{"id":423,"date":"2015-05-22T10:35:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T14:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/?p=423"},"modified":"2025-03-10T13:32:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T17:32:59","slug":"ally-rom-colthoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/ally-rom-colthoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Ally Rom Colthoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Ally-Rom-Colthoff.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"438\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/ally-rom-colthoff\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Ally-Rom-Colthoff.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"300,300\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ally Rom Colthoff\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Ally-Rom-Colthoff.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Ally-Rom-Colthoff.jpg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-438\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Ally-Rom-Colthoff.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"Ally Rom Colthoff\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Ally-Rom-Colthoff.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Ally-Rom-Colthoff.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at NSCAD University and a Certificate of Computer Animation at Sheridan College. I now work at Guru Studio in Toronto as a surfacing artist on television shows, including BBC&#8217;s BAFTA-nominated cartoon Dinopaws. In December 2014 I crowd-funded the publication of my first graphic novel, Chirault, and illustrated an entry in the Toronto Comics Anthology. I&#8217;m an incorrigible cat person, and a brush-pen and marker enthusiast.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">See:<a href=\"http:\/\/sevensmith.net\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0http:\/\/sevensmith.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at NSCAD University and a Certificate of Computer Animation at Sheridan College. I now work at Guru Studio in Toronto as a surfacing artist on television shows, including BBC&#8217;s BAFTA-nominated cartoon Dinopaws. In December 2014 I crowd-funded the publication of my first graphic novel, Chirault, and illustrated an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[18,26,43],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-visual-arts","tag-18","tag-artist","tag-writer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Ally-Rom-Colthoff.jpg?fit=300%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8vWl8-6P","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":248,"url":"https:\/\/www.esainfo.ca\/esaalumni\/benjamin-kamino\/","url_meta":{"origin":423,"position":0},"title":"Benjamin Kamino","author":"maestra","date":"March 23, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Benjamin Kamino is an artist living and working between Montreal and Toronto. 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