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Shawn P. Krause

American animator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Shawn P. Krause is an animator of Pixar Animation Studios and once a Creative Director of Animation and Story at Spire Animation Studios.[1]

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Early life

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Shawn P. Krause was born to Ron Krause, who was a previous manager of Krause Key & Lock, a prominent key store and locksmith service in St. Louis that was established in 1947 by Shawn’s grandfather William, and it currently managed by Shawn’s older brother, Eric. The store itself also featured during the credits of the film, Inside Out, in which Shawn worked as a supervising animator.[2][3] He was a native of Mehlville[4], he became interested in animation since his mother took him to watched one of the re-releases of a Disney animated feature, Pinocchio and he used to make flip books. He also cited Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston as his influence, in which he owned and read their famous book, The Illusion of Life and he also watched the said animators appeared as guests at one of the episodes of The Tonight Show, a show he used to watch.[5] He attended the schools of Mehlville School District, such as Margaret Buerkle Middle School and Mehlville High School.[6][7] After he graduated in 1987, he attended the University of Missouri and graduated with Bachelor's Degree of Fine Art with a Minor in Art History and Archaeology in 1992.[6] A year later, he attended the California Institute of the Arts, where one of his teachers including veteran animator, Larry White who showed him some of early animated short films made by Pixar such as The Adventures of André & Wally B., and Luxo Jr. that made him become interest in computer animation and he also met some of classmates who later become fellow animators who also worked at Pixar with him including Sanjay Patel, Mark Walsh, Stephen Gregory, Tasha Wedeen, and Bobby Podesta.[5] He created one of his student films, The Bicycle Thieves, his first year short film that caught the attention of Pete Docter, and it also made it into CalArts Producer's Show.[8] During his second semester, his sessions at that college were halted due to the 1994 Northridge earthquake. He never earned a degree of this college due to never finished all the semesters.[5]

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Career

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After that in 1994, he started his animation career when he was hired at Creative Capers Entertainment to briefly worked on PC games based on Disney films, which he was credited for making clean up on animations on a Disney's Animated Storybook game based on The Lion King and a Disney's Activity Center game based on Aladdin that were both released in the same year.[5] He later got contacted by Pixar, in which he was later hired during the studio itself in hiatus. He started worked there on commercials such as storyboarded Chips Ahoy! commercials. By Darla K. Anderson, he offered a role to directed commercials in which he co directed a Twizzlers commercial (with Jan Pinkava as a director), and directed a commercial of Levi's.[5] After worked at commercials, he alongside fellow animator Bob Peterson who also had previously storyboarded Chips Ahoy! commercials with him got an offer from the studio itself in which he eventually started worked as an animator on the studio's first feature, Toy Story as his first credited work at the studio and afterwards, worked on numerous Pixar projects.[5] His contributions including led the animation teams for three Pixar features such as, Up, Cars 2 and Inside Out. As one of supervising animators of Inside Out, he won on 14th VES Awards in a category of Outstanding Animated Performance in an Animated Feature for animating the feature's main character, Joy.[9] In 2016, he became a member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[10] In August 2020, he become Creative Director of Animation and Story at Spire Animation Studios and returned to Pixar in May 2023.[8] Aside from his career from Pixar, he also experienced volunteership in Verde Valley School, where he has been a guest instructor since June 2013, in which he led a week-long filmmaking class for select student’s end-of-year called 'Project Period' and became a member of Board of Trustees in January 2017.[8]

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Filmography

Commercials

Feature films

Short films

  • The Bicycle Thieves (1993): entirety[6]
  • Jack-Jack Attack (2005): animator
  • Riley's First Date? (2015): supervising animator
  • Bao (2018): additional visual development artist
  • Lamp Life (2020): supervising animator
  • Pixar Popcorn (2021):
    • Soul of the City (2021): animator, story
    • Dancing with the Cars (2021): animator, story

TV series

  • Dug Days (2021):
    • Puppies (2021): animator
  • Dream Productions (2024):
    • Part 1: The Dream Team (2024): additional animator
    • Part 2: Out of Body (2024): additional animator
    • Part 3: Romance! (2024): additional animator
    • Part 4: A Night to Remember (2024): additional animator

Documentaries

  • A Day in the Life of John Lasseter (2011): himself[12]

Video games

Theme parks

Bibliography

  • Disney Pixar's Toy Story Manga: 30th Anniversary Edition (2025): foreword[13]

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