Chris Buck is an Acadamy-Award winning film director who is well known for directing Tarzan and Surf's Up. Buck has been a major creative force in the world of animation for over two decades. He also worked as supervising animators on Home on the Range and Chicken Little. Before directing Surf's Up he worked on Open Season but appared under special thanks.

Buck's other credits at Disney include the 1995 animated feature Pocahontas, on which he oversaw the animation of three central characters: Percy, Grandmother Willow and Wiggins. Buck also helped design characters for the 1989 animated blockbuster The Little Mernaid, performed experimental animation for The Rescuers Down Under and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and was an animator on The Fox and the Hound.

His career also has included a stint at Hyperion Pictures, where Buck helped develop several films and served as a directing animator on the feature Bebe's Kids. He joined creative forces with director Tim Burton to help storyboard Disney's live-action featurette Frankenweenie and worked with Burton again as directing animator on the Brad Bird-directed Family Dog episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories and as director of the subsequent primetime animated series.

Additionally, Buck's credits include a number of animated commercials (including some with the Keebler Elves) for such Los Angeles-based production entities as FilmFair, Kurtz & Friends, and Duck Soup.

A native of Wichita, Kansas, Buck studied character animation for two years at CalArts, where he also taught from 1988-1993.

[edit] Selected filmography

• The Fox and the Hound (1981-character animator)
• Amazing Stories - Family Dog (1987 - TV episode-director)
• The Brave Little Toaster (1987-character designer)
• Oliver & Company (1988-animator)
• The Little Mermaid (1989-character designer)
• The Rescuers Down Under (1990-character animator)
• Box-Office Bunny (1990-key animator)
• Pochahontas (1995-supervising animator: Percy)
• Tarzan (1999-director, creative development)
• Home on the Range (2004-supervising animator: Maggie)
• Chicken Little (2005-supervising animator: Aby Mallard)
• Open Season (special thanks)
• Surf's Up (2007-screenplay, director, voice of Filmmakers)

[edit] External links

• Entry on Chris Buck at the Internet Movie Database

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