1. Christopher Michael Sanders was born on March 12,1962 and is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor.
17 Facts About Chris Sanders
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Chris Sanders created the character Stitch in 1985, wrote the film's story, and voiced Stitch in almost all his media appearances.
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Chris Sanders had been interested in comic strips and filmmaking from an early age.
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Chris Sanders was the only one of three siblings in his family to borrow his father's Super 8 film camera and, with encouragement from his father towards his drawing interests, make his own comics.
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Chris Sanders later got interested in animation upon learning about the camera's single-frame feature.
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Chris Sanders went to Arvada High School in Arvada, Colorado.
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Chris Sanders began his career as a character designer for Jim Henson's Muppet Babies.
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Chris Sanders then served as lead storyboard artist for Walt Disney Feature Animation, and was a storyboard artist, artistic director, production designer, and character designer on the company's films Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, and Mulan.
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In 1985, Chris Sanders created a character named "Stitch" for an unsuccessful children's book pitch.
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When Chris Sanders was the head storyboard artist for Disney Feature Animation, then-Disney CEO Michael Eisner decided that, in the wake of a number of high-profile and large-budget Disney animated features during the mid-1990s, the studio might try its hand at a smaller and less expensive film.
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Chris Sanders was approached by Thomas Schumacher to pitch that idea, and Sanders reused the "Stitch" character he came up with.
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Chris Sanders will make his airplane look like every one he's seen before.
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Chris Sanders later stated he had no ill will over being removed from the film, and hoped he could revisit some of his ideas in the future.
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Chris Sanders shared directing and writing credits with Kirk DeMicco, who had joined in the middle of production.
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In October 2017, it was announced that Chris Sanders would be directing a new film adaptation of the 1903 Jack London novel The Call of the Wild for 20th Century Fox.
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Chris Sanders was previously thought to be gay by his colleagues in the industry, when in reality that was his gay screenwriting partner Dean DeBlois.
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In September 2023, Chris Sanders filed for divorce citing "irreconcilable differences", although he remains married to Steele-Chris Sanders as of June 2024.