JASON SADLER is a Visual Development Artist with 29 years of experience in film, broadcast, games and children’s products. He has designed characters, environments and style guides for animated features.
Jason studied industrial design at the University of Wisconsin and animation at Sheridan College in Ontario. His design and illustration work has been exhibited in New York and Paris and he has been nominated for two Annie awards and a Visual Effects Society award.
FILMOGRAPHY 2023 - nimona - character designer
2021 - scrat tales (streaming shorts) - lead character designer
2019 - spies in disguise - art director of characters & contributed to overall style of film
2017 - ferdinand - character designer & contributed to overall style of film
2016 - ice age : collision course - character designer
2015 - the peanuts movie - character designer
2014 - rio 2 - lead character designer
2012 - ice age : continental drift - set designer
2011 - rio - character designer
2008 - horton hears a who! - character designer
2005 - happy tree friends : protecting the slopes (streaming short) - director and production designer
CLIENTS netflix animation studios, disney animation, blue sky studios, hornet nyc, mondo media, leapfrog enterprises, art ludique le musée