Lee Lanier is a 3D animator, digital compositor, and director. His films have played in more than 200 museums, galleries, and film festivals worldwide. Before directing the shorts "Millennium Bug," "Mirror," "Day Off the Dead," "Weapons of Mass Destruction," and "13 Ways to Die at Home," Lee served as a senior animator in the lighting and modeling departments at PDI/DreamWorks on Antz and Shrek. He got his start at Buena Vista Visual Effects at Walt Disney Studios, where he created digital visual effects for such films as Mortal Kombat. Lee currently splits his time between Los Angeles and Boulder City, Nevada (just outside of Las Vegas). He creates his animation work through BeezleBug Bit, LLC (www.BeezleBugBit.com), serves as executive director of the Dam Short Film Festival (www.DamShortFilm.org), and teaches lighting at the Gnomon School of Visual Effects.