Jacquie Barnbrook
Producer/Visual Effects Producer
Jacquie Barnbrook quit her lucrative entertainment
job in 2004 to start her own company. She wrote and produced
an award-winning short film called “Wear Something Nice”
as well as received a Best Actress nomination at the 2005 Method
Fest. She went on to write, produce and star in the theater
production “Jax of All Trades” to rave reviews one
of which stated that …”they would gladly watch her
read the phone book.” She is currently working with Julia
Frey on a film loosely based on her one-woman show. She is working
with Dorsay Alavi and The Working Artists Collaborative (W.A.C.)
on a TV project called “All About Margaret” where
she is the title role, Margaret.
Jacquie has been Producing since she was a
teenager. Student Films, Special Events, Still Photography (Car,
Food and Fashion), Plays and Sketch Comedy.
Jacquie Barnbrook is currently a Consulting
Producer for Sony Pictures Imageworks. She is working with the
foremost Motion Capture Film team in the world helping them
to bring Imageworks’ technology to the next frontier.
She was the Producer of Sony Pictures Imageworks’
first in-house animated short film “The ChubbChubbs,”
winner of the 2002 Academy Award® for Best Animated Short
Film. As well as being, Imageworks first Academy Award.
“The ChubbChubbs,” which was seen
in over 2,500 theaters with “Men in Black 2” and
“Stuart Little 2,” was also honored with a BAFTA
nomination and was the recipient of numerous awards including
Best Animated Short Film at the Los Angeles International Short
Film Festival and Best Short Film at LEAF (London Effects and
Animation Festival) and AEAF (Australia Effects and Animation
Festival). It is the first animated short to have its own DVD
release.
Ms. Barnbrook joined Imageworks in 1996, as
visual effects coordinator for “Anaconda.” Other
Imageworks credits and projects include: visual effects vendor
producer on “Contact;” visual effects producer on
“Paulie: A Parrot’s Tale” and “The Ninth
Gate,” and once again visual effects vendor producer on
the Academy Award®-nominated “Stuart Little.”
She worked as visual effects producer on Disney’s “The
Haunted Mansion,” working with director Rob Minkoff (“Stuart
Little 2,” “Stuart Little”). She has served
as bidding producer on several projects and contributed as digital
producer for tests and cyber-scans for the Academy Award®-nominated
“Spider-Man” and produced the original tests for
“Ghost Rider.”
Ms. Barnbrook was given the honor of producing
the Electronic Theater for the Computer Animation Festival at
SIGGRAPH 2001, a ninety-minute showcase of the industry’s
best computer generated imagery of the year.
She began her career in visual effects at Cinesite
as an executive assistant in 1994. Her skills were quickly noticed
and she was moved up to assistant coordinator on “Waterworld.”
She secured her first visual effects coordinator job on “Kazaam”
at Rhythm and Hues Studios in 1995.
“Detail is the most important thing,”
said Barnbrook. “It’s what makes us an audience
believe it’s true, seamless, real. I first learned this
as an actress and voice-over artist, but I’ve found it
applies equally to making great animation and visual effects.
My job is to make sure there is time and money to work on the
details.”