Pe­te Lord knows the life of the pi­rate very well. He's been hang­ing out with Pi­rate Cap­tain and his odd band of sailors. At this year's edi­tion of An­i­mae Caribe, Lord, the co-founder of world fa­mous Acad­e­my Award-win­ning Aard­man An­i­ma­tions stu­dio, will in­tro­duce T&T to the be­hind the scenes of an­i­ma­tion in de­vel­op­ing the crew of Pi­rate! Band of Mis­fits! for the screen.

An­i­mae Caribe starts to­day with the dig­i­tal me­dia stu­dent fo­rum from 9 am at UTT John D Cre­ativ­i­ty Cam­pus on Wright­son Road. Lat­er that evening, the fes­ti­val will be of­fi­cial­ly launched at the Hy­att Re­gency Trinidad.

Lord will speak on Wednes­day at UTT Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts, dis­cussing the top­ic The Fu­ture of Stop Mo­tion An­i­ma­tion. He will al­so present some of his award win­ning shorts. The movie Pi­rate! Band of Mis­fits! will be screened at Dig­i­cel IMAX Cin­e­ma.

Lord, a vis­it­ing pro­fes­sor at the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West of Eng­land, Bris­tol, al­so co-di­rect­ed the 2002 com­mer­cial smash Chick­en Run, which starred the voice of Mel Gib­son; pro­duced the Os­car-win­ning Wal­lace and Grom­mit, the Curse of the Were-Rab­bit in 2005.

Al­so com­ing for AC 2013 is one

of NBA's finest vet­er­ans, Adon­al Foyle. Foyle is al­so sched­uled to dis­cuss the progress of his il­lus­trat­ed book in­to an an­i­mat­ed se­ries us­ing tal­ent from right here in the Caribbean.

His pre­sen­ta­tion is card­ed for Fri­day at Hy­att Re­gency. The re­tired NBA star, a Vin­cent­ian-Amer­i­can who played cen­tre, is tak­ing his il­lus­trat­ed book Too-Tall Foyle to an­i­ma­tion for­mat in a pos­si­ble col­lab­o­ra­tion with Full Cir­cle An­i­ma­tion Stu­dio and oth­er tal­ents here in Trinidad.

Al­so on the AC 2013 guest list is Trinida­di­an An­tho­ny Phills. He has been in­vit­ed to share his in­sight on how the mo­bile ap­pli­ca­tion tech­nol­o­gy can en­hance an­i­ma­tion projects. Phills, Mor­vant-born but Mon­tre­al-raised, will be host­ing a work­shop on Phone App De­vel­op­ment.

This year's mas­cot is Red­man a cheeky caiman from Ca­roni. His cre­ation was in­spired by the vi­ral YouTube link of the ad­ven­tures of some res­i­dents dur­ing a freak tor­na­do in Cen­tral Trinidad.

"Well this is my first time in this am­i­na­tion thing, but I look­ing for­ward to spread­ing the word. It takes a lot to get me out of my Ca­roni Swamp home but I need the work so I will rep­re­sent An­i­mae Caribe Fes­ti­val with pride," said the crit­ter.

Tick­ets for the IMAX view­ing of Pri­ates! Band of Mis­fits! are on­ly avail­able through AC's web­site an­i­mae­caribe.com.

Al­so, check An­i­mae Caribe's Face­book page for oth­er in­for­ma­tion.

Sched­ule

9 am: UTT Dig­i­tal Me­dia Stu­dent Fo­rum

UTT John D Cre­ativ­i­ty Cam­pus, Wright­son Road, Port-of-Spain.

Open­ing ad­dress by Min­is­ter of Ter­tiary Ed­u­ca­tion and Skills Train­ing, Sen­a­tor Fazal Karim.

Caribbean and In­ter­na­tion­al An­i­ma­tion Screen­ings, Art & An­i­ma­tion Work­shops, Gam­ing In­ter­ac­tive Dis­plays, Chalk Art, Wall Art & UTT Adobe Day.

Fa­cil­i­ta­tors: UTT Stu­dents and Staff, We Does Draw and TTAN mem­bers, In­ter­na­tion­al guests and Adobe Staff

Work­shops in Adobe Flash, Pho­to­shop, Af­ter Ef­fects and Adobe Plat­forms.

3D and 2D An­i­ma­tion, stop-mo­tion and much more.

9 am � 3 pm: Demos/Booths

Dig­i­tal Guardian �

Dig­i­tal in­for­ma­tion plat­form

Art So­ci­ety of T&T � The Im­por­tance of Tra­di­tion­al Art in a Dig­i­tal World. TBC

Carigamers � Gamers group of Trinidad & To­ba­go

He­roes Foun­da­tion � Lo­cal com­ic dis­play/de­mo Kinect for Win­dows � Kinect Dis­play TBC

TTAN � T&T An­i­ma­tion Net­work

We Does Draw � Il­lus­tra­tors/De­sign­ers plat­form

UTT Adobe Day

Work­shops - (Three con­cur­rent ses­sions. Open to stu­dents/schools on­ly)

1. Stop Mo­tion � Fea­tur­ing Soli­tary Mesa, Crab Catch­er. Joel Charles & Cas­sius Humphrey

2. 2D Dig­i­tal � Rheon Di Four, Make­si Aquan

3. 2D Tra­di­tion­al � M Moore & Shane Young Sing

5. Maya 3D An­i­ma­tion � Emer­ald Ibrahim

6. Mi­crosoft Kinect � Pro­fes­sor Michael Smith

7. ICT Hap­tics � Pro­fes­sor An­drea Kan­neh

8. DJ & Mu­sic Mix­ing � UTT Mu­sic Stu­dents

9. Aard­man's An­i­mate It work­shop

10. Com­ic Art De­mo/Work­shop - Tim Deme­ter

11. Stop Mo­tion Mod­el Build­ing � Kathi Zung

Group Work - (All Day)

We Does Draw � Chalk Art In­ter­ac­tive. Jap Wall Art in­ter­ac­tive ses­sion

Full Day Work­shop

(Two con­cur­rent ses­sions. Open to stu­dents/schools on­ly)

Ses­sion 1: Dream­works - Adam Hen­ry Cin­tiq, An­i­ma­tion Jam Ses­sion*

Ses­sion 2: TTAN � De­mo/Pre­sen­ta­tion

Ses­sion 3: Con­tent Cre­ation � Adri­an Allen Anan­si Web Se­ries

Ses­sion 4: Full Day Work­shop - Ri­ta Street. Cre­at­ing your idea for pitch­ing.*

*Reg­is­tra­tion nec­es­sary for these ses­sions. Please e-mail in­fo@an­i­mae­caribe.com

UTT AC Cin­e­ma

Screen­ing of present and past UTT and UWI stu­dent an­i­ma­tion with stu­dents present for Q&A.

5 pm: Art of

An­i­ma­tion Ex­hi­bi­tion

Cu­rat­ed by Niko­lai Noel & Luiz Vasquez, Na­tion­al Mu­se­um, Port-of-Spain. Wine and con­ver­sa­tion with se­lect­ed dig­i­tal me­dia and tra­di­tion­al artists.

(Open to the pub­lic)

7.30 pm: An­i­mae Caribe

Of­fi­cial Open­ing Cer­e­mo­ny

Hy­att Re­gency, Wright­son Road, Port-of-Spain

Open­ing screen­ing and cock­tails with re­marks by British High Com­mis­sion­er Arthur Snell and T&T Film Com­pa­ny CEO Car­la Foder­ing­ham.