I did an interview with Bardel's Animation Supervisor Trent Noble for the Vancouver Film School's main blog back in October of 2012. Trent is a graduate of both the VFS Classical Animation program, where he was classmates with Andrew Overtoom (SpongeBob SquarePants) and Yann Tremblay (Triplets of Belleville), and the 3D Animation program. I got interested in doing interviews with all three of them, since they're all amazing animators, great story tellers, and very funny guys. And I did. Trent was the first of the three.
At the time I talked with Trent, he was working with the incredible Vancouver artist Stan Douglas at the Vancouver office of the National Film Board (NFB) on a project that he couldn't say too much about because they were right in the midst of creating it, and to do so would require that, as he put it, "everybody reading this signs an NDA." But he did tell me some good stories about going to VFS and what it was like when he was first looking for work, and gave some good advice for young animators coming up. You can read the original piece here on the VFS main blog.
The augmented reality app that Trent was working on the time I first spoke with him is called Circa 1948. You can find out more about it here in this NFB Interactive Team presentation video on Vimeo (starting around 11:52).
