Dan Lee | |
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Born | |
Died | January 15, 2005 Berkeley, California, U.S. | (aged 35)
Occupation(s) | animator, Character designer |
Years active | 1996–2005 |
Employer | Pixar Animation Studios (1996-2005) |
Dan Lee (May 19, 1969 – January 15, 2005) was a Canadian-American animator, best known as the character designer of Nemo, the title character from Finding Nemo.
Lee was born in Montreal, Quebec, in 1969, the youngest of four children of Chinese immigrants and grew up in Scarborough, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto. He graduated with honours from the animation program at Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario.
He worked on television cartoons and commercials for several studios, including Kennedy Cartoons in Toronto and Colossal Pictures in San Francisco before joining Pixar in June 1996.
He worked as animator on Darkwing Duck and Goof Troop while at Kennedy Cartoons.
Lee died on January 15, 2005, in Berkeley, California, at the age of 35 years old, from heart failure and lung cancer-related complications.[1] Ratatouille was dedicated to him.