Lisa Foster(I)
- Actress
- Visual Effects
- Producer
Originally from Canada, Ms. Foster began her career as a magazine model and dancer on Canadian series, 'Any Way You Want It'. She Trained at HB Studios in New York City, and spent several years as a
professional film and commercial actress before turning her attention to
television, where she worked in various capacities as Camera Operator,
Floor Manager and Technical Director on the award winning
political panel show, Week In Review (KCLA), Santa Monica. She began her VFX career at Cinesite in Los Angeles as part of the complex
restoration team assigned to the major task of digitally reconstructing
the classic Disney animated film Blanche-Neige et les Sept Nains (1937). Following the success of
these never-before-seen digital techniques, she went on to work as a
technical artist on such films as Coneheads (1993), Cliffhanger : Traque au sommet (1993) and the Academy
Award-nominated (for visual effects) film Super Mario Bros. (1993). As staff animator at
Sony Pictures Imageworks, Foster lent her skills to such films as
Une journée en enfer (1995) Wolf (1994), Disjoncté (1996), Programmé pour tuer (1995), Souvenirs de l'au-delà (1995) and James et la Pêche géante (1996).
From there she moved into the game arena, first as a CG supervisor for Squaresoft's mega-hit game Parasite Eve (1998), in which she also directed two key cinematic sequences, and then as a CG supervisor and Technical Director for the games Evil Dead: Hail to the King (2000) and THQ's Scooby Doo (2000) (VG). After a stint as Executive Producer for the broadcast design arm of Duck Soup in Los Angeles, Ms. Foster took the Senior Producer position at Phantagram Entertainment, where she produced 32 animated cinematic sequences for the celebrated game Le Seigneur des Anneaux: Les Deux Tours (2002) based on the Peter Jackson film (Electronic Arts) as well as the opening character animated cinematic for game sequel Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders (2004) (NCSoft). Later, she acted as Core Producer on LEGO Universe, the AAA Massively Multiplayer Online Game for Gazillion Entertainment.
Ms. Foster joined Maddox Media as Director of New Media in 2016 where she wrote and directed spec feature, 'Cake Queen.' In 2019 she became Executive Producer for Asteri Entertainment and Publisher for Prima Games.
From there she moved into the game arena, first as a CG supervisor for Squaresoft's mega-hit game Parasite Eve (1998), in which she also directed two key cinematic sequences, and then as a CG supervisor and Technical Director for the games Evil Dead: Hail to the King (2000) and THQ's Scooby Doo (2000) (VG). After a stint as Executive Producer for the broadcast design arm of Duck Soup in Los Angeles, Ms. Foster took the Senior Producer position at Phantagram Entertainment, where she produced 32 animated cinematic sequences for the celebrated game Le Seigneur des Anneaux: Les Deux Tours (2002) based on the Peter Jackson film (Electronic Arts) as well as the opening character animated cinematic for game sequel Kingdom Under Fire: The Crusaders (2004) (NCSoft). Later, she acted as Core Producer on LEGO Universe, the AAA Massively Multiplayer Online Game for Gazillion Entertainment.
Ms. Foster joined Maddox Media as Director of New Media in 2016 where she wrote and directed spec feature, 'Cake Queen.' In 2019 she became Executive Producer for Asteri Entertainment and Publisher for Prima Games.
