Chris Olsen (animator)

Chris Olsen
Born	Christopher Kai Olsen (1970-09-10) September 10, 1970 (age 55) United States
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Animator, Director, Producer
Known for	VeggieTales The Artsiders The White City Fosse: Prelude Karl Dahl and the Golden Cube

Chris Olsen was an American animator an Emmy nominated director, and producter.

Career

Chris attended University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1988 and graduated with Bachelor of Fine Arts at Photography and Design in 1993. ^[1] After that, he alongside Robert Ellis, hired by Phil Vischer to worked at Big Idea as an animator of VeggieTales , in which according to Phil, both are the only people he hired to have no Christian experience. In the first episode, he provided animation of main characters, Bob and Larry in entire countertop sequence, and segments Tales from the Crisper, The Water Buffalo Song, and Daniel and the Lion's Den. ^[2] After this, he worked on numerous episodes of the series as animator, also directed almost every episodes and produced, until he left in 1998, to created a home video series, Threads, which distributed by Everland Entertainment which have previously distributed many of VeggieTales videos from 1995 to 1997.

References

1. Olsen, Chris. "Chris Olsen's Linkedin Account". Linkedin.
2. What's The Big Idea? - A VeggieTales Podcast (2022-01-03). VeggieTales Where's God When I'm Scared Complete Behind the Scenes . Retrieved 2025-02-27– via YouTube.