Jay is Lead Vehicle Designer at Skydance Animation. With experience rooted in an industrial design methodology, the end product is functional no matter its origins in fantasy.

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Lead Vehicle designer → Skydance Animation, 2024–present Production designer → PIXAR, 2002–2024
Concept designer → Lucasfilm, 1996-2001
Industrial and Concept designer → Various, 1989–1996

Conceptualized vehicles, environments, props and weaponry for the first two Star Wars prequels. First feature film project.

  • Wall-E

  • Eve

  • Wall-E home

  • Axiom

  • Button-pusher

  • Escape pods

  • BnL logo

  • Head-build

  • Laser-packaging

  • Eye-piece replacement

  • Welding-goggle/ eye-brow

  • Optics

  • Neck

  • Treads

  • Body

  • Hand-function

  • Ankle/ undercarriage

  • Chest-plate/ Battery box

  • Battery/ 'heart'

  • Solar array

Conceptualized vehicles (characters), environments and props for first feature animation project at Pixar.

  • World GP logo

  • Francesco Bernoulli

  • Finn McMissile

  • Holley Shiftwell

  • Giulia (proto-Holley)

  • Mater's jet-pack

  • Miles Axlerod

  • Tomber

  • Zil

  • Raoul CaRoule

  • Cars 2 title transform

  • Buckingham Guard

  • Stephenson

  • Research trip sketchbook

Production designed all characters for film. Directed a character group to design tertiary characters, responsible for all primary characters. Directed color and graphic of all characters.

*includes graphics by craig foster, bob pauley and josh holtzclaw

To be continued...