The Digital Animation Industry Guest Lecture Series Friday, December 10th, featuring Jason Schleifer, Head of Character Animation at DreamWorks.
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Jason Schleifer is currently Head of Character Animation at DreamWorks. Before joining DreamWorks, Jason worked at Alias Wavefront and at Weta Digital, where he worked on all three Lord of the Rings Films. He will be speaking about what it means to be a feature film animator, and techniques used for character animation. Some of Jason’s film credits include:
2010 Megamind (head of character animation)
2009 Monsters vs Aliens (character development)
2008 Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (supervising animator)
2007 Shrek the Third (animator)
2006 Over the Hedge (animator)
2005 The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper (short) (animator)
2005 Madagascar (animator)
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (animation lead: Weta Digital)
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (senior animator: Weta Digital)
2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (creature technical director: Weta Digital)
SCHEDULE:
11:00am - 12:00pm - Jason will be speaking about DreamWorks, and the newly released “Megamind”. Location: Starz FilmCenter, Theater TBD. Lecture open to the public!
2:00pm - 4:00pm - Jason will be speaking about what it means to be a feature film animator, and techniques used for character animation. Location: Starz FilmCenter, Theater TBD. Lecture open to the public!
