January joined the BreakThru team in 2012, as one of the original ‘Gang of  Four’ who painted the Test trailer.

Over the next two years during the development period January was one of the three artists responsible for storyboarding the film, and also was in charge of developing the style for the Black and White Oil-painting animation feature in the film.

January was part of the supervisory team in charge of testing and training the painters, and was in overall charge of Supervising the Black and White sequences of the film.