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\n‘Finding Nemo’ animator dies of cancer<\/p>\n
\nThe Associated Press<\/p>\n
\nFebruary 02, 2005<\/p>\n
ARTICLE<\/span> FEATURES<\/span><\/p>\n \u2022 e-mail this article<\/p>\n \u2022 print this article<\/p>\n \u2022 discuss this article<\/p>\n Dan Lee, a lead animator at Pixar Animation Studios who contributed to some of the most successful animated films ever, has died. He was 35.<\/p>\n \nLee died Jan. 15 at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Berkeley following a 17-month battle with lung cancer.<\/p>\n \n“Dan was a longtime member of our Pixar family,” said Andrew Stanton, the director of “Finding Nemo.” “He single-handedly designed Nemo and has been a major influence at Pixar. Dan was a wonderful, irreplaceable, talented human being, and we miss him terribly.”<\/p>\n \nLee began working at Pixar in 1996 and worked as a sketch artist, character designer and animator for “A Bug’s Life,” “Toy Story 2,” “Monsters, Inc.” and “Finding Nemo.”<\/p>\n \n“He was a very talented guy. I don’t know if he knew how actually talented he was,” said Carmen Ngai, a technical director at Pixar. “He was extremely modest.”<\/p>\n \nLee was born in Montreal and grew up in Scarborough, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto. He was the youngest of four children born to Chinese immigrants.<\/p>\n \n“He seemed to be just gifted,” Lee’s older sister, Sunny Lee-Fay, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “When he was a teenager, I used to say to him, ‘Why are you still watching cartoons?’”<\/p>\n \nBefore working at Pixar, he worked on television cartoons and commercials for several studios, including Kennedy Cartoons in Toronto and Colossal Pictures in San Francisco.<\/p>\n \nLee is survived by his mother and father, Kam-Sau and Hung-Yau Lee of Toronto; and sisters Sunny Lee-Fay of Vancouver, Mei Okurmura of Tustin, Calif., and Brenda Lee Truong of Toronto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/www.tuscaloosanews.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20050202\/APN\/502020525&cachetime=3&template=dateline ‘Finding Nemo’ animator dies of cancer The Associated Press February 02, 2005 ARTICLE FEATURES \u2022 e-mail this article \u2022 print this article \u2022 discuss this article Dan Lee, a lead animator at Pixar Animation Studios who contributed to some of the most successful animated films ever, has died. He was 35. Lee died Jan. …<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n