Gary Lee

Gary H. Lee currently serves as the head of layout on Sony Pictures Animation’s upcoming feature “KPop Demon Hunters,” streaming on Netflix in 2025. 

Lee was born in Taipei, Taiwan, then moved to the United States at the age of 13. From a very young age, Lee was drawn to art and comic books, and as he got older, he became fascinated by motion pictures and visual effects in films like “Star Wars,” “Jurassic Park,” and “The Matrix.” In high school, he started doing 3D animation on his computer and produced a short film for his high school’s video yearbook. 

At 19, Lee enrolled at the Art Center College of Design as an Illustration major. At the end of his freshman year, he submitted for a job at Lucasfilm using his high school short film. One week later, putting college on hiatus, he started on Geroge Lucas’s “Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones” at the Skywalker Ranch as an Animatic/ Pre-visualization artist.

Since then, Lee has participated in film productions in major studios such as Lucasfilm, Dreamworks Animation, Fox, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures Animation, and Netflix on projects such as “Star Wars,” “Kung Fu Panda,” “Life of Pi,” “Aquaman,” “Vivo,” and “The Magician’s Elephant.”

Lee has also directed two live-action/animation hybrid short films, “Hector Corp.,” and “Aden,” which together have accumulated 14 awards from film festivals around the world. 

Lee is a father of two, blessed with new perspectives seeing the world through his children’s eyes which further fuels his passion for art and storytelling.