Dan Lee
Dan Lee (born May 19, 1969 in Montreal , Québec , Canada , † January 15, 2005 in Berkeley , California , USA ) was a Canadian animator whose best-known character is the fish Nemo from Finding Nemo ( Finding Nemo ).
Life
Lee was born the youngest of four children to Chinese immigrants. He studied classical animation at Sheridan College in Toronto and was honored for his art while still a student (The Board of Governors Silver Medal Award for Academic Excellence). He worked for various film studios on animations for television and advertising, e.g. B. Kennedy Cartoons in Toronto and Colossal Pictures in San Francisco .
In 1994 he joined Pixar . Here he initially worked as a sketch and animation draftsman, later as a figure draftsman on the studio's great animation successes: Toy Story 2 (1999), Das große Krabbeln (1998, A Bug's Life ), Die Monster AG (2001, Monsters, Inc. ) and finally Finding Nemo (2003, Finding Nemo ). In addition to Nemo, Lee created other famous characters such as Rosie and Princess Atta from The Great Crawling , Boo and CEO Henry J. Waternoose from The Monster AG, and Marlin and the Barracuda from Finding Nemo .
Although he had never smoked, Dan Lee died of lung cancer in 2005 at the age of only 35 . Friends and colleagues posthumously published the book In Your Face in 2005 , which gathers together sketches that Lee made privately of café-goers. In 2007 the film Ratatouille was dedicated to him.
Web links
- Dan Lee in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lee, Dan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian cartoonist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal , Quebec , Canada |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 15, 2005 |
| Place of death | Berkeley , California , USA |