Career
St. Pierre has been heavily involved in television and feature animation since 1983, making contributions to He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, He-Man and She-Ra, Filmation's Ghostbusters, BraveStarr, and Potsworth & Co.
In 1989 he joined Walt Disney Feature Animation. His first films there included The Little Mermaid , The Prince and the Pauper , Beauty and the Beast , and Aladdin . Later works include The Lion King (1994), [10] The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), and Shark Tale (2004) [2] [11] His directorial projects include Everyone's Hero (2006) a film by the late Christopher Reeve that was completed by St. Pierre and Colin Brady, [12] [13] [14] Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2009), [2] and Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2014). [15]
While working on Tarzan (1999), he and his team at Disney developed a patented process called Deep Canvas that allowed them to animate 3-D backgrounds before animating the characters, thus enhancing the apparent depth of backgrounds. [4] [5] [6] [12] [16] [17] [18] For this he received a 1999 Annie Award nomination for "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Production Design in an Animated Feature Production". [7] [8] [9] While with Disney, he also animated a series of Christian themed films for Nest Family Entertainment, including Abraham and Isaac, Moses, and Elijah. [19]
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