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Ely Lester

Crew Information

Gender:	Male ♂
Job:	Character layout artist Assistant director
Status:	Active
Number of episodes:	123
Seasons active:	Season 6 - 8, 14 - Present
First episode:	"Homer Badman"
Most recent episode:	"A Serious Flanders (Part 2)"
Movie:	The Simpsons Movie

Ely Lester is an animator for The Simpsons. He currently serves as a character layout artist and previously served as an assistant director.

Credits

Character layout

Episode – "Homer Badman"
Episode – "And Maggie Makes Three"
Episode – "The PTA Disbands"
Episode – "The Springfield Connection"
Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"
Episode – "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily"
Episode – "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular"
Episode – "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield"
Episode – "Bart on the Road"
Episode – "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish""
Episode – "Much Apu About Nothing"
Episode – "You Only Move Twice"
Episode – "Lisa's Date with Density"
Episode – "Three Gays of the Condo"
Episode – "Brake My Wife, Please"
Episode – "The Regina Monologues"
Episode – "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife"
Episode – "My Big Fat Geek Wedding"
Episode – "All's Fair in Oven War"
Episode – "Mommie Beerest"
Episode – "Don't Fear the Roofer"
Episode – "The Bonfire of the Manatees"
Episode – "The Italian Bob"
Episode – "Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore"
Episode – "Please Homer, Don't Hammer 'Em"
Episode – "Moe'N'a Lisa"
Episode – "The Haw-Hawed Couple"
Episode – "Little Big Girl"
Episode – "Stop or My Dog Will Shoot!"
– The Simpsons Movie
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVIII"
Episode – "Husbands and Knives"
Episode – "Smoke on the Daughter"
Episode – "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes"
Episode – "How the Test Was Won"
Episode – "Gone Maggie Gone"
Episode – "Four Great Women and a Manicure"
Episode – "Homer the Whopper"
Episode – "Rednecks and Broomsticks"
Episode – "Million Dollar Maybe"
Episode – "The Fight Before Christmas"
Episode – "The Great Simpsina"
Episode – "500 Keys"
Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network"
Episode – "A Tree Grows in Springfield"
Episode – "Pulpit Friction"
Episode – "The Saga of Carl"
Episode – "Married to the Blob"
Special – The Simpsons Take the Bowl
Episode – "Clown in the Dumps"
Episode – "Blazed and Confused"
Episode – "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner"
Episode – "The Princess Guide"
Episode – "Waiting for Duffman"
Episode – "Mathlete's Feat"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVI"
Episode – "Love Is in the N2-O2-Ar-CO2-Ne-He-CH4"
Episode – "Fland Canyon"
Episode – "Havana Wild Weekend"
Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part One"
Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part Two"
Episode – "The Cad and the Hat"
Episode – "Looking for Mr. Goodbart"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII"
Episode – "Frink Gets Testy"
Episode – "No Good Read Goes Unpunished"
Episode – "Left Behind"
Episode – "I Want You (She's So Heavy)"
Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill"
Episode – "Frinkcoin"
Episode – "The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXI"
Episode – "Do PizzaBots Dream of Electric Guitars?"
Episode – "The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A."
Episode – "Bart's in Jail!"
Episode – "Lisa's Belly"

Lead character layout

Episode – "Thursdays with Abie"
Episode – "The Color Yellow"
Episode – "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed"
Episode – "The Squirt and the Whale"
Episode – "MoneyBart"
Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXII"
Episode – "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution"
Episode – "How I Wet Your Mother"
Episode – "The Day the Earth Stood Cool"
Episode – "A Test Before Trying"
Episode – "YOLO"
Episode – "Labor Pains"
Episode – "Luca$"
Episode – "The Yellow Badge of Cowardge"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXV"
Episode – "Walking Big & Tall"
Episode – "Let's Go Fly a Coot"
Episode – "Friend with Benefit"
Episode – "The Girl Code"
Episode – "The Marge-ian Chronicles"
Episode – "Orange Is the New Yellow"
Episode – "There Will Be Buds"
Episode – "22 for 30"
Episode – "Springfield Splendor"
Episode – "Whistler's Father"
Episode – "King Leer"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIX"
Episode – "Baby You Can't Drive My Car"
Episode – "Krusty the Clown"
Episode – "The Girl on the Bus"
Episode – "Bart vs. Itchy & Scratchy"
Episode – "I'm Just a Girl Who Can't Say D'oh"
Episode – "Crystal Blue-Haired Persuasion"
Episode – "The Winter of Our Monetized Content"
Episode – "Go Big or Go Homer"
Episode – "Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?"
Episode – "Highway to Well"
Episode – "The Way of the Dog"
Episode – "Podcast News"
Episode – "The Dad-Feelings Limited"
Episode – "Uncut Femmes"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXII"
Episode – "A Serious Flanders (Part 2)"

