Jason Schleifer
Creative Director - Griptape
Western Lake, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Schleifer is a creative technology leader and director with 25+ years influencing character animation, pipeline tooling, and studio strategy across DreamWorks, Weta, Nimble Collective (acquired by AWS), and AWS itself. As a co-founder and head of creator success at Nimble he blended empathy-driven support with technical problem-solving to help studios produce standout animated content at scale. He combines deep hands-on expertise in animation, character rigging, and pipeline development with leadership roles as Chief Creative Officer and Creative Director, mentoring artists globally. A member of the Academy’s Short Films and Feature Animation branch, he moves fluidly between creative direction and engineering pragmatism. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, Jason is as comfortable diving into rigging details as he is designing studio-wide workflows and has a knack for making complex pipelines feel playful and productive.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.A High Honors Art Studio, B.A High Honors Art Studio at UC Santa BarbaraHonorary Doctorate Animation, Honorary Doctorate Animation at Digital Media Arts College
Github Skills (24)
python10
llm10
huggingface10
openai10
ai10
gpt10
anthropic10
claude9
nlp9
blender8
stable-diffusion8
mcfunction8
pytorch8
llvm8
harmony7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
griptape-ai/griptape-trade-school
Aug 2023 - Dec 2024
Griptape Trade School mkdocs
Contributions:46 reviews, 180 PRs, 235 pushes in 1 year 4 months
griptape-ai/ComfyUI-Griptape
May 2024 - Mar 2025
A suite of Griptape nodes for ComfyUI
Contributions:52 releases, 2 reviews, 302 PRs in 10 months
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