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, , Home on the Range, The Wild, and Mary Poppins Returns).
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.
| Year | Film | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | The Railway Dragon | Animator | |
| The Teddy Bears' Picnic | |||
| 1992 | |||
| 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 | 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 | Head of Story | ||
| 2014 | The Nut Job | Animator | |
| 2015 | |||
| 2017 | Animal Crackers | Storyboard artist | |
| 2018 | Mary Poppins Returns | Animation supervisor |
| 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) |