Jason Schleifer is currently the Head of Character Animation on PDI | Dreamworks’ new film. Previously, he was Head of Character Animation on the 2010 animated picture Megamind and a Supervising Animator on Night of the Living Carrots and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. Schleifer has animated on Madagascar, The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper, Over the Hedge, and Shrek the Third. Prior to his career at PDI | Dreamworks, Schleifer had extensive involvement at Weta Digital beginning as a Creature Technical Director, and later promoted to an Animation Lead while making The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

In addition to his film career, Schleifer has developed a couple of DVD’s for Autodesk’s Maya on creating animation rigs, as well as being a co-author and co-presenter in a SIGGRAPH 2002 course on character rigging.