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.”
4.04 – 12.31.05 ALL GOOD FILMS:
Production Company 6.96 – 4.04 SONY PICTURES IMAGEWORKS:
Visual Effects Company VFX Producer: RIDING IN CARS
WITH BOYS. Produced 50 vfx and animation shots,
working as a liaison between the client and vendor. Digital Producer: SPIDER-MAN. Produced the R&D phase as well as budgeted, scheduled and crewed the VFX team for production. Also, produced the lead actor cyberscans for character animation. Nominated for an Academy Award® for Visual Effects VFX Producer: DODGE – Quiet Commercial. Produced the animation of a mouse for a 30 second spot. VFX Bidding Producer: Work with various VFX Supervisors and creative teams to come up with a methodology, budget, schedule and design of shots for potential clients. Produced concept artwork and several CG tests for these potential clients. VFX Vendor Producer: STUART LITTLE. Working as liaison between client, vendors and our facility for over 100 animated talking cats and approximately 10 - 3D matte paintings as well as took over animation production at the end of the schedule. Nominated for an Academy Award® for Visual Effects VFX Producer: THE NINTH GATE.
Set up production for 54 shots. Created and adhered to a limited
budget and schedule. Client relations in Paris and Prague. VFX Vendor Producer: CONTACT. Organized aspects of digital production as well as working as liaison between client, vendors and our facility for 140 animation and visual effects shots. Vendors located in New Zealand, Paris, San Francisco and Los Angeles. VFX Coordinator: ANACONDA. Plate shoot coordinator as well as post VFX coordinator. Organized all aspects of digital and animation production including tracking all film, video, video transfers, AVID comps, outside work, dailies, dailies notes, timing lights, etc. Organized VFX Supervisor’s schedule. 8.95 - 5.96 RHYTHM & HUES STUDIOS:
Digital Effects Company 12.94 - 7.95 CINESITE: Digital Effects
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Jacquie Barnbrook Film Producer - Awards List
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