Jesse Toves: Local boy goes big time
In the normal course of his job duties, Jesse Mesa Toves does the kind of work that most people could only dream of -- although it's more accurate to say that he does the stuff that us regular folks see in comics, or at movies, or on TV.
Toves is a character animator for NBC Universal working on the Syfy show "Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome." He makes the robots move, the spaceships fly, and animates the imaginary characters that the humans get to battle.
Google his name and you'll see that he is considered among the best in the field of character animation. It's not just about making the character move, for that is elementary to the animator. Toves is skilled at making his characters act .
After brief stints with the Pacific Daily News (he won graphic design awards there too) and Latte Magazine, Toves left Guam in 1995. His path took him through San Francisco, then San Diego as he picked up work designing characters for early Sony Playstation games such as Jet Moto and Twisted Metal.
He founded a design company while in San Diego, then moved to Los Angeles, where he went on a long run through various visual effects companies like Rhythm and Hues (doing mostly commercials) and Dilated Pixels, United Film Organization and now BSG Universal -- the production facility for "Battlestar Galactica," "Caprica" and "Blood and Chrome."
Toves continues to materialize his longtime dreams of publishing comics (His independent title, "Blood, Guts & Noir" is on Amazon) and work on graphic novels.
He fills his spare time with other artistic endeavors: He loves photography and he is gifted on the guitar.
Toves sends out shouts to all the folks at UOG and Father Duenas Memorial School, all the fine folks at the Pacific Daily News from the old days.
Q:What are your top three accomplishments in your field and why?
A: * 2 Visual Effects Society Awards for Visual Effects -- these are peer review awards from within the business -- they aren't quite as well known but they are the business equivalent of the Oscars for Visual Effects and only effects.
•Two Emmy nominations for Visual Effects -- I am particularly proud of these nominations considering some of the really B movies I had worked on for a while -- nice to get some recognition from the Hollywood community.
•Character design for Wierd Al Yankovic -- Yes, that Wierd Al Yankovic. I did freelance character design at the Orange County Fair attraction "Wierd Al's Brain" where a wise old owl talks to the audience. I designed the owl but someone else built and animated the character. I've done a lot of more prestigious work before and since but it always sticks out in my mind because of the fact I grew up on a steady Dr. Demento diet, where Weird Al built a huge following.
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Google his name and you'll see that he is considered among the best in the field of character animation. It's not just about making the character move, for that is elementary to the animator. Toves is skilled at making his characters act.
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