Interviews With Creative People

A little while ago I did some work for the Vancouver Film School (VFS). During my contract with them, I had a lot of great conversations with gifted instructors, industry mentors, talented designers, compositors, actors and animators, which were published anonymously on the main blog, and with my byline on the Game Design blog site Arcade and the Digital Design site oomph!. My last interview for VFS was with Yann Tremblay, which I posted a link to in my last post, along with the other two graduates of the Classical Animation program I posted links to in earlier posts, (Trent Noble and Andrew Overtoom), but there were some other memorable interviews with amazing people I'd like to mention, including:

• Compositor Annabelle Kent
• Riot Games' Senior Development Manager Zoe Curnoe
• Actress Emilie Ullerup

Great Game Designers of the following games:

• Luigi's Mansion
• Major Hertz
• Frocket
• Pulse

Plus these star individuals who are all involved in games:

• Technical Level Designer Jeffrie Wu (Sleeping Dogs)
• Mission Designer Cory Hasselbach and Narrative Director Armando Troisi, who both worked on Halo 4
• Game Creative Director Brian Hayes (who was actually a Classical Animation grad, but ended up in Game Design working for Electronic Arts)
• Saint's Row IV designer John Brunkhart (I was uncredited for this one)

I'm very grateful to all of them for their time and I enjoyed interviewing these talented people so much that I plan to keep doing it with other artists and entertainment figures on my own time.

Emilie Ullerup — Star of Sanctuary and Arctic Air

I first met Emilie Ullerup when she was playing the role of Ashley Magnus in the Science Fiction series Sanctuary, back in 2007, just before she took the role of Kaitlin Joyce in the CBC adaptation of Douglas Coupland’s book JPod. I interviewed her (and the rest of the main actors) in character while on the set of Sanctuary. It was pretty interesting, and I got to see her do some great work. I remember the fight choreographer being amazed at how quickly she learned the moves. It was no wonder she has been such a successful action heroine. She struck me as a great young talent. And considering how busy she's been since she moved here from Denmark and graduated from the VFS Acting Essentials and Acting for Film & Television programs, it's apparent that many others agree.

I spoke again with Emilie Ullerup back in February 2012 for the Vancouver Film School (VFS) main blog about her education and her experience as an actress in Canada, and where she sees herself going next. She currently plays the role of Astrid in the Canadian drama series Arctic Air, which has been renewed for another season. Emilie is an intelligent, versatile and fierce actress. She was great to talk with. You can read the full interview here on the VFS blog.