I’m a professional animator, visual effects artist, director, author, muralist, and painter based in Boulder City, Nevada with an art gallery in Las Vegas. I’ve worked for Walt Disney Studios, PDI/DreamWorks, and numerous other production companies on more than 70 features, shorts, music videos, trailers, and commercials.
My official long biography:
Lee Lanier has worked as a professional computer animator and VFX (visual effects) artist since 1994. He has more than 70 features, shorts, music videos, trailers, and commercials to his credit. While at Buena Vista Visual Effects at Walt Disney Studios, he created VFX for numerous feature films. While at PDI/DreamWorks, he served as a senior animator on Antz and Shrek. Along the way, he directed a series of independent, animated short films that went on to play 200+ film festivals, museums, and art galleries worldwide. His work has been featured at such venues as Sundance, Slamdance, SXSW, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Smithsonian Institution.
As a world-renowned expert in the animation and VFX fields, Lee has written high-end software books that have sold 30,000+ copies, has authored VFX training videos for lynda.com/Linkedin Learning, has taught VFX compositing at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects in Hollywood, and is a member of VES (Visual Effects Society).
A strong supporter of the arts, Lee co-founded the Dam Short Film Festival, an internationally recognized event. Lee has recently turned his skills to figurative and narrative painting; his paintings have been featured in 50 group and solo shows at 25 galleries and museums in 6 states.