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Lance Myers

Lance Myers has been a profession artist/animator for more than seven years. His work can be seen in feature films including Space Jam, Anastasia, Quest for Camelot and Prince of Egypt. He is currently lead animator on Richard Linklater's animated feature A Scanner Darkly, which is scheduled for release in early 2006. Linklater's film stars Keanu Reeves, Robert Downey Jr., Woody Harrelson and Winona Rider.

Myers' original animated shorts have shown on MTV PBS, HBO and Canada's Movieola as well as on screens at the Director's Guild Theatre in Los Angles and the Houston Museum of Fire Art.

Myers, a graduate of Port-Neches Groves High School in Southeast Texas, received a grant from the Austin Film Society to complete his third original animated film,Subsidized Fate. The short film won a special jury award at the South By Southwest Film Festival in 2004.

From October 2001 to August 2004, Myers worked for Acclaim Studio in Austin, where he was lead artist on the third-person shooter game 100 bullets. While at Acclaim, he also contributed work to projects including Turok Evolution and Vexx. In April 2002, Myers was hired as lead animator and artist director for the animated sequences in the Sony Music video I Feel Fine, by Columbia Records' recording artists The Riddlin' Kids.

Myers lives in Austin with his wife, Beth, and their three children. Check out sketches of his animation on A Scanner Darkly and see other samples of his work at LanceFever.

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