Chris Buck is an Academy Award nominated American animator, screenwriter, and director. He studied two years in the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. His 2007 CG animated film Surf's Up was nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature. He was the most famous 1980s-1990s Disney animator. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Chris Buck studied for two years at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts.

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  • Chris Buck is an Academy Award nominated American animator, screenwriter, and director. He studied two years in the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. His 2007 CG animated film Surf's Up was nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature. He was the most famous 1980s-1990s Disney animator. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Chris Buck studied for two years at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts. One of the first major projects he worked on was Disney’s The Fox and the Hound (1981), which he followed-up by helping with the short Fun with Mr. Future (1982). As his career continued to flourish, Buck likewise found animation work in commercials for such Los Angeles-based companies as FilmFair, Kurtz & Friends and Duck Soup. For Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories, Buck served as a key animator on the Brad Bird-directed episode titled Family Dog (1987). Afterward, he performed some experimental work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), before assisting in the design and animation of characters for the Disney films The Little Mermaid (1989) and The Rescuers Down Under (1990). Buck then moved to Hyperion Pictures, directing animation for the feature Bébé's Kids (1992).
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  • Chris Buck is an Academy Award nominated American animator, screenwriter, and director. He studied two years in the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. His 2007 CG animated film Surf's Up was nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature. He was the most famous 1980s-1990s Disney animator. Born in Wichita, Kansas, Chris Buck studied for two years at the prestigious California Institute of the Arts, commonly referred to as CalArts.
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  • Chris Buck
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