Adam Thomas Jones (born January 15, 1965)[1] is an American musician, songwriter, animator, and visual and makeup artist, best known as the guitarist of Tool.

[3] With experience in special effects and set design in the Hollywood film industry, Jones is also the director of the majority of Tool's music videos.

[citation needed] He was accepted into the Suzuki program, and continued to play violin through his freshman year in high school.

As a child, he had an interest in animation, turning his ideas into three-dimensional sculptures, which explains why Tool's music videos often had 3D clay effects.

Jones was offered a film scholarship but declined and chose to move to Los Angeles to study art and sculpture.

His interest shifted to film, and he began to work as a sculptor and special effects designer, where he learned the stop motion camera techniques he would later apply in Tool's music videos, such as "Sober", "Prison Sex", "Stinkfist", "Ænema", "Schism", "Parabola", and "Vicarious".

[5] Jones worked on several other films in Hollywood doing makeup and set design, including Jurassic Park, Batman Returns, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Dances with Wolves, and Ghostbusters II.

He also worked on commercials for salad dressing (never aired), Olympic Paints & Stains (Albert Einstein makeup), and Duracell (boxers and taxicabs).

On August 14, 2011, Jones performed the national anthem of the United States at the outset of WWE's SummerSlam wrestling event in Los Angeles.