James C.J. Williams

Biography

James began his adventures in feature animation at Amblimation studios in London. After working on all three of their films (An American Tail II, We’re Back and Balto), he relocated with his family to Los Angeles to work for Warner Bros. Feature Animation, where he supervised on the original Space Jam movie. James then moved to DreamWorks, supervising on their four traditionally animated features: Prince of Egypt, Road to El Dorado, Spirit, and Sinbad. James’s next move was to Sony Pictures Animation, to head up their layout department, working on films including The Polar Express, Open Season, Surf’s Up, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, Hotel Transylvania, and Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse. Following this, James once again relocated, this time to the east coast, to BlueSky studios in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he was Head of Layout on Spies in Disguise, and Nimona. James’s most recent role was that of Studio Cinematographer at Illumination Studios in Paris, where he worked on The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Migration, and Despicable Me 4.