# Shawn P. Krause

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

## Career

In 1987, he attended University of Missouri and graduated with Bachelor's Degree of Fine Art with a Minor in Art History and Archaeology in 1992. A year later, he attended California Institute of the Arts where 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. After that, he was hired at Pixar in 1994 to worked on commercials such as storyboarded Chips Ahoy! commercials, co directed a Twizzlers commercial, and directed a commercial of Levi's. After worked at commercials, he alongside fellow animator Bob Peterson get an offer which he eventually started worked as animator on the studio's first film, Toy Story and numerous Pixar projects. His contributions including led the animation teams for three Pixar features: 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. In 2016, he became a member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In August 2020, he become Creative Director of Animation and Story at Spire Animation Studios and returned to Pixar in May 2023.

## Filmography
### Feature films

* Toy Story (1995): additional animator, additional layout artist
* A Bug's Life (1998): animator
* Toy Story 2 (1999): animator
* Monsters, Inc. (2001): character developer, animator
* Finding Nemo (2003): animator
* The Incredibles (2004): animator
* Cars (2006): animator
* Ratatouille (2007): pixar productions
* Up (2009): directing animator
* Cars 2 (2011): supervising animator
* Brave (2012): additional animator
* Inside Out (2015): supervising animator
* The Good Dinosaur (2015): animator
* Finding Dory (2016): animator
* Cars 3 (2017): animator
* Incredibles 2 (2018): character developer, animator
* Toy Story 4 (2019): custom animation production
* Soul (2020): additional animator
* Inside Out 2 (2024): animator

### Short films

* 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, writer
** Dancing with the Cars (2021): animator, writer

### 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

## Video games

* Disney’s Animated Storybook: The Lion King (1994): animator, animation cleanup
* Disney’s Activity Center: Aladdin (1994): animator
* Cars Race-O-Rama (2009): special thanks

## Theme parks

* It's Tough to Be a Bug! (1998): directing animator
* Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage (2005): supervising animator
* The Seas with Nemo & Friends (2007): supervising animator