Age: 68
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Chris Buck is a film director known for directing Tarzan and Surf's Up. He also worked as supervising animator on Home on the Range and Chicken Little. Buck's 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 Bebe's Kids. He storyboarded director Tim Burton'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. 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.
Chris Buck
Director
for Director in Wish (with Disney Characters)
Suggested by tomzillawash3r3
Once upon a time, there lived a magical kingdom in the starry heavens where wishes heard from below are granted. A young girl asks the great and powerful King to grant her grandfather's wish. She later finds everyone in the kingdom acting rather unusual almost as if they were brainwashed by a darkness that's starting to form. The girl wishes upon a star to find answers. A moment later, that star arrives to her in the shape of a young boy her age, to answer her wish. An adventure begins as they meet colorful new friends like the Seven Dwarfs and Peter Pan, discover more secrets about the King and tremble as he's growing more and more powerful with all the wishes he stole, turning him into a god of pure evil. Will the girl save the kingdom and take back the wishes?
