I believe animators to be artists with a god complex. We see a character, an environment, or a formal element, demanding to see it move; insisting on breathing life into a moment; creating entire worlds out of mere concepts. When I was nine, I witnessed a man at Disney make Whinny the Pooh blink using only two sheets of paper and a sharpie. That moment of irrefutable magic set forth the trajectory of my life.
I was born and raised in Vail, Colorado, and moved to study art and animation at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD. After school, I moved out to Los Angeles, where I work as a freelance artist and in stop motion animation as a character fabricator. My objective is to work within the many facets of animation, to understand the industry, its struggles and potential. I wish to use my studio experience to expand and cultivate my own work, in order to contribute to the artform. I think traditional methods of animation are lost in the digital age. I believe traditional techniques can enhance the efficacy of ever evolving digital media, allowing technology to fully express the hand of the artist. It's this idea, that motivates me to animate.
send me an email: jmcrory@gmail.com
