Jason Schleifer is an American animator, character technical director, and entrepreneur.
Schleifer started his career at Alias/Wavefront where he was a product specialist during the development of Maya.
In 2003 Schleifer moved back to the U.S. to work at PDI/DreamWorks in Redwood City, CA where he became Head of Character Animation and worked on feature films including Madagascar, Over the Hedge, Megamind,[2] and Mr. Peabody & Sherman.
He also received an Honorary Doctorate of Animation from the Digital Media Arts College in Boca Raton, Florida.
In 2014 Schleifer co-founded Nimble Collective with DreamWorks alumni Rex Grignon, Bruce Wilson and Scott LaFleur.