Animator specializing in facial performance, shot/sequence design, camera choreography and performance capture retargeting and additive animation. Also very experienced with keyframe animation on characters, digi-doubles, creatures, hard surface vehicles, crowds and fx choreography blocking. I am very versatile.

Julie Jaros

Animator specializing in facial performance, shot/sequence design, camera choreography and performance capture retargeting and additive animation. Also very experienced with keyframe animation on characters, digi-doubles, creatures, hard surface vehicles, crowds and fx choreography blocking. I am very versatile.

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Animator specializing in facial performance, shot/sequence design, camera choreography and performance capture retargeting and additive animation. Also very experienced with keyframe animation on characters, digi-doubles, creatures, hard surface vehicles, crowds and fx choreography blocking. I am very versatile.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Animator at Crickets Would Sing
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2024
Freelance character animator (2023-2024).
Animator at Special Projects
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Special Projects (2023).
Senior Animator at Atomic Fiction / Method Studios / Powerhouse Studios
January 1, 2011 - December 31, 2023
Senior animator specializing in facial performance, shot/sequence design, camera choreography and performance capture retargeting and additive animation. Also animated on characters, digi-doubles, creatures, hard surface vehicles, crowds and fx choreography blocking. Part of Method Studios Black Projects team since 2020; confidentiality prevents sharing specific work.
Animator at Powerhouse Studios
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
Animator for KING SHAKA (2023).
Animator at Method Studios - Black Projects Team
January 1, 2020 - December 31, 2023
Animator, Shot/Sequence Design.
Animator at Method Studios
January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023
BEACHCOMBER: The 2023 Kia Sportage X-Pro SUV; THE BEAR AND THE EAGLE: The 2022 Kia Sorrento; THOR LOVE AND THUNDER (2023).
Animator at Atomic Fiction
January 1, 2011 - December 31, 2023
THE WITCHES (2020); WELCOME TO MARWEN (2018); WONDER WOMAN: 1984 (2020); DEADPOOL (2016); PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017); THE PREDATOR (2018); FLIGHT (2012); STAR TREK BEYOND (2016); ALLIED (2016); COSMOS: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014); GAME OF THRONES (2015); STRANGER THINGS (2017).
Animator, Layout Artist at Imagemovers Digital
January 1, 2008 - December 31, 2010
Animator, Layout Artist; Motion Capture integration and manipulation; extensive facial animation.
Previs/Layout Artist at Kennedy Miller Mitchell Entertainment
January 1, 2007 - December 31, 2008
Previs/Layout artist in the preproduction of Sony Pictures The Justice League; collaborated with director George Miller; project cancelled two weeks before shooting.
Animator, Layout Artist at Tippett Studios
January 1, 2000 - December 31, 2007
Animator, Layout artist; worked on wide variety of characters, cameras, creatures, digi-doubles, vehicles, FX blocking etc.

Education

Continuing studies in life drawing and painting at California College of Art and Berkeley Art School
January 11, 2030 - December 12, 2025
International Program of Animation at Sheridan College
January 11, 2030 - December 12, 2025
Majored in Fine Art with a focus on drawing and mixed media at University of Cincinnati College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning
January 11, 2030 - December 12, 2025

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