM AWARD (SPONSORED BY CAOS) 🪚🎨

𝑲𝒏𝒐𝒃 𝑫𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝑰𝑰 by Caro Ging, Jacqueline Huskison, Alyssia White

In his time, Dave Ratzlaff was the backbone of experimental animation at Quickdraw. He was a mainstay at the space who worked diligently to keep every weird and wacky tool prepped and ready for the next new idea. He was at once the ultimate collaborator, contributing all kinds of skills to a long list of friends’ projects, and also a lone wolf, working privately on his own cameraless practice. He was unassumingly quiet; a kind, funny, creative, supportive and gentle guy whose films betrayed a bold artist deeply in love with the process of animating, and one who valued experimentation as a key cornerstone of Canadian animation. (written by Keltie Duncan 2024 QAS Lockdown jury)

A delightful combination of claymation, stop motion animation, and found footage, K**b Dingers II, takes the viewer on a madcap ride-along with a pinball in play. And what a fun ride it is! The nonstop spinning, bouncing, and bashing complemented with comical close-ups and zany sound make for an entertaining film and a stand out in this category. Congratulations!

By Joanne Fisher on behalf of the 2026 QAS Animation Lockdown Jury