Chris Sauve

Chris Sauvé is a Canadian animator. He has done some directing, but works primarily as an animator. He has worked on several television shows (The Raccoons, The Ren & Stimpy Show, Futurama, Baby Blues, and My Life as a Teenage Robot) and films (The Iron Giant, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Home on the Range, The Wild, and Mary Poppins Returns).

Career

Christopher Sauvé grew up in Ontario, Canada just outside of Mississauga. At a young age, Sauvé received a book on the art of Disney Animation, which he obsessed over and began to use as reference to learn to draw.[1] After high school, Sauvé attended Sheridan College where he began to study animation.[2]

Since college, Sauvé began working primarily in television animation and animated films in Canada. Over the course of 30 years, he worked several different positions in the field of animation, including character animation, key animation, animation supervision, storyboard art, timing, and directing. Sauvé has worked for many major studios in the animation industry, including Nickelodeon, Warner Bros. Animation, Disney Television Animation, and Disney Feature Animation.[1][2]

Directing credits

Futurama episodes

My Life as a Teenage Robot episodes

  • "Hostile Makeover/Grid Iron Glory"
  • "Dressed To Kill/Shell Game"
  • "The Wonderful World of Wizzly/Call Hating"
  • "A Robot For All Seasons"
  • "Future Shock/Humiliation 101"
  • "Last Action Zero/Mind Over Matter"
  • "Love 'Em Or Leash 'Em/Teen Team Time"
  • "Pajama Party Prankapalooza/Sister Sledgehammer"
  • "Dancing with My Shell/Around the World in Eighty Pieces"
  • "Armagedroid/Killgore"
  • "A Pain In My Sidekick/Crash Pad Crash"
  • "Victim of Fashion"
  • "Designing Women/Robot Riot"
  • "Bradventure/Mama Drama"
  • "Toying with Jenny/Teenage Mutant Ninja Troubles"
  • "Weapons of Mass Distraction/There's No Place Like Home School"
  • "Teen Idol/Good Old Sheldon"

Filmography

Film

Year Film Notes
1989 The Railway Dragon Animator
The Teddy Bears' Picnic
Babar: The Movie
1992 FernGully: The Last Rainforest
1993 Once Upon a Forest Supervising animator
A Cool Like That Christmas Animator
1994 Asterix in America
1995 Pocahontas
1996 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1999 The Iron Giant Supervising animator
2001 Atlantis: The Lost Empire Animator
2003 Brother Bear Additional animator
Looney Tunes Back in Action Animator
2004 Home on the Range
2006 The Wild Storyboard artist
Everyone's Hero Supervising animator
2013 Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return Head of Story
2014 The Nut Job Animator
2015 Cobain: Montage of Heck
2017 Animal Crackers Storyboard artist
2018 Mary Poppins Returns Animation supervisor

Television

Year Series Notes
1987 The Raccoons Animator
My Pet Monster Animation posing artist
1988 Dennis the Menace Key Animator
1991–1993 The Ren & Stimpy Show Animator
1993 The Pink Panther Animation director (1 episode)
1999 Futurama Director (3 episodes), animation timer
2000 Baby Blues Director (1 episode)
2002–2005 My Life as a Teenage Robot Director (11 episodes), Storyboard revisionist (1 episode), Sheet timer
2002 3-South Animation timer
2006 American Dad! Lip assignment
2014–2016 Gravity Falls Timing director (6 episodes)

Music videos

Year Title Notes
1997 "I Miss You" by Björk Animator

Video games

Year Title Notes
1994 Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure Additional animator

References

  1. ^ a b "Chris Suave – Burbank ArtsBurbank Arts | An Arts Destination". Burbank Arts. Retrieved 2022-08-10.
  2. ^ a b "Drawn To It Podcast: Drawn To IT Podcast - EP 64 - With Chris Sauve, 2D Animator, Director, Supervisor on Apple Podcasts". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2022-08-10.


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