Peter de Sève

Peter de Sève
Peter de Sève at San Diego Comic Con 2009
Born	1958 (age 65–66)[1] New York City, U.S.[1]
Alma mater	Parsons The New School for Design[1]
Occupation(s)	Illustrator, character designer
Spouse	Randall[2]
Website	www.peterdeseve.com

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] Most recently, he 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. Peter was honored with an Emmy Award for Outstanding Character design for his work on Sesame Street's Abby Cadabby's Flying Fairy School.^[8] He is part of the Directors Collective Hornet Incorporated company.^[9]

Work

Character designer

• The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)^[1]
• The Prince of Egypt (1998)^[1]
• Mulan (1998)^[1]
• A Bug's Life (1998)
• Tarzan (1999)^[1]
• Ice Age (2002)
• Treasure Planet (2002)
• Finding Nemo (2003)
• 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)
• Sing (2016) (uncredited)^{[citation needed]}
• Despicable Me 3 (2017) (uncredited)^{[citation needed]}
• The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022)

Visual development artist

• The Emperor's New Groove (2000)
• Monsters, Inc. (2001)
• Treasure Planet (2002)
• Ratatouille (2007)
• Epic (2013)
• Zootopia (2016) (uncredited)^{[citation needed]}
• Ferdinand (2017)

Other

• Lilo & Stitch (2002) (additional production support)

References

External links

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