Jules Mann

MY PASSION IS CREATING INNOVATIVE IDEAS INTO VISUAL REALITIES THAT TELL AMAZING STORIES. WORKING WITH CROSS DISCIPLINE TEAMS IN CREATING NEW VISUAL WORLDS AND CHARACTERS THAT BRING BRANDS TO LIFE. PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF WERE CREATIVITY AND TECHNOLOGY COVERAGE TO MAKE GREAT EXPERIENCES.

COMBINING TECHNOLOGY AND VISUAL CREATION LED ME INTO THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY, EXTENDING MY FILM EXPERIENCE INTO INTERACTIVE DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT. I AM FOCUSED ON BRINGING NEXT GENERATION GRAPHICS AND PRODUCTION PROCESSES FROM FILM INTO THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY, COMBINING AMAZING REAL-TIME GRAPHICS WITH INTERACTIVE GAME PLAY EXPERIENCES,

I BEGAN MY CAREER AT LUCAS FILM BEING MENTORED BY MANY OF THE ORIGINAL STAR WARS CREATORS. MY PASSION FOR CONCEPT CREATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF PRODUCTION LEAD ME TO EXPAND MY EXPERIENCE INTO THE COMPUTER GRAPHICS AND ART DEPARTMENTS AROUND AND THE WORLD. WORKING TO CREATE NEW WORLDS, CHARACTERS, AND LEADING MULTI TEAM PROJECTS TO FINAL.

Primary Skills:

• Creative Direction for digital and physical entertainment from inception to final product.
• Cinematic conceptual design across multiple disciplines.
• Full spectrum visual ranges from photo-realistic to highly stylized.
• Brand marketing and total 360 campaign creation and direction.
• Team leadership and a core creator/contributor to set vision.
• Cross discipline foundational style guides for alignment to all disciplines and teams.
• Precise and effective art direction reviews and collaboration.
• Global team alignment and horizontal art direction across multiple disciplines.
• Collaborate with design, sales, editorial, photo, web, social, and video teams to ensure the highest  level of visual execution across all platforms.Collaborate with design, sales, editorial, photo, web, social, and video teams to ensure the highest level of visual execution across all platforms.

Professional experience:

• NVIDIA technology corporation – Creative Art Director.
• Crystal Dynamics/Square Enix – Creative Director.
• Visceral Games (EA) – Creative Art Director.
• Electronic Arts (Maxis) – Creative Art Director.
• The Orphanage - Art Director.
• Lucasfilm – Art Director.
• Industrial Light and Magic – Art Director.
• Spy Post – Art Director.
• Mash FX – Art Director.

Role with the VES

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