About

Tyler Klein Longmire is an animator based in Mohkinstsis, Calgary AB Canada, in Treaty 7 territory. Creating work for the stage, screen, or gallery, Tyler's practice is multidisciplinary, ranging from animated films, to performance, to visual art, video games, and live interactive installations.

A full-time freelancer since 2020, Tyler splits his time between personal projects and commercial or community projects. They are currently working on a new personal animated film, Renderfamily, with support from Calgary Arts Development and The Alberta Foundation for the Arts; and God of Thunder, a 2D video game in collaboration with Calgary's Old Trout Puppet Workshop.

Previous animated films include Renderfriends, Renderrabbits, and lefty_02_writey as director/animator; Stashe and the Inner Walk (dir. Joanne Fisher) as a producer and technician; and many music videos, experiments, and behind-the-scenes contributions to the works of friends and collaborators.

Recent freelance work includes multiple large-scale projects with boutique Montreal animation studio E.D.Films, including contributions to the new Indigenous People’s Experience at Fort Edmonton Park in Edmonton, AB, winner of a Prix Numix award; as well as contributions to a large 180-degree dome show in another country, which he can't talk about publicly just yet.

Tyler works as a projection designer for theatrical performances, recently working with Major Matt Mason Theatre Collective on two shows: Premium Content, and 366 Days. He has also worked as a projection designer or video technician for in-person and streaming performances presented by numerous arts organizations in Alberta, including the Calgary Folk Music Festival, cSpace, Calgary Pride, Calgary Opera, Calgary Animated Objects Society, Making Treaty 7, ActionDignity, Sage Theatre, and Ground Zero Theatre, among others.

Coming from a theatre background, Tyler has created a number of performances and participatory experiences with his (now retired) theatre collective Humble Wonder Theatre. Together, they created risque shadow puppet peep shows, interactive scavenger hunts, and immersive VR experiences, among other merry-making and foolishness about town.

As a solo artist, Tyler creates live interactive animated experiences for the general public. His CoViz_2021: Experiments in Computer Vision, a live motion-capture media art installation, has toured throughout Alberta, and his previous interactive work has been part of many years of programming at the Beakerhead Festival of Art, Science and Engineering.

From 2014-2020, he worked as the Production Director of Calgary's Quickdraw Animation Society, an artist-run centre for independent animators. During his time there, he worked on dozens of animated films, produced the annual GIRAF Festival of Independent Animation, and generally evangelized about the art of animation to anyone who would listen. During that time, he and his fellow staff received the 2016 Sandstone City Builder Award at the Calgary Mayor's Awards for Arts Champions for their contributions to the community.

Tyler is still very involved at Quickdraw, serving on the board of directors as Vice-President, teaching the occasional class, and sitting on many committees. He also serves on the board of the Calgary Animated Objects Society, dedicated to the arts of mask, puppetry and animated objects.

He holds a BFA in Theatre from the University of Victoria, and has two very cute cats.

Content Creation Proficiencies

  • Adobe Creative Suite
    • After Effects
    • Premiere
    • Photoshop
    • Media Encoder
  • Toon Boom Harmony
  • Blender 3D
  • Dragonframe Stop-Motion
  • Microsoft Office suite
    • Word
    • Excel
    • PowerPoint
    • Sharepoint
  • Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android experience

Interactive Software Proficiencies

  • Unity 2D
  • Unity 3D
  • QLab
  • TouchDesigner
  • Augmented Reality
    • Unity
    • Snapchat
  • Virtual Reality
    • Unity
    • SteamVR
    • 360° video immersive outputs
  • Dome Content
    • 180° or 360° Dome outputs
  • Streaming and online interactive
    • OBS
    • Zoom concerts, performances, events, meetings, conferences
    • Online broadcast over YouTube, Vimeo, Twitch
    • Online videoconferencing for artistic performance: VideoNinja, OBS
    • Website and platform integration: Instagram, Facebook Live
  • Content + Project Management
    • WordPress
    • GitHub
    • Notion
    • Custom web portals
    • Database management