Amber Naismith is a producer. Naismith's screen credits include Academy Award-winning Happy Feet, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole, the BAFTA- and AACTA-award-winning The Lego Movie, and the Lego Batman Movie, and most recently the Netflix animated feature, The Magician's Elephant. Naismith has also produced VFX for Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Ghost Ship, and the short Lego Star Wars: The Padawan Menace. In between his tenure at Animal Logic, Naismith was a production executive at the Hong Kong-based Imagi Animation Studios, responsible for overseeing the production of Gatchaman and AstroBoy. Naismith has a strong arts and design background, having graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Arts/Fine Arts and UNSW - College of Fine Arts with a Masters in Arts Administration. She is a published writer of a children's book and a prior contributor for Art Monthly Australasia. Naismith is a PGA, AACTA, and WIA member and has served as a juror for the WIA, AACTA, Visual Effects Society, and South Australian Film Awards. Winner of the AACTA award for Best Animation for The Lego Movie and nominee for the AACTA, Annie, and VES awards for Animation for The Lego Movie, The Lego Batman Movie, and Lego Star Wars. Having been based in Sydney, Australia, for most of the last 25 years, Naismith now resides in Los Angeles, CA.
