Lars Fields is the creator of LOOM Animation, with over 25 years of animation experience in a broad range of scientific visualization, built on a lifelong passion for the natural world.  Lars taught himself 3D animation shortly after graduating from Emory University with a degree in anthropology. He soon began creating animations for  science, nature and historical documentaries on a myriad of subjects, including Mayan archaeology, extrasolar planets, future technologies, honeybee colony collapse disorder, space travel, and  medical illustration.

Since the early 2000's, Lars' main interest has been the recreation of extinct lifeforms, most especially from the Paleozoic Era, working with museums such as The Field Museum in Chicago, the Manitoba Museum in Winnipeg, the Melbourne Museum, and the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. For the past 10 years he as been working extensively with Jean-Bernard Caron and his associates at the ROM to reconstruct, as accurately as possible, the extinct Cambrian ecologies preserved in the remarkable Burgess Shale.