John Kahrs

John Kahrs born September 18 1967 is an American actor animator and film director Kahrs attended NSCAD University graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1990 He began his career at Blue Sky Studios in New York where he worked as an animator between 1990 and 1997 He later moved to Pixar where he worked on such films as A Bugs Life The Incredibles and Ratatouille After ten years at Pixar he moved over to Disney where he animated on Bolt WreckIt Ralph and Frozen and was an animation supervisor on Tangled In 2013 he won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for his 2012 short film Paperman In August 2013 he left Walt Disney Animation Studios to develop his own projects In January 2014 it was reported that he will direct for Paramount Animation an animated film Shedd In 2020 he codirected Over the Moon with Glen Keane which was released on Netflix the same year The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature the following year but lost to Soul Description above from the Wikipedia article John Kahrs licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia