Jay Harwood is a Director and ECD working within the Advertising and the Experiential industry for over 15 years. His approach combines Live Action, VFX, Design and Technology to create visuals and events that engage a new and demanding audience. His experience covers the full gamut of content platforms and with that, his unique ability to apply different methodology to every brief, If it's full Live action, LED Volumes, AI or CGI, he always thinks outside the box to create something that grabs your attention. Jay has worked for traditional Animation and VFX Production companies to digital agencies and technology companies, working closely with clients and artists alike - his work has been featured in articles from the Washington Street Journal, Vogue and The Fast Company. And he’s worked on productions that have won Emmy’s, Cannes Lions and Gold pencils.

His background comes from developing studios, growing teams from 1-100. Setting up workflows from concept to color. The craft of best in class creative content, has always been a driving factor for the growth of every studio. Holding creative leadership positions in end-to-end prouction companies, Jay has maintained profitabe growth and expanded locations around the world to solution the toughest of briefs, from the mini budget to the massive. 

Recently the AI evolution has captured Jays constant hunger to apply technology to content creation. With a couple of AI films released and developing a new AI software application for the pre-production industry. Jays appetite expands beyond the restraints of traditional production capabilities, and is driving forwards new ways to reinvent our ecosystem.

Say Hi - me@jayharwood.com