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Jamie Williams

Senior

Adobe Photoshop
Drawing
Digital Painting

Hello! I'm Jamie, a visual development artist and background painter currently experimenting in VR and blender. Dipping my toes into the deep waters of animation, giving flirty eyes at games.

Biography

With 8 years of experience, I have worked across multiple different projects in animated shorts, series and features.

I started my career by shipping myself off to Tokyo, apprenticing under industry veteran Yoshikatsu Matsumoto while employed at Polygon Pictures.

Following my time in Japan I travelled around the world while occasionally basing myself in Iceland as a freelancer working for Passion Pictures, Netflix and Flying Bark. I worked across disaplines starting with bluesky visual development all the way through to compositing the matte paintings I created.

In 2024 I had the honour of working full time in London as a senior background artist at Hanna-Barbera Europe. During my time in the bustling metropolis I designed new locations and provided high quality background art for The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball. Proximity to the vast animation networks and pitching at Warner Brothers kickstarted my interest developing my own animated projects and pitches.

Currently I am based in Munich working as a freelance Visual Developement artist and Background Artist for animation. I have also worked on smaller projects locally provind illustration work.
My passion is in experimenting with interesting new techniques and bringing more life and movement to my work. I am deeply interesting in sculpting in VR and creating digital sets in blender.

Skills

Roles

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Technical Skills

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Software

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Soft Skills

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Languages

  • Fluent/Native

Other Skills

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Work Experience

2025 – 2026

Senior - Visual Development Artist (Freelance)

Spiridellis Bros. Studios (Remote )

-Bluesky visual development and advanced hybrid matte painting for unreleased short.
Role included every phase of production from early design to 3D projection painting and compositing.

-Bluesky visual developemnt for unreleased feature film.

2024 – 2025

Senior - Background Artist (Full Time)

Hanna-Barbera Europe (London)

Senior Background Artist, designing and painting backgrounds for The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball.

Role involed designing new locations, providing matte paintings, 3D set creation, projection painting, and compositing.

2023 – 2023

Intermediate - Visual Development Artist (Freelance)

Flying Bark | Netflix (Remote)

Visual development, packeting and prop design for Stranger Things - Tales from 85

2022 – 2023

Intermediate - Visual Development Artist (Freelance)

Passion Pictures (Remote)

-Bluesky visual development for unannounced short + 2D/3D projection eperimentation

-Visual development and matte painting for Guerrilla Games' game trailer

2019 – 2022

Visual development artist/Background artist/3D texture painter

Polygon Pictures (Tokyo)
I provided visual development for various projects involving both series and feature. Later into the productions I then acted as a background painter and 3D texture painter.

2019 – 2019

Background Artist

Meantime Media (Norwich, UK)
I designed and painted backgrounds for an animated ad campaign.

2017 – 2017

Background designer/painter

Screen South (Norwich, UK)
I designed and painted the backgrounds on an animated short for the Channel 4 (UK) Random Acts block.

Education

2015 – 2018

Bachelors

Norwich University of the Arts

Animation

I studied Animation for 3 years and partook in the Erasmus programme during my second year. For this I studied Mixed Arts at ESA Reunion on the island of Reunion.