Jay Oliva

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**Jay Oliva** is a Filipino-American storyboard artist, film producer and animated film director working at Lex and Otis animation studio.

## Career

Oliva first started in animation as a cleanup artist for an animated Fox TV series *Spider-Man* in 1996 where he eventually started his career as a storyboard artist. He then moved to Sony Animation in 1997 and storyboarded on *Extreme Ghostbusters*. He would stay at Sony for the next five years where he worked on *Godzilla: The Series* and then eventually becoming a director on the animated TV series *Roughnecks: The Starship Troopers Chronicles* which was then followed by *Heavy Gear* and *Max Steel*. Before leaving Sony, he storyboarded on *Jackie Chan Adventures*. He went on to work as storyboard supervisor on the Mike Young Productions/Mattel series *He-Man and the Masters of the Universe* and the follow up *Masters of the Universe vs. the Snake Men*. He was then hired as a storyboard artist for the first season of the hit series *The Batman*, after which then moved back to Sony Animation to direct the last season of *Jackie Chan Adventures*.

While at Sony, he worked as storyboard artist on *Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild* in 2005. After working on a few DC animated TV series including *Teen Titans* and *Justice League*, he then moved to the Marvel/Lionsgate studios where he directed *The Invincible Iron Man* and *Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme*. After which, he was then hired by The Walt Disney Company to storyboard on the critically acclaimed children's series *My Friends Tigger and Pooh*. During this period he also worked as a storyboard artist on *Superman: Doomsday* before moving one last time back to Marvel to direct Marvel Animation's *Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow*.

He worked as a storyboard artist on Marvel's *Hulk Vs* and DC's *Wonder Woman*, both of which were deemed successful. After working on six other DC Comics projects such as *Green Lantern: First Flight*, *Superman/Batman: Public Enemies*, *Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths*, *Batman: Under the Red Hood*, *Superman/Batman: Apocalypse* and *All-Star Superman*, he was asked to once again direct an animated film but this time for WB/DC, *Green Lantern: Emerald Knights* which received many positive reviews.[1] He also went on to direct many episodes of the hit *Young Justice* TV series. He also worked on *The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes*.

In late 2012, he was assigned by Warner Bros. Animation to make a two-part animated film on *Batman: The Dark Knight Returns*[2] which was based on the comic book series of the same name by Frank Miller. Part 1 received a 100% score by Rotten Tomatoes.[3]

In 2013, he, along with Zack Snyder, storyboarded his first live-action feature film, *Man of Steel*,[4] after which he was tasked to make *Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox*, based on the comic crossover, Flashpoint which received generally positive reviews.[5] He was then tasked to helm the next animated movie from The New 52 series, *Justice League: War*, and, along with *Son of Batman* director Ethan Spaulding, Batman: Assault on Arkham which would release in 2014.[6]

Spaulding replaced Oliva as director for the sequel *Justice League: Throne of Atlantis* based on the third Aquaman story by Geoff Johns. Oliva then directed the film *Batman vs. Robin* before working on Snyder's *Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice*. Oliva returned to directing for Warner Bros. Animation with *Batman: Bad Blood*.

His first live-action Marvel Cinematic Universe film he storyboarded on was *Ant-Man* in 2015 as well as the Tim Miller film *Deadpool* in 2016.

He worked as a storyboard artist on multiple episodes of The Flash.[7]

In 2016, he directed another WB/DC movie in *Justice League Dark*, a movie which was given an R rating and would be released digitally on January 24, 2017.[8]

He is currently splitting his time directing for WB/DC animated films and storyboarding live-action films and commercials. On August 29, 2017, however, Oliva confirmed that he no longer works for Warner Bros.[9]

In Singapore on November 8th 2018, Netflix announced it will produce an anime for Filipino graphic novel 'Trese.' It was Taito Okiura, Director International Originals - Anime, who made the exciting announcement.

'Trese' is a graphic novel created by Budjette Tan and illustrated by Kajo Balidissmo. Set in a Manila where the mythical creatures of Philippine folklore live in hiding amongst humans, Alexandra Trese finds herself going head to head with a criminal underworld composed of malevolent supernatural beings.

According to Netflix, 'Trese' will be executively produced by Jay Oliva (Wonder Woman). Shanty Harmayn and Tanya Yuson at BASE Entertainment, a studio based in Jakarta and Singapore, will act as producers.