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Jason Strougo (BArch, BFA - Rhode Island School of Design) has been a VFX & CGI Director since 1992.

Jason is a two-time Emmy award winning director who has collaborated with award winning live action directors as well as other studios to produce:

• VFX spots
• Film Effects
• Broadcast Desgin
• Pre-visualization computer graphics for CG/live action as well as for purely live action shots
• Video game content/ride films
• High end simulations including live action camera robotics & CGI pollination

Jason is a proven leader, a former professor of animation at School of Visual Arts for undergraduate and graduate programs with students having gone on to work at Pixar, Sony Pictures Imageworks, BlueSky Studios, Dreamworks, Digital Domain and more.

Throughout his career, he has been responsible for all aspects of animated / VFX productions. As an animator & director, Jason has created hundreds of CG spots, hands-on. His talents range from live action / CG integration, to full up character animation, as well as visual effects supervision for CG related live action.

As a department lead, he has been responsible for building and managing teams of 50+ artists. Jason has been a key member of productions worldwide, combining his unique, wide range of skill sets.

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He later signed on to IBM's Multimedia Publishing Studio, where he directed, among other things, CDROM titles such as "Peter and the Wolf" featuring narration by Tony Randall. In '94 he joined Crawford Communication's DESIGNefx, where he worked alongside Director John Ryan. In '96 Pope and Ryan migrated to the Atlanta office of Click3X studios. . Robert has distinguished himself as a director for clients as diverse as Cartoon Network, Culligan Water, Ford Dealers, the Atlanta Braves, Ronzoni Pasta, Raid, Tony Chachere Spices, Valley National Bank, Brachs Candy, HowStuffWorks.com, Gulf Power, and a host of others. Robert brings a controlled and varied aesthetic to his work, drawing on diverse influences such as vintage Warner Bros., Disney, UPA, '60s Marvel Comics and early Hanna‐Barbera, to name a few. His dogged determination to accurately replicate many different styles of animation has been of great use the animated medium, as well as print, where he currently draws Scooby‐Doo and more for DC Comics. He is a member in good standing of the National Cartoonist's Society. 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