jamie williams

Digital Background Landscape Painter Snow Mountain Magical Realism Light

2022

Jamie Williams is an exciting young digital artist who is constantly pushing his practice. Having worked on major shows such as Stranger Things, Pacific Rim the Black, The Amazing World of Gumball and many great shows, he is busy exploring what digital abstraction can be, and how it can be done in 3D. Artist Bio - Jamie Williams (1994 - A First Class Animation Graduate of the Norwich University of the Arts in the UK, Jamie spent three years in the Japanese animation industry working on various Anime projects, for both Japanese and Western distributors. In Tokyo he studied under industry veteran Yoshikatsu Matsumoto. This training was unique in terms of industry practice as Matsumoto-San is a traditional painter working through a digital lens. Jamie has since worked as the Senior Background Artist on many leading francises including the Hanna-Barbera new production of The Amazing World of Gumball and before this for Flying Bark on Stranger Things. A visual development artist and background painter, Jamie has lived between, the ‘deep in the woods of Southern France under a roof made of castle ruins' and in total contrast Iceland. 'I love exploring new techniques and ideas that pull me from my comfort zone; currently taken in by the cult of Blender’. In his practice he seeks to explore and challenge. Inspired by the visual storytelling of Genndy Tartakovsky and Scott Wills, Jamie is also deeply influenced by Jamie Hewlett and his imagery for The Gorillas. He looks to the world-building of Ian Worrel and the expressive emotions in Lip Comarella’s work, ‘they are the unique creators who enthuse me’. He is excited not by creating high fantasy but playing with magical realism, things that are close to us that almost feel slightly off; an eclectic feeling. ‘In the creative industries, ways of working are always changing. If there is a better tool out there I embrace new technologies and try and bend them to my practice. At the moment I am incorporating live action footage with sculpting in VR in an attempt to expand what is possible for animation. I like experimenting with the latest 3D techniques, some weird and complicated, to create something that looks like reality in an abstracted form’. Jamie's pieces are held in private collections in the UK, India, Singapore, the US and Iceland