Ely Lester

Ely Lester

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Character layout artist Assistant director Status: Active Number of episodes: 113 Seasons active: Season 6 - 8, 14 - Present First episode: "Homer Badman" Most recent episode: "The Way of the Dog" 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"

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"

Assistant director

• Episode – "The Scorpion's Tale"

• Episode – "Lisa Goes Gaga"

• Episode – "Black-Eyed, Please"

• Episode – "The Man Who Grew Too Much"

Animatic layout

• Episode – "The Food Wife"

External links

• Ely Lester at the Internet Movie Database

Assistant directors

Current assistant directors Edwin E. Aguilar • Oscar Cervantes • Chris Clements • Matthew Faughnan • Yelena Geodakyan • Debbie Mahan • Oscar Pangestu • Alex Que • Dane Romley • Herman Sharaf Former assistant directors Neil Affleck • 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 • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Susie Dietter • Mark Ervin • Jess Espanola • Hunilla Fodor • Jonathan Gebhart • 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 • Michael Polcino • James Purdum • Jim Reardon • Stephen Reis • Jeremy Robinson • Eddie Rosas • Alex Ruiz • Matthew Schofield • Swinton O. Scott III • White Shadow • Chuck Sheetz • Alan Smart • Steve Socki • Ralph Sosa • Ethan Spaulding • Josh Taback • Cyndi Tang • Tommy Tejeda • Erick T. Tran • Paul Wee • Thomas Woodall Other assistant directors Colin Heck • Eric Koenig • Michael Rundle • Art Seidel • Gregg Vanzo

Animatic layout artists and Animatic editors

Current animatic layout artists Davy Lauterbach • Tom Madrid, Jr. 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 Mahan • Istvan Majoros • Matt Mantel • James Marquez • Drew McPhail • Jennifer Moeller • Mike Morris • Rob Oliver • Mary Orario-Natale • Steve Pilapil • Chance Raspberry • Jeremy Robinson • Eddie Rosas • Alex Ruiz • Fill Marc Sagadraca • Rick Salonga • Matthew Schofield • Ralph Sosa • Tommy Tejeda • Erick T. Tran • Paul Wee Animatic editors Taylor Allen • Martin Alvarez • Jennifer Dolce • Roger Injarusorn • Sean Isroelit • Monica Lee • Eric Loudon • Heliodoro Salvatierra • Mark Scheib • Rob Schulbaum