Peter de Sève

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Peter de Sève

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New York City, New York, USA

Peter de Sève (born 1958) is an American artist who has worked in the illustration and animation fields. He has drawn many covers for the magazine The New Yorker. As a character d…

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Finding Nemo

Finding Nemo

7.8 2003 Movie
Monsters, Inc.

Monsters, Inc.

7.9 2001 Movie
Ratatouille

Ratatouille

7.8 2007 Movie
Zootopia

Zootopia

7.8 2016 Movie
Ice Age

Ice Age

7.4 2002 Movie
Mulan

Mulan

7.9 1998 Movie
Ice Age: The Meltdown

Ice Age: The Meltdown

6.7 2006 Movie
A Bug's Life

A Bug's Life

7.0 1998 Movie
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

6.8 2009 Movie
Ice Age: Continental Drift

Ice Age: Continental Drift

6.4 2012 Movie
Robots

Robots

6.5 2005 Movie
Ice Age: Collision Course

Ice Age: Collision Course

6.1 2016 Movie

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Peter de Sève (born 1958) is an American 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. de Sève designed the characters for Arthur Christmas, for which he was nominated for Annie Award. He received the National Cartoonists Society Magazine Illustration Award for 2000. 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. He is part of the Directors Collective Hornet Incorporated company. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter de Sève, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Movies and shows, newest first

  1. 2027
    Ice Age: Boiling Point

    Movie Character Designer

  2. 2026
    Toy Story 5

    Movie Character Designer

  3. 2026
    Animal Farm

    Movie Character Designer

  4. 2025
    Elio

    Movie Character Designer

  5. 2024
    The Polar Bear Prince

    Movie Character Designer

  6. 2023
    Migration

    Movie Character Designer

  7. 2023
    A Greyhound of a Girl

    Movie Character Designer

  8. 2022
    The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild

    Movie Character Designer

  9. 2021
    Extinct

    Movie Character Designer

  10. 2017
    Ferdinand

    Movie Visual Development

  11. 2016
    Ice Age: Collision Course

    Movie Character Designer

  12. 2016
    Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade

    Movie Character Designer

  13. 2016
    Zootopia

    Movie Visual Development

  14. 2015
    Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe

    Movie Character Designer

  15. 2015
    The Little Prince

    Movie Character Designer

  16. 2012
    Ice Age: Continental Drift

    Movie Character Designer

More credits
  1. 2011
    Arthur Christmas

    Movie Character Designer

  2. 2011
    Adventures in Plymptoons!

    Movie Self

  3. 2011
    Hop

    Movie Character Designer

  4. 2009
    Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

    Movie Character Designer

  5. 2007
    Ratatouille

    Movie Additional Effects Development

  6. 2006
    No Time for Nuts

    Movie Creature Design

  7. 2006
    Ice Age: The Meltdown

    Movie Condor Chick (voice)

  8. 2005
    Robots

    Movie Character Designer

  9. 2003
    Finding Nemo

    Movie Visual Development

  10. 2002
    Treasure Planet

    Movie Visual Development

  11. 2002
    Gone Nutty

    Movie Thanks

  12. 2002
    Ice Age

    Movie Character Designer

  13. 2001
    Monsters, Inc.

    Movie Visual Development

  14. 1999
    How to Haunt a House

    Movie Visual Development

  15. 1998
    A Bug's Life

    Movie Visual Development

  16. 1998
    Mulan

    Movie Character Designer