JACOB FREY
Welcome to my online portfolio!
Hi everyone! My name is Jacob and I am an animator studying at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany.
Before my studies I have been working as a professional freelance graphic artist for five years in different advertising agencies.
So far I have worked on many projects ranging from cartoon character animation to creature animation and also created my own animated shorts. You can check them out in the projects section.
In the early past I have worked under commission for Sony Ericsson as an animation supervisor and gained international experience during my work for Disney Interactive in Brighton, UK and Psyop in Los Angeles, USA.


  
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nationality:		 03.03.1984
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TRAINING & QUALIFICATION
Autodesk Maya, Softimage XSI, Zbrush, Shave and a haircut, After Effects, Photoshop

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WORK EXPERIENCE
bio_soi STUDIO SOI Animator (Feb. 2012 - Aug. 2012)
Coming back to Germany I considered myself lucky to get an offer from studio soi in Ludwigsburg, to work on there newest book adaption of Julia Donaldson's children book "Room on the Broom". This 30 minute long short got screened on BBC One all over the UK during Christmas Day. My task was to animate the first three and the last two minutes of the film.
bio_psyop PSYOP Animator (Nov. 2010 - Sep. 2011)
After taking one year off from school to gain further international experience, I had the chance to work at Psyop in Los Angeles. Being part of the animation team I've worked on Best Buy Saving Christmas, Coca Cola Happiness Factory, Twinings and Norton Symantec.
JELLY JEFF Director / Animator (Dec. 2009 - Feb. 2010)
A little series of 20 sec. long trailers for the International Trickfilm Festival Stuttgart. Four months production time from scratch to final image.
bio_loom LOOM Animator (Nov. - Dec. 2009)
"The story of a moth being drowned in one of nature's complex cycles"
My task was to concentrate on the moth animation, involving flying and being caught in the spider's net. visit polynoid.org
bio_blackrock BLACK ROCK STUDIOS Animator (Aug. - Oct. 2009)
During my internship at Black Rock Studios I was part of the concept team for upcoming titles. I had to create all kinds of different character and creature animations.
bio_mobile MOBILE Animator (Jun. - Aug. 2009)
"A cow tips the balance of destiny." I animated several shots involving up to nine characters at a time. There were no dynamics involved and everything was done by keyframe animation. visit verenafels.de
bio_sony SONY ERICSSON AD Animation Supervisor  (Jun. 2009)
For this spot I had to take care of all animations. My main part though was to focus on all people's animations. Everything was done via Stop-Motion, so I had to move everyone frame by frame. check it out on youtube.com
bio_bob BOB Director / Animator (Dec. 2008 - Apr. 2009)
A fully cg animated short about a hamster chasing the love of his life.
This project was created with my friend Harry Fast during one of our courses at the Filmakademie. We had to create this short within 5 months.
bio_jimbo JIMBO CLEMENTINE  Director / Animator (Feb. - May. 2009)
A six minute stop-motion short about an hermit and his beloved flesh-eating plant. This project was almost entirely done by Roman Kälin and me. It was our first time doing a stop-motion project.