Jason Schleifer
BornApril 3, 1973
OccupationCo-founder
EmployerNimble Collective

Jason Schleifer (born April 3, 1973) 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 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

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

  1. ↑ Jason., Osipa (2007). Stop staring : facial modeling and animation done right (2nd ed.). Indianapolis, Ind.: Wiley/Sybex. pp. Acknowledgments. ISBN 9780471789208. OCLC 500302465.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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