Jay Oliva - TV Tropes
- ️Mon Jul 31 2023
Jay Oliva (born in 1976) is an American storyboard artist, producer and animation film director of Filipino descent.
He studied at Servite High School then graduated at Loyola Marymount University and works at the Los Angeles-based animation studio he founded, Lex+Otis
. He is known for having storyboarded a large number of Marvel Comics and DC Comics adaptations (either animation or live-action, in both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Extended Universe in particular), and he's directed several DC Universe Animated Original Movies.
Among his non-DC/non-Marvel works, there is the series Trese, which is based on the Filipino comics of the same name, and Twilight of the Gods.
Works he's directed include:
- Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas (TBA)
- Cradle Series (TBA)
- DC Animation:
- Young Justice (10 episodes)
- DC Universe Animated Original Movies:
- Hero Factory (LEGO animated series, 1 episode)
- Infinity: Paradise Lost (TBA)
- Jackie Chan Adventures (3 episodes)
- Marvel Animation:
- RAID: Call of the Arbiter
- Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles (6 episodes)
- Trese
- Twilight of the Gods (2 episodes)
Other works he was involved in include:
Tropes & Trivia in his works:
- Production Posse: He's worked extensively with Zack Snyder, storyboarding his DC Extended Universe films and working on the tie-in animated series to Army of the Dead, Lost Vegas (which seems to be in Development Hell), and Twilight of the Gods.
- What Could Have Been: He did storyboards for Teen Titans: The Judas Contract and he found inspiration in them for his planned storyboard for the DC Extended Universe Batman film by/starring Ben Affleck that never saw the light of day.