Chris Buck

Chris Buck is a film director known for directing Tarzan and Surfs Up He also worked as supervising animator on Home on the Range and Chicken Little Bucks other credits at Disney include the 1995 animated feature Pocahontas where 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 Mermaid performed experimental animation for The Rescuers Down Under and Who Framed Roger Rabbit and was an animator on The Fox and the Hound Buck helped develop several films at Hyperion Pictures and served as a directing animator on the feature Bebes Kids He storyboarded director Tim Burtons liveaction featurette Frankenweenie and worked with Burton again as directing animator on the Brad Birddirected Family Dog episode of Steven Spielbergs Amazing Stories and as director of the subsequent primetime animated series Bucks credits include a number of animated commercials including some with the Keebler Elves for such Los Angelesbased 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 19881993