Paul Lasaine - Crew

Paul Lasaine is a British production designer and visual-effects artist whose career spans over three decades in both animation and live-action filmmaking. He initially began in matte painting and visual-effects roles on major films in the early 1990s, contributing as a matte-painting supervisor or artist on titles such as Alien³ (1992), Batman Returns (1992), Beethoven’s 2nd (1993), The Pelican Brief (1993), Hocus Pocus (1993), and Dave (1993). He transitioned into higher-profile visual-effects and art-department roles, serving as visual-effects art director on The Lord of the Rings trilogy — The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Two Towers (2002), and The Return of the King (2003).