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Light-Filled Adventure: Everybody Favourite and Tang Fish

light-filled adventure: Rayani dropped out of the computer science program at Simon Fraser University and enrolled in Emily Carr University of Art + Design, but left early as the talented programer was scooped up by a company at the forefront of the industry at that time. "It was a risk ... I had no idea, as a Canadian, how I could go to Pixar," said Rayani whose peers were all taking more conservative career paths, according to CBC. Despite this his father encouraged him. When he watched that film he knew what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. Everybody favourite blue tang fish goes on a light-filled adventure in Finding Dory thanks to the team Farhez Rayani oversees. "Being a fresh immigrant to Canada he had to start from scratch. My parents decided to leave too — and they chose Canada." After growing up in Vancouver Rayani made another new start after he was hired to work in animation. He always told me always do what you love," said Rayani whose extended family were part of a wave of Indians who fled Uganda and Kenya in the 1970s to restart lives in Canada because of changes and the threat of violence after Idi Amin came to power. "As luck would have it Pierre Trudeau was in power and he opened his arms to many of the East Indians who settled here. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.