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James began his adventures in feature animation at Amblimation studios in London. After working on all three of their films (An American Tail II, We’re Back and Balto), he relocated with his family to Los Angeles to work for Warner Bros. Feature Animation, where he supervised on the original Space Jam movie. James then moved to DreamWorks, supervising on their four traditionally animated features: Prince of Egypt, Road to El Dorado, Spirit, and Sinbad. James’s next move was to Sony Pictures Animation, to head up their layout department, working on films including The Polar Express, Open Season, Surf’s Up, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Hotel Transylvania, and Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse. Following this, James once again relocated, this time to the east coast, to BlueSky studios in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he was Head of Layout on Spies in Disguise, and Nimona. James’s most recent role was that of Studio Cinematographer at Illumination Studios in Paris, where he worked on The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Migration, and Despicable Me 4.
Filmography
10 films
showing 4 of 5 films


Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
2018 · 1h 57m
country: United States
Struggling to find his place in the world while juggling school and family, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales is unexpectedly bitten by a radioactive spider and develops unfathomable powers just like the one and only Spider-Man. While wrestling with the implications of his new abilities, Miles discovers a super collider created by the madman Wilson "Kingpin" Fisk, causing others from across the Spider-Verse to be inadvertently transported to his dimension.


Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2
2013 · 1h 35m
country: United States
After the disastrous food storm in the first film, Flint and his friends are forced to leave the town. Flint accepts the invitation from his idol Chester V to join The Live Corp Company, which has been tasked to clean the island, and where the best inventors in the world create technologies for the betterment of mankind. When Flint discovers that his machine still operates and now creates mutant food beasts like living pickles, hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees and apple pie-thons, he and his friends must return to save the world.


Open Season
2006 · 1h 26m
country: United States
Boog, a domesticated 900lb. Grizzly bear finds himself stranded in the woods 3 days before Open Season. Forced to rely on Elliot, a fast-talking mule deer, the two form an unlikely friendship and must quickly rally other forest animals if they are to form a rag-tag army against the hunters.


The Polar Express
2004 · 1h 40m
country: United States
When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.