Justin Leach has been added to the Otakon 2024 Guest List
Justin Leach will be a guest at Otakon 2024. He is the CEO and an executive producer at Qubic Pictures.
Leach has over two decades of experience working in the animation industry in the United States and Japan. In 1997, he began his career as an animator at Blue Sky Studios, having worked on several award-winning commercials, shorts, and films.
In 2001, he moved to Japan to work as a CG creator at Production I.G on Mamoru Oshii’s “Innocence: Ghost in the Shell 2” and “Kill Bill.” In 2005, Leach was part of the founding team hired to jump-start Lucasfilm’s new 3D animated series: “Star Wars: The Clone Wars.”
In 2007, Leach returned to work at Blue Sky to work on such films as: “Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs,” “Rio,” “Ice Age 4: Continental Drift,” “Epic,” “Rio 2,” “The Peanuts Movie,” “Ice Age: Collision Course,” and lastly, “Ferdinand.”
In December of 2012, he was the first producer to successfully make a fully crowdfunded anime called “KickHeart.” The film was written and directed by Masaaki Yuasa and created at Production I.G. The award-winning film has gone on to participate in some of the top animation and film festivals around the world. After that, he helped produce other notable titles such as “Adventure Time: Food Chain,” and “Under the Dog.”
In 2018, Leach created a new production company in Tokyo and New York called Qubic Pictures to produce his original pitch called “Eden” for Netflix, which was released May 27, 2021. His latest project is “Star Wars: Visions,” where he serves as co-executive producer for Lucasfilm. He is the executive producer of the upcoming project from Qubic Pictures, “Leviathan,” based on the books by Scott Westerfield.
Otakon 2024 will be held from August 2 to August 4 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.
