Early life
Shawn P. Krause was born to Ron Krause, who was a previous manager of Krause Key & Lock, a prominent key store and locksmith service in St. Louis that was established in 1947 by Shawn’s grandfather William, and it currently managed by Shawn’s older brother, Eric. The store itself also featured during the credits of the film, Inside Out, in which Shawn worked as a supervising animator. [2] [3] He was a native of Mehlville [4] , he became interested in animation since his mother took him to watched one of the re-releases of a Disney animated feature, Pinocchio and inspired by duo, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston in which he read one of their books, The Illusion of Life. [5] he attended the schools of Mehlville School District, such as Margaret Buerkle Middle School and Mehlville High School. [6] [7] After he graduated in 1987, he attended the University of Missouri and graduated with Bachelor's Degree of Fine Art with a Minor in Art History and Archaeology in 1992. [6] A year later, he attended the California Institute of the Arts, where one of his teachers including veteran animator, Larry White who showed him some of early animated short films made by Pixar and he met some of classmates who later become fellow animators who also worked at Pixar including Sanjay Patel, Mark Walsh, Stephen Gregory, Tasha Wedeen, and Bobby Podesta. [5] He created one of his student films, The Bicycle Thieves, his first year short film that caught the attention of Pete Docter, and it also made it into CalArts Producer's Show. During his second semester, his