Jabari B.

Animation, Motion and character design

New York City

• I’m a professional artist who’s a little red/green colorblind
• My favorite food in the world is cheesecake
• I discovered animation by accident when I was 10 years old and never looked back!

I’m a Jamaican/Guyanse animator who grew up in Trinidad and Tobago. I discovered stop-motion playing with a webcam in my parents’ office when I was 10 years old and caught a fascination with animation that I've yet to put down. Today I mostly do character and effects animation (anything that lets me animate traditionally) and all of my illustrations are drawn on Photoshop. My animations are split between being made in Photoshop, After Effects, ToonBoom, and Blender. Apart from traditional animation I’m really interested in motion graphics, particularly kinetic typography. There’s something about animating speech and imbuing words with personality and finding motion to fit the context of what’s being said, etc, that's really enjoyable in a very West Indian way. Career-wise I’m caught somewhere between wanting to use animation to highlight and elevate voices and cultures, particularly those back home in the Caribbean, and wanting to make some trippy-looking animation for TV shows- ideally both!