Christopher 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 Chris 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. After high school, Sauvé attended Sheridan College where he began to study animation.
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.
Directing credits Futurama episodes "Fear of a Bot Planet" (co-directed with Peter Avanzino, Carlos Baeza and Ashley Lenz) "The Lesser of Two Evils" "The Problem with Popplers" (co-directed with Gregg Vanzo)
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 Notes1989The Railway DragonAnimatorThe Teddy Bears' PicnicBabar: The Movie1992FernGully: The Last Rainforest1993Once Upon a ForestSupervising animatorA Cool Like That ChristmasAnimator1994Asterix in America1995Pocahontas1996The Hunchback of Notre Dame1999The Iron GiantSupervising animator2001Atlantis: The Lost EmpireAnimator2003Brother BearAdditional animatorLooney Tunes Back in ActionAnimator2004Home on the Range2006The WildStoryboard artistEveryone's HeroSupervising animator2013Legends of Oz: Dorothy's ReturnHead of Story2014The Nut JobAnimator2015Cobain: Montage of Heck 2017Animal CrackersStoryboard artist2018Mary Poppins ReturnsAnimation supervisor
Television Year Series Notes1987The RaccoonsAnimatorMy Pet MonsterAnimation posing artist1988Dennis the MenaceKey Animator1991–1993The Ren & Stimpy ShowAnimator1993The Pink PantherAnimation director (1 episode)1999FuturamaDirector (3 episodes), animation timer2000Baby BluesDirector (1 episode)2002–2005My Life as a Teenage RobotDirector (11 episodes), Storyboard revisionist (1 episode), Sheet timer20023-SouthAnimation timer2006American Dad!Lip assignment2014–2016Gravity FallsTiming director (6 episodes)
Music videos Year Title Notes1997"I Miss You" by BjörkAnimator
Video games Year Title Notes1994Pitfall: The Mayan AdventureAdditional animator
References
External links
Chris Sauve's blog