Early Life
Idrissa Jalloh alias Barry was born on the 23rd of July 1995 to Adama Jalloh and Sullayman Jalloh. He was born in the Makeni Municipality – the headquarter of the northern province and was raised in between the eastern province and the Western Area. He attended the St Charles Luwanga Primary School Kenema and proceeded to the Government Secondary School Kenema, where he sat to his WASSCE. Barry fell in love with graphics design at the age of 15 while he used to watch movies. He always wanted to make science-fic movies like Matrix. He often wanted to know how to make people climb on the wall. At the age of 16, he happened to move to Freetown on a holiday and met a friend who knew a bit about graphics design and the internet. The friend then helped him with some tutorials. His career in graphics design started from there, and he continued learning online on e-learning platforms especially YouTube. He furthered to Silicon Pro College of ICT Freetown and also went to the creative land school of media and art Ghana and also Obasanjo youth and skills acquisition college Newton. He is a certified Adobe Expert from Adobe Creative Cloud. He lectures graphics at Competency College of Technology in Freetown. Barry recently completed an entertainment entrepreneurship course at Lynda Online University. Even though he has earned himself a career at an early age, Barry is still single.
Career
Idrissa Jalloh alias Barry is a digital artist. He creates visual effects, motion, and steel graphics for movies, TV commercials, events, companies, and more. Barry started his career professionally as a teenager of seventeen; when he started releasing some of his hand works. His creativity, humility for his colleagues, authority, his clients coupled with his powerful techniques for visual effects have bought him space even at the international scene. Barry creates many visual graphics designs including steel graphics and creator title sequences for TV’s, events, and films. He works with software like 3D, After Effects, almost all the Adobe Software packages. He uses mostly the major graphics design software packages. He has participated in many forms of production and has greatly influenced the visual effects industry with his innovative skills. His story is an inspiring tale and his influence in the industry is truly incredible. At just twenty years of age, Barry began working on big projects like TV commercials, television graphics design, documentaries, short films, and full-length movies. His work has an enormous online presence which led to project collaborations with major companies including directors and editors. Jalloh continues to release exciting graphics that are greatly influencing the visual effects community. He has undertaken a good number of major After Effects projects in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, and beyond. From 2016 to 2017 he served as per time Graphics and VFX editor for Life By Design Limited. He served as the graphics designer for the first edition of Big Sister Sierra Leone in 2018.
He served as head of production and graphics media-tel Monrovia Liberia. Official graphics editor National Entertainment Awards Sierra Leone 2019. Official graphics editor Faces of the Northern Entertainment Awards Sierra Leone 2019 and lead graphics editor Miss university Sierra Leone, 2019. He was head of graphics and production at Finnex Pro Ltd Freetown. Pertime Assistant Editor and Camera Operator Ipro Multimedia Freetown Sierra Leone. Pertime Computer tutor at the Light Center Ministry All Skilled Programme Monrovia, Liberia. Head of graphics and VFX Ayv media empire 2018-present. Head of graphics and VFX editor Housemate Salone reality Tv show from 2018 and the current. His interesting visual effects style and unconventional humor intrigued viewers of his powerful techniques for visual effects that were comprehensive and entertaining made him attain the head of graphics at the biggest media houses in Sierra Leone, the African Young Voices Television Station as the Head of Graphics. A position he attained because of his techniques and what he is capable of handling as a professional graphics designer. As it is, almost all of the content aired by the AYV TV must have his touch.
He is the CEO and founder of Young Pioneers Investment Ltd and the founder and executive director of the National Film Awards Sierra Leone.
