Jason Schleifer is an American animator, character technical director, and entrepreneur. Schleifer started his career at Alias/Wavefront where he was a product specialist during the development of Maya. His technical expertise in character rigging[1] led him to work as a character technical director and eventually animation lead at Weta Digital where he helped create and animate the character, Gollum for the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In 2003 Schleifer moved back to the U.S. to work at PDI/DreamWorks in Redwood City, CA where he became Head of Character Animation and worked on feature films including Madagascar, Over the Hedge, Megamind,[2] and Mr. Peabody & Sherman.[3]
Jason Schleifer | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Co-founder |
| Employer | Nimble Collective |
Jason Schleifer has a B.A. in High Honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He also received an Honorary Doctorate of Animation from the Digital Media Arts College in Boca Raton, Florida.
In 2014 Schleifer co-founded Nimble Collective with DreamWorks alumni Rex Grignon, Bruce Wilson and Scott LaFleur.
Filmography
edit| Year | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Bingo (short) | additional character animation |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | creature technical director |
| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | senior animator |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | animation lead |
| 2005 | Madagascar | animator |
| The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper | animator | |
| 2006 | Over the Hedge | animator |
| 2007 | Shrek the Third | animator |
| 2008 | Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa | supervising animator |
| 2009 | Monsters vs. Aliens | character development |
| 2010 | Megamind | head of character animation |
| 2011 | Megamind: The Button of Doom (video short) | head of character animation |
| Night of the Living Carrots (video short) | supervising animator | |
| 2014 | Mr. Peabody & Sherman | head of character animation |
| Rocky and Bullwinkle (short) | head of character animation | |
| 2017 | The Boss Baby | head of character animation (pre-production) |
| Disrupted (short) | animator | |
| Coin Operated (short) | animator |
References
edit- ^ Jason., Osipa (2007). Stop staring : facial modeling and animation done right (2nd ed.). Indianapolis, Ind.: Wiley/Sybex. pp. Acknowledgments. ISBN 9780471789208. OCLC 500302465.
- ^ Richard., Von Busack (2010). The art of DreamWorks Megamind : bad, brilliant, blue. Dreamworks Pictures. San Rafael, Calif.: Insight Editions. pp. 65, 156. ISBN 9781608870042. OCLC 651075365.
- ^ Jerry, Beck (2014-02-11). The art of Mr. Peabody & Sherman. Burrell, Ty, 1967-, Ward, Tiffany,, Minkoff, Rob,, Dreamworks Pictures. San Rafael, California. pp. 38, 41, 112. ISBN 9781608872589. OCLC 859046240.
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