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

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. 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,

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'' trilogy. In 2003 Schleifer moved back to the U.S. to work at

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in Redwood City, CA where he became Head of Character Animation and worked on feature films including ''

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'', and '' Mr. Peabody & Sherman''. Jason Schleifer has a

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. 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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Jason Schleifer interview for the Animation Addicts podcast
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