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               Jai Husband                             


email: jai@jaihusband.com       1082 Astor Ave SW   Atlanta, GA 30310

Art Director •  Designer • Director • Animator • Screenwriter

Accomplished animator and director with over fifteen years of experience Art directing, Production supervising, and directing short form, long form, episodic and commercial animation and advertisting projects, possessing a traditional art and animation background with storytelling and artistic sensibilities and skills that transcend easily to digital, print and live-action media.  A unique creative design style and passion for art and contributing to the great craft and canon of visual media and 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.

*Supervised from inception to completion, creative development, creative propperties, promotions and orginal web series and feature film producton.


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