Michael LaPai

Michael LaPai is a French-American director, screenwriter, animator, producer, president and occasional voice actor at Movie Land Animation Studios. He was a member of the creative team at Movie Land Digital Production Services, where he started in 1988 as a supervising animator. He is best known for directing films.

Early life
LaPai was born on May 5, 1971 to a Jewish family in France, and raised in Brooklyn, New York City.

Career
In the 1980s, he started his career as an animator at Hanna-Barbera where he worked on several projects at the newly-formed Ted-LaPai Productions studio.

In 1988, Ted-LaPai Productions was separated from Hanna-Barbera and renamed as Movie Land Animation Studios; founders Ted V. Miller and Rodney Rothman brought in some of the animators from Hanna-Barbera to the studio, and LaPai was one of them.

LaPai is Vice-President of Creativity at Movie Land Animation Studios.

Personal life
LaPai is married to Jane and they have two children: Josh and Amy.

Short films
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Unmade projects
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Television series
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Critical reception
Critical response to films LaPai has directed:

Accolades
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