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 Project Overview

Global Learning & Engagement Initiative

 Project Overview

Global Learning & Engagement Initiative

United global creative teams in a two-week learning and engagement initiative focused on leadership development, cross-functional collaboration, and celebrating studio innovation across animation, VFX, and games.
United global creative teams in a two-week learning and engagement initiative focused on leadership development, cross-functional collaboration, and celebrating studio innovation across animation, VFX, and games.

Garrett Fry -
Director of Learning and Org Development

Creative Project Owner
Graphic Design
Curriculum Design
Coordination an Correlation
Leadership Training Presenter
Garrett's Full Profile

Clients

Technicolor Creative Studios

Key Team Members

Matt Cruz - Operations Manager
Jon Hunt - Senior Content Manager

Special Thanks

Maria Andrews - People Director
In response to a challenging year impacted by industry strikes, Technicolor Creative Studios launched a studio-wide corporate training event to unite teams, reinforce leadership, and celebrate creative success. This two-week event served as both a development accelerator and a cultural touchpoint, bringing together talent from Mikros Animation, The Mill, MPC, and Technicolor Games for leadership workshops, personal development classes, technology demonstrations, and project retrospectives. The event showcased innovations in studio workflows and key projects such as Transformers, Ferrari, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Designed and facilitated by the Learning & Development team, the event included custom branding, internal marketing, and multimedia support to drive engagement across global teams.

In response to industry-wide disruptions, Technicolor Creative Studios launched Crafting Your Future — a global training and engagement initiative designed to reconnect teams, reinforce leadership capabilities, and showcase creative achievements. This two-week event served as both a development accelerator and cultural reset, bringing together talent from Mikros Animation, The Mill, MPC, and Technicolor Games.
The program featured leadership workshops, personal growth sessions, technical showcases, and brand retrospectives tied to high-profile projects like Transformers, Ferrari, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Designed and led by the L&D team, the initiative included event branding, internal marketing, and multimedia support to maximize engagement across 11 countries and four creative brands.

Learning Challenge

Strengthening Culture, Capability, and Community Post-Disruption
Strengthening Culture, Capability, and Community Post-Disruption

Rebuilding Studio Culture at Scale

After a year impacted by industry strikes, the event served as a unifying moment to reengage global teams and reinforce shared identity across business units.

Enabling Leadership in Creative Roles

Recognizing the technical bias in creative career paths, the event prioritized leadership mindset and soft skills development to support professional growth.

Showcasing Innovation Across Pipelines

Studio demos featured advanced workflows — from real-time post in Unreal Engine to film previsualization — to foster knowledge sharing and inspiration.

Celebrating Brand-Specific Excellence

Each brand was spotlighted through curated sessions that recognized major project milestones and promoted visibility across creative divisions.

Event Branding

Inspiring Growth Through Bold, Unified Branding
Inspiring Growth Through Bold, Unified Branding
I developed the Crafting Your Future identity to capture the energy of the event and visually connect our global community. Vibrant, bold design elements were applied across videos, internal sites, and social content — reinforcing the themes of growth, creativity, and collaboration.
Inspiring Growth Through Bold, Unified Branding
Driving Excitement for Leadership Growth
To promote my Artistic Leadership Workshop, I produced a short promo video shared across internal platforms — building momentum for soft skills sessions and driving multi-time zone attendance.

Training Curriculum

Empowering Artists with Mindset, Clarity, and Workflow Awareness

Curriculum Highlights

Empowering Artists with Mindset, Clarity, and Workflow Awareness
My training segment focused on strengthening professional mindset and production readiness through three core areas: understanding one’s role in a client-driven studio, identifying and removing workflow blockages, and managing thinking errors that can derail communication and performance. By combining psychological insight with practical production strategies, artists were equipped to work more effectively, collaboratively, and confidently within a fast-paced creative environment.
Know Your Role
Understanding your role means seeing the full picture of studio work—delivering high-quality content on time and on budget for the client, not just pursuing personal artistic vision. When artists align with the client’s goals, they’re more likely to embrace feedback, follow production standards, and act as part of a collaborative, trusted team.
Production Blockages
Production success depends on maintaining flow, which is regularly threatened by task, communication, and technical blockages. A clear support request framework and the "review funnel" help manage revisions efficiently—artists should avoid pulling work back up the funnel, as only clients can do that, and they pay for those changes.
Thinking Errors
The stories we tell ourselves can distort reality and drive unhelpful behavior, especially when shaped by cognitive distortions like black-and-white thinking, catastrophizing, and mind reading. Learning to recognize and reframe these errors helps artists stay grounded, reduce internal chaos, and respond more constructively in high-pressure environments.

Event Agenda

Global, Virtual, and Interactive Learning Across Brands
Global, Virtual, and Interactive Learning Across Brands

This fully virtual, studio-wide event brought together global teams across 11 countries through a mix of live and pre-recorded sessions. Covering leadership, soft skills, technical training, and proprietary pipeline demos, the curriculum was designed for flexibility, engagement, and global access. Live sessions featured high participation and were recorded for on-demand viewing via a branded event site.

Technical & Pipeline Training

MPC VFX

Previsualization for Film

Los Angeles, USA
Patrick Smith, Katie Hooten
MPC VFX

Unreal in Post-Production

Los Angeles, USA
Mariana Acuna Acosta

Project Showcases

MPC VFX

Vikings: Valhalla

Toronto, Canada
Ben Mossman
MPC VFX

Ferrari

Toronto, Canada
Chris Ritvo
MPC VFX

Little Mermaid

London, United Kingdom
Rich Little
MPC VFX

Transformers

London, United Kingdom
Rich Little
MPC VFX

Ant-Man and the Wasp

Toronto, Canada
Craig Calvert
Mikros Animation

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
From Concept to Build

New York, USA
Sabine Heller
Mikros Animation

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
Animation

New York, USA
Scott Carroll
Mikros Animation

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
Look Dev

Paris, France
Nicolas Bruchet

Leadership & Soft Skills Development

Technicolor Creative Studios

Advancing Careers Through Soft Skills Mastery

Los Angeles, USA
Garrett Fry
Technicolor Creative Studios

Harnessing The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Paris, France
Mary Vinette

Studio Retrospectives

Technicolor Games

Technicolor Games Biggest Titles of 2023

Bangalore, India
Paul Holders
The Mill

The Mill 2023 Year Retrospect

London, United Kingdom
Mark Benson