Assistant director

Animatic layout

Episode – "The Food Wife"

External links

Ely Lester at the Internet Movie Database

Assistant directors

view • talk • edit • past Current assistant directors
Oscar Cervantes • Chris Clements • Manny DeGuzman • Matthew Faughnan • Debbie Bruce Mahan • Oscar Pangestu • Dane Romley • Herman Sharaf • Shane K. Sowell • Toni Tysen • Kathy Zielinski

view • talk • edit • past Former assistant directors
Neil Affleck • Edwin E. Aguilar • Bob Anderson • Mike B. Anderson • Norman P. Auble • Carlos Baeza • Orlando Baeza • Timothy Bailey • David Bastian • David Blum • Scott Brutz • Shaun Cashman • Christianna Lang Daley • Susie Dietter • Mark Ervin • Jess Espanola • Hunilla Fodor • Jonathan Gebhart • Yelena Geodakyan • Pete "Kid Flash" Gomez • Klay Hall • Mickey Handsome • Matthew Herbert • Sean Hobin • Brian Iles • Jen Kamerman • Lance Kramer • Nancy Kruse • Ben Lane • Davy Lauterbach • Grant Lee • Ely Lester • Chris Loudon • Michael Ludy • Richard Manginsay • Michael Marcantel • Tom Mazzocco • Pete Michels • Jennifer Moeller • Steven Dean Moore • Matthew Nastuk • James O'Brien • Shannon O'Connor • Rob Oliver • Howy Parkins • Raymond S. Persi • Dominic Polcino • Mike Frank Polcino • James Purdum • Alex Que • Jim Reardon • Stephen Reis • Jeremy Robinson • Eddie Rosas • Alex Ruiz • Matthew Schofield • Swinton O. Scott III • Chuck Sheetz • Alan Smart • Steve Socki • Ralph Sosa • Debbie J. Spafford • Ethan Spaulding • Josh Taback • Cyndi Tang • Tommy Tejeda • Erick T. Tran • Paul Wee • Thomas Woodall

view • talk • edit • past Other assistant directors
Colin Heck • Eric Koenig • Michael Rundle • Art Seidel • Gregg Vanzo

Animatic layout artists and Animatic editors

view • talk • edit • past Current animatic layout artists
Davy Lauterbach • Tom Madrid, Jr. • Steve Pilapil

view • talk • edit • past Former animatic layout artists
John Achenbach • Edwin E. Aguilar • Jung A Anderson • Norman P. Auble • Oscar Cervantes • Chris Clements • Liz Climo • Lejon Douroux • Jeanne Erickson • Luis Escobar • Jess Espanola • Dante Fabiero • Yelena Geodakyan • Angela Gilman • Matthew Herbert • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Eric Koenig • Lance Kramer • Grant Lee • Ely Lester • Debbie Bruce Mahan • Istvan Majoros • Matt Mantel • James Marquez • Drew McPhail • Jennifer Moeller • Mike Morris • Mary O. Natale • Rob Oliver • Chance Raspberry • Jeremy Robinson • Eddie Rosas • Alex Ruiz • Fill Marc Sagadraca • Rick Salonga • Matthew Schofield • Ralph Sosa • Tommy Tejeda • Erick T. Tran • Paul Wee

view • talk • edit • past Animatic editors
Taylor Allen • Martin Alvarez • Jennifer Dolce • Roger Injarusorn • Sean Isroelit • Monica Lee • Eric Loudon • Heliodoro Salvatierra • Mark Scheib • Rob Schulbaum

