Swedish-American animation background and layout artist, as well as production designer, trained at the Santa Barbara School of the Arts. He did his best work for Chuck Jones at Warner Brothers, where he was at times noted for his modernist, UPA-lookalike, stylised backgrounds (as in "Broom-Stick Bunny",1956). Nordlii began in the business animating Donald Duck cartoons for Disney in 1936 and went on to serve as art director/layout artist on "Dumbo" and "Fantasia".