Justin Hess(III)
- Animation Department
- Art Department
I am a graduate of the animation program at Algonquin College in Ottawa, Ontario, where I focused on layout design and background art.
When I was young, I traveled all over the United States and Canada, while living in a camper. My family's business was making hand made collectible teddy bears.
Spending hours and hours at a time on the road, I would draw. I would copy panels from my favorite comics (Ninja Turtles , The Maxx) and drawings from the Preston Blair book.
When I got older, I spent about 10 years traveling all over Canada on tour with various musical projects, started various record labels, and I got to make the artwork for album covers, tour posters, t-shirts, etc. Still drawing all the time.
After college I worked in the Layout Department at Big Jump Entertainment on the the Netflix production F is for Family, and Mercury Filmworks on the Disney production of The Lion Guard, I was Lead Background Design artist, and Layout Supervisor, at Huminah Huminah Animation on Hasbros production Chomp Squad, while at Huminah I also was storyboard artist on Angry Birds: Maker Space. Other credits include: Designer and Layout Artist on Netflix production Trailer Park Boys (Season 2), Layout Artist on Close Enough (Season 2) for Cartoon Network, and Layout Artist for a new batch of Woody Woodpecker cartoons for Universal.
When I was young, I traveled all over the United States and Canada, while living in a camper. My family's business was making hand made collectible teddy bears.
Spending hours and hours at a time on the road, I would draw. I would copy panels from my favorite comics (Ninja Turtles , The Maxx) and drawings from the Preston Blair book.
When I got older, I spent about 10 years traveling all over Canada on tour with various musical projects, started various record labels, and I got to make the artwork for album covers, tour posters, t-shirts, etc. Still drawing all the time.
After college I worked in the Layout Department at Big Jump Entertainment on the the Netflix production F is for Family, and Mercury Filmworks on the Disney production of The Lion Guard, I was Lead Background Design artist, and Layout Supervisor, at Huminah Huminah Animation on Hasbros production Chomp Squad, while at Huminah I also was storyboard artist on Angry Birds: Maker Space. Other credits include: Designer and Layout Artist on Netflix production Trailer Park Boys (Season 2), Layout Artist on Close Enough (Season 2) for Cartoon Network, and Layout Artist for a new batch of Woody Woodpecker cartoons for Universal.