Spicy Cricket Animation

Angie Jones – Animator/Supervisor

Angie thoroughly enjoys the storytelling possibilities in animation and visual effects. Over the past 15 years, she has created CG animation for film, music videos, ride films, games, and commercials. Her specialty is character and creature animation. The challenge of moving back and forth amongst the "sweet and endearing" and the "evil and deadly" is what she really enjoys about her job. Her strengths are pre-visualization (on set for the shoot or in production), early development of motion and character personalities, leadership and mentoring of animation teams, character and creature animation, and studio pipeline consulting/organization of shows on film, games and commercial.

As a character animator for feature film her credits include: VES award winning Stuart Little 2; the 3 time Oscar-winning Pan’s Labyrinth; XMEN 2, Stealth, National Treasure 1 & 2, Zoom, The Cave, Scooby Doo 2, Garfield and Freddy VS. Jason. Her commercial work was nominated for numerous awards including the Amp Energy drink spot – “Paper Men,” which won Digital Domain a Bronze Clio and a VES nomination for Outstanding Character Animation. As an animator for games, she worked at Oddworld Inhabitants on 22 minutes of gorgeous Cinematics for both Abe’s Exoddus and Munch’s Oddysee. Angie also led teams on several AAA PS2 games for CAPCOM Japan and Angel Studios/Rockstar Games including: Read Dead Revolver, Dino Crises 3, Oni 2 Prototypes, TRW Surf, Smuggler’s Run, Off-Road and Midnight Run.

In addition, Angie has consulted shows, both big and small. Everyone needs a little help with the challenges that production brings. From pipeline structures for feature films with Disney; to studio structures, team building and implementations at the commercial boutique Motion Theory; and finally, refining the character toolset at Side Effects for Houdini v9 software in Toronto. Over the years, Angie has advised many studios towards successful animation production and technology.

She has written 3 books on animation. Her most recent and popular book: Thinking Animation: Bridging the Gap Between 2D and CG. Angie has also taught at several institutions in the Los Angeles area and serves on the Advisory Board for the LA Film School. She lives at the beach in Venice, CA where she spends her spare time painting in oil on very large canvases and skate boards.

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Currently, I am available for off-site or on-site production. I seek out opportunities in supervising animation and consulting for long format projects, on set pre-viz supervision and rising studios.

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I also develop original content...click on the stories button above to see some pitches. To find out more, email me at angie@spicycricket.com.

Currently she has several stories including "The Legend of Spicy Cricket" and one short CG film in development. For more on these projects, see below.