Brad Lewis

Pacific Data Images

For over thirteen years Lewis worked at Pacific Data Images (PDI), a computer animation and visual effects production company. He served as executive Producer and Vice President of Production, and lead the expansion of the partnership with DreamWorks SKG.

Lewis first produced television specials. In 1991 he received a Sports Emmy Awards for graphic design on ABC's Monday Night Football. In 1992 he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects on The Last Halloween, for which Hanna-Barbera used CGI animation instead of traditional animation for the first time. In 1995 Lewis produced "Treehouse of Horror VI", the first 3D episode of The Simpsons, with a three-dimensional Homer Simpson.

Lewis then served as producer on films such as Broken Arrow (1996), The Arrival (1996), The Peacemaker (1997), Antz (1998) and Forces of Nature (1999). He was to direct the cancelled animated film Tusker with Tim Johnson.^[3] Lewis left the company shortly after it was purchased by DreamWorks SKG in 2000.^{[citation needed]}

Additionally, Lewis' commercial production work netted him two Clios.

Pixar

Brad Lewis joined Pixar in November 2001; his first credit was on The Incredibles as an actor. He served as producer on Ratatouille in 2007 and later went on to co-direct Cars 2 in 2011.^[4] He co-directed the English voice version of Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo in 2009.

Recent

Lewis left Pixar to join Digital Domain in 2011, at their Tradition Studios division in Florida where he was to direct animated features.^[5] After Digital Domain's bankruptcy filing and their shutdown and layoffs at Tradition Studios, Lewis joined Warner Bros. as a producer. He produced Storks which was released on September 23, 2016, and was executive producer on The Lego Batman Movie.^[5] Lewis returned to DreamWorks Animation to produce How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.^[6]

Feature films