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About Jason Schleifer
- 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 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, and Mr.
- Peabody & Sherman.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.
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