Resume

               Jai Husband                               

 

 

email: jai@jaihusband.com       1105 Atlantic Drive NW   Atlanta, GA 30318

 

Animation Director • Director • Animator • Designer • Screenwriter

 

Accomplished animator and director with over ten years of experience directing short form, long form, episodic and commercial animation projects, possessing a traditional art and animation background with storytelling and artistic sensibilities and skills that transcend easily to digital and live-action media.  As a director with formal theatrical and screenwriting education and experience, combines a unique creative design style and passion for art and storytelling for contribution to the great craft and canon of visual entertainment.

 

Professional Experience

 

Jairation Joint Prductions, LLC                    October 2010—Present

CEO/Creative Director

*Provided creative leadership, artistic design, and project and artist management on various commercial and post-production animation projects, Creative Development and creative pitch packaging, Illustration and visual development.

TURNER BROADCASTING/TURNER STUDIOS                   June 2000—October 2010

Senior Animation Director

*Provide creative leadership and project and artist management on various animation projects including commercials, episodic shorts, interstitials and promotional packaging for Turner Networks including Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, TBS, Turner Classic Movies, TNT, and Turner Sports.

 

*Provide creative development and production of original programming pitches for Turner Networks including script and screen writing, character design and development, style bibles, pitch materials and pilot production.

 

*Supervise a studio-wide internship co-op that mentors college students through the production of an original animated feature film.

 

DESIGNEFX/CRAWFORD COMMUNICATIONS                 January 1996—June 2000

Animation Director

*Provided creative leadership, artistic design, and project and artist management on various commercial and post-production animation projects.

 

*Supervised departmental internship program

 

TURNER INTERACTIVE/TURNER BROADCASTING         May 1995—January 1996

Lead Animator

*Provided principal character design, asset design, prop design, environment design and animation keys for original interactive video game production.

 

*Managed group of assistant animators, designers, compositors, and 3D artists in the task of interactive game design and production.

 

 

 

Education

 

MOREHOUSE COLLEGE, Atlanta GA  August 2000—May 2005

Major: Art/Concentration in Life Drawing

Minor: Theatre/Concentration in Creative Writing