Character layout artists

view • talk • edit • past Current character layout artists
Jung A Anderson • Michael E. Atniel • Norman P. Auble • Jody Brooks • Oscar Cervantes • Greg Checketts • Joung Kyu Choi • Caroline Cruikshank • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Manny DeGuzman • Lejon Douroux • Adam Dykstra • Jeanne Erickson • Luis Escobar • Natalie J. Fosdick • Yelena Geodakyan • Steven Pierre Gordon • Matthew Herbert • Daniela Hoyos • Alexander Jenson • Jeff Johnson • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Eric Koenig • Lance Kramer • Tina Kügler • Christianna Lang Daley • Eric Lara • Davy Lauterbach • Ely Lester • Michael Ludy • Tom Madrid, Jr. • Debbie Bruce Mahan • Tanja Majerus • Drew McPhail • Mary O. Natale • Tuan Nguyen • Rob Oliver • Oscar Pangestu • Lena Podesta • Silvia Pompei • Alex Que • Arlyne Ramirez • Nik Ranieri • Thomas E. Richner • Ryan Rivette • Jeremy Robinson • Dustin Romero • Dane Romley • Rick Salonga • Herman Sharaf • Jiyoon Shin • Kamoon Song • Ralph Sosa • Shane K. Sowell • Debbie J. Spafford • Michael Tran • Toni Tysen • Paul Wee • Kathy Zielinski

view • talk • edit • past Former character layout artists
Brad Ableson • John Achenbach • Albert Acosta • Edwin E. Aguilar • Victor E. Almaguer • Bob Anderson • Mike B. Anderson • Tony Anselmo • John Aoshima • Martin Archer • Craig Armstrong • Stephanie Arnett • Marcos Asprec • Orlando Baeza • Timothy Bailey • Brenda Banks • Tibor Belay • Anthony Bell • John Berado • Sue Bielenberg • Mark Borok • Jeannette Bose • Scott Brutz • Tricia Buchanan-Benson • Rufino Camacho • Nathan Cash • Shaun Cashman • Kendis Chase • Shavonne Cherry • Moon Choi • Utit Choomuang • Craig Clark • Jeff Clark • Chris Clements • Liz Climo • Casey Coffey • Mark Colangelo • Pam Cooke • Tom Coppola • Noel Cox • Kirin Daughtery • Tim Decker • Gavin Dell • Susie Dietter • Francis Dinglasan • Orlando Distor • Arthur Ebuen • Ernesto Elicanal • Mark Ervin • Jess Espanola • Dante Fabiero • Matthew Faughnan • Istvan Fellner • Bonnie Fishbon • Julia "Fitzy" Fitzmaurice • Hunilla Fodor • Mike Fontanelli • Julie Forte • Sandra Frame • Bryan Francis • Cynthia French • Adriana Galvez • Philip Garcia • Raul Garcia • Tricia Garcia • Frederick J. Gardner III • Jonathan Gebhart • Brett Gehrs • Ed Ghertner • Neal Goldstein • Pete "Kid Flash" Gomez • Roger Gonzales • Joshua David Gorczyca • Gordon Stanfield Animation • Lucas Gray • Orlando Gumatay • Ted Hanik • Mary Hanley • Joe Healy • Lynne Healy • Colin Heck • Krystal Hernandez • Seth Hippen • Bill Ho • Jennie Hoffer • James Huang • Chris Huicochea • Brian Iles • Kelly Spencer James • Geoffrey Johnson • Ray Johnson, Jr. • Jen Kamerman • Mark Kausler • Seth Kearsley • Ernest Keen • Dean Kelly • Celia Kendrick • Eric S. Keyes • Andy Kim • S.J. Kim • Sooan Kim • Andi Klein • Bert Klein • Julianna Korsborn • Nancy Kruse • Jeff LaFlamme • Ben Lane • Phil Langone • Boowan Lee • Grant Lee • Ashley Lenz • Bob Logan • Jon Lopez • Miguel Lopez • Chris Loudon • Greg Lovell • Matt Luhn • Jeffrey Lynch • Jason Magness • Istvan Majoros • Maryann Malcomb • Anna Maltese • Richard Manginsay • Tammy Manis • Matt Mantel • Michael Marcantel • James Marquez • John Mathot • Ted Mathot • Linda McCall • Gary McCarver • Maeve McGrath • Steve Mealue • Andre Medina • Emily Michels • Pete Michels • Noah Miller • Chris Moeller • Jennifer Moeller • Leo Moran • Jeanette Moreno • Mike Morris • Sarge Morton • Erik Moxcey • Jeff Myers • Kimberly Narsete • Matthew Nastuk • Joey Nilges • James O'Brien • Shannon O'Connor • Eduardo Olivares • Eric Oliver • Kenji Ono • Tyler Pagan • Howy Parkins • Sanjay Patel • John Pearson • Jack Perkins • Raymond S. Persi • Jeff Pidgeon • Dominic Polcino • Mike Frank Polcino • Michael Polvani • Teresa Potter-Heimark • Dan Povenmire • Julius Preite • Natasha Presler-Wicke • James Purdum • Chance Raspberry • Bill Recinos • Dexter Reed • Jordan Reichek • Stephen Reis • Jay Robinson • Art Roman • Christian Roman • Eddie Rosas • Sondra Roy • Aaron Rozenfeld • Alex Ruiz • Fill Marc Sagadraca • David Salvador • Alberto Santiago • Sydney Sata • Matthew Schofield • Andy Schuhler • Melody Severns • Peter Shin • Tony Siruno • Kevin M. Smith • Steve Smith • Ethan Spaulding • Julie Spencer • Eric Stefani • Aimee Steinberger • Jennifer Stillwell • Charlotte Stout • Josh Taback • Betty Tang • Cyndi Tang • Lewis Tate • Noel Taylor • Tommy Tejeda • Gary Terry • Erick T. Tran • Elan Trinidad • Tuck Tucker • Bob Tyler • Brad Vandergrift • Gregg Vanzo • Viorel Voronca • Dusty Wakefield • Jason D. Warnesky • Mark Watts • JC Wegman • Brian Wells • Tom Winkler • Byun Kwang Won • Anthony Wong • Thomas Woodall • Glen Wuthrich • Tomihiro Yamaguchi • Gary Yap • Jung-A Yoo • Young Yoo • Jordan Young

