Peter de Sève


Peter de Sève 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. 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.

Work

Character designer

Films

The Hunchback of Notre Dame Mulan The Prince of Egypt Tarzan Ice Age Treasure Planet Robots Ice Age: The Meltdown Space Chimps Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Hop Arthur Christmas Ice Age: Continental Drift The Little Prince Ice Age: Collision Course Rock Dog Monster Trucks The Grinch Spies in Disguise Extinct The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild A Greyhound of a Girl The Monkey King

Shorts

No Time for Nuts Scrat's Continental Crack-Up Scrat's Continental Crack-Up: Part 2 Phil's Dance Party Alex and Sylvia Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe
  • ''Scrat: Spaced Out''

Television

Sesame Street Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade A Tale Dark & Grimm

Visual development artist

The Hunchback of Notre Dame Mulan A Bug's Life Tarzan The Emperor's New Groove Monsters, Inc. Treasure Planet Finding Nemo Ratatouille Epic Ferdinand

Acting roles

Ice Age: The Meltdown - Condor ChickAdventures in Plymptoons! - Self

Other