Peter Lepeniotis
Birth Name:
Peter Lepeniotis
Birth Place:
Canada
Profession
Animation department, Director, Visual effects, Writer, Actor
Fast Facts
- Graduated from Sheridan College's classical animation and computer animation programs in 1993
- Spent four years working for Disney, where he worked on animating "Fantasia 2000" and "Dinosaur․"
- While working as an animator at Pixar, he worked on "Toy Story 2․"
- Worked at Industrial Light and Magic, a division of LucasFilm Ltd․, directly after graduating from college
- Quote: "[on "The Nut Job"] "The studio kept saying they wanted to make a feature out of it, but I didn't think anything would come out of it․ The next thing I knew, I had to write a script․""
- Quote: "[on Sheridan College] "It really blossomed for me and opened up a new world․ It worked out quite well for me․""
- After working at such Toronto studios as Cookie Jar, he joined Toonbox Entertainment, where he would start to make his own mark in the world of animated film
- Best known for co-writing and directing the animated film "The Nut Job․"
- Helped animate "Casper," the first feature-length film to star a computer-generated image character
- Took his whole family, including his them 5-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son, to walk the red carpet at the Los Angeles premiere of "The Nut Job․"