view • talk • edit • past One time character layout artists
Scott Alberts • Charles Alleneck • Ed Bell • Brad Bird • Clint Bond • Ian Chen • Kevin Davis • Eric Elder • Marvin Ervin • Brad Forbush • Steve Garcia • Klay Hall • Sam Ho • Jeff Howard • Chris Hubbard • Nora Johnson • Jason Katz • Jang Woo Lee • Derek Lestrange • Jeff "Swampy" Marsh • Bob Miller • Chris Mitchell • Angel Pastrana • Charles Ragins • Marc Ratner • Christopher Reccardi • Domingo Rivera • Stephen Robertson • Amy Rychlick • Ericka Schwartz • Elaina Scott • Alan Smart • Chad Stewart • Matt Sullivan • Eric Thomas • Janice Tolentino • Arthur Valencia • Jim Van der Keyl • Barry Vodos • Dave Warren • Celia Weiss

view • talk • edit • past Other character layout artists
Ivaylo Anguelov • David Au • Abe Audish • Matthias Bauer • Wayne Carlisi • Roberto Casale • Kathi Castillo • Rick Farmiloe • Mike Girard • Rick Hoppe • Jay Jackson • Cathy Jones • Megan Kelly • Craig Kemplin • Jiwook Kim • Erik Kuska • Lois Lee • Joseph Lowe • Carlos Lutterbach • Leonardo Matsuda • Frank Molieri • Steven Muller • David Nam • Phillip Pignotti • Chris Rutkowski • David Silverman • Chris Minki Song • Mike Swofford • Derek Thompson • Kurt Vanzo • Franz Vischer • William Waldman