Sarah Watling

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About Sarah Watling

JALI provides production teams with a powerful, flexible, and intuitive suite of animation and rigging tools to create unforgettable digital character performances. At JALI, we are storytellers at heart. We pride ourselves on our deep bench of in-house talent, bringing together an Academy Award-winning team with decades of combined experience in graphics research and animation. Over the past 6 years JALI has contributed software solutions to several critically acclaimed titles - notably Cyberpunk 2077, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II, Rise of the Ronin - that have set new standards for immersiveness in gameplay. Our expertise is trusted by studios across the globe. Currently over 50 game projects are leveraging JALI in active production. Our experience spans a wide range of IPs and animation styles, making us a versatile partner for any project from games, VFX and feature animation, series, trans-media character deployment, and more. JALI’s procedural animation system employs intelligent automation and is designed with a deep understanding of the principles of rigging and animation craft. With tools to automate and direct the animation of best-in-class automated lip sync, expressive multilingual facial animation, and high-performance rigging and pipeline solutions, JALI empowers animators to deliver cinematic-quality character animation with ease - on time, on budget and on model, and high fidelity in-game character animation at unprecedented scale.