Jay White

Jay White graduated in civil engineering but never used his degree. Instead he enrolled in the Vancouver Film School for a year and then became a computer animator. He worked for eight years designing animation for children’s TV shows. He worked on a few shows, one in Germany, and decided he wanted to do more art then business. By 2006, he was working from his cabin at Marsh Lake and had completed four original animations. That year, Yukon had four working professional animators.

White’s Boar Attack won favourite Made in the Yukon professional film and took second place in the People’s Choice Award in the 2006 Dawson City International Film Festival. That spring, he hosted an NFB- animation workshop for youth in Teslin. Over the winter he collaborated with a Vancouver theatre company Boca del Lupo, where live actors interact with projected animations, in The Perfectionist. He also animated a music video for the Toronto-based band The Diableros. White was awarded a mid-career Canada Council of the Arts grant to work on Perfect Detonator. He was planning to work with Daniel Janke on the animation How People Got Fire.¹⁾