Producer, Director, Designer and Technology Innovator: Barnaby Jackson is known for his visual effects television commercials, his design and direction of computer generated animation, his experiential sound trailers, his wild motion simulation ride-films, and his sci-fi action-adventure IMAX feature film.  Jackson designs, develops and integrates new technologies to achieve ground breaking creative results.  

Jackson began his career with his mentor, and visual effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull (“2001,” “Close Encounters” & “Blade Runner.”)  With Trumbull he helped develop the Showscan high speed film process and the Academy award winning Showscan camera system.  He trained as fine arts still photographer, and has worked in many capacities in the film industry: from camera assistant to camera operator and as a visual effects supervisor, director and producer.  Jackson received his first film credit in “Let’s Go” for the construction and on-set operation of a servo-mechanical robot. 

Jackson is President and Founder at MachineHero LLC were current projects include a short film and commercial for JLo’s new fragrance for Coty.  With Machinehero, at The Rhode Island School of Design, Jackson is creating a stylized virtual garden populated with 3D plants and environmental effects to dramatically illustrate the sensory experience of this new product for Jennifer Lopez. 

Jackson has also recently completed a number of projects for Hasbro, including original television programing, interactive web films, and computer generated sequences using human motion capture to bring GI Joe to life.  Using virtual sets and large scale puppets Jackson animated Hasbro’s new product: TJ Bear.  He created media for Nerf, idog and many other products as well.

Jackson was previously creative director at Neoscape Inc. where he conceived, produced and directed short films and television commercials that utilize photorealistic virtual environments and digital sets.  As a creative director, Jackson oversaw the implementation and creation of media in all forms, from websites, and interactive tools, to virtual reality and all forms of rich media content.