Peter de Sève

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]

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

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

1. "Peter deSeve - 2006". Lamar Dodd School of Art. The University of Georgia. Retrieved February 12, 2012.
2. de Sève, Peter. "Biography". Peter de Sève. Retrieved February 4, 2012.
3. "Peter de Sève - Illustration History". www.illustrationhistory.org. Retrieved 2024-02-07.
4. Lesnick, Silas (June 26, 2010). "Hop's Rabbit Designed by Peter DeSéve". ComingSoon.net. Archived from the original on June 30, 2010. Retrieved February 4, 2012.
5. de Sève, Peter (November 10, 2011). "Arthur Christmas". A SKETCHY PAST, THE ART OF PETER DE SÈVE. Retrieved February 4, 2012.
6. DeMott, Rick (December 5, 2011). "39th Annie Award Nominations Announced". Animation World Network. Retrieved February 4, 2012.
7. "NCS Awards - Magazine Feature & Magazine Illustration". National Cartoonists Society. Retrieved April 3, 2012.
8. "Peter de Sève". www.peterdeseve.com. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
9. "PETER DE SEVE". Hornet. Archived from the original on January 27, 2012. Retrieved April 3, 2012.
10. De Sève, Peter (July 16, 2012). "A decade has now passed since I did my very first..." A Sketchy Past, The Art of Peter de Sève. Retrieved October 26, 2012.
11. Foundas, Scott (May 22, 2015). "Cannes Film Review: 'The Little Prince'". Variety. Retrieved August 10, 2015.

External links

• Peter de Sève's website
• Peter de Sève's blog
• Peter de Sève at IMDb