Peter de Sève
American artist
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Peter de Sève is an American[3] artist who has worked in the illustration and animation fields. He has drawn many covers for the magazine The New Yorker. As a character designer, he worked on the characters of A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo, Robots, the Ice Age franchise, and on the main animal character E.B. (voiced by Russell Brand) in the 2011 Easter-themed comedy film Hop.[4]
- Illustrator
- character designer
Peter de Sève | |
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Peter de Sève at San Diego Comic Con 2009 | |
| Born | 1958 (age 67–68)[1] New York City, U.S.[1] |
| Alma mater | Parsons The New School for Design[1] |
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| Spouse | Randall de Sève[2] |
| Website | peterdeseve |
de Sève designed the characters for Arthur Christmas,[5] for which he was nominated for Annie Award.[6] He received the National Cartoonists Society Magazine Illustration Award for 2000.[7] He is also a recipient of the Hamilton King Award from the Society of Illustrators, a Clio Award for a Nike television commercial, and a Visual Effects Society Award nomination for Outstanding Animated Character Design for Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
de Sève won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Design for his work on the Sesame Street segment Abby Cadabby's Flying Fairy School.[8] He is part of the Directors Collective Hornet Incorporated company.[9]
Work
Character designer
Films
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)[1]
- Mulan (1998)[1]
- The Prince of Egypt (1998)[1]
- Tarzan (1999)[1]
- Ice Age (2002)
- Treasure Planet (2002)
- Robots (2005)
- Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
- Space Chimps (2008)
- Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)
- Hop (2011)[4]
- Arthur Christmas (2011)[5]
- Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012)[10]
- The Little Prince (2015)[11]
- Ice Age: Collision Course (2016)
- Rock Dog (2016)
- Monster Trucks (2017)
- The Grinch (2018)
- Spies in Disguise (2019)
- Extinct (2021)
- The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022)
- A Greyhound of a Girl (2023)
- The Monkey King (2023)
- Migration (2023)
Shorts
- No Time for Nuts (2006)
- Scrat's Continental Crack-Up (2010)
- Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2 (2011)
- Phil's Dance Party (2012)
- Alex and Sylvia (2015)
- Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe (2015)
- Scrat: Spaced Out (2016)
Television
- Sesame Street (2009-2012) (Abby's Flying Fairy School segments)
- Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (2012)
- Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade (2016)
- A Tale Dark & Grimm (2021)
- Ice Age: Scrat Tales (2022)
Visual development artist
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)[1]
- Mulan (1998)[1]
- A Bug's Life (1998)
- Tarzan (1999)[1]
- The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
- Monsters, Inc. (2001)
- Treasure Planet (2002)
- Finding Nemo (2003)
- Ratatouille (2007)
- Epic (2013)
- Ferdinand (2017)
- The Christmas Chronicles (2018)
Acting roles
- Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) - Condor Chick
- Adventures in Plymptoons! (2011) - Self
Books (Partial list)
- Sketchbook Peter de Sève (2003) (ISBN 978-2940334018)
- A Sketchy Past: The Art of Peter de Sève (2009) (ISBN 978-2355740992)
- The Duchess of Whimsy with Randall de Sève (2009) (ISBN 978-0399250958)
- Local Fauna: The Art of Peter de Sève (2023) (ISBN 978-1419768064)
- The Visitor et autres dessins, Peter de Sève (2024) (ISBN 978-2386400049)
Other
- Lilo & Stitch (2002) (additional production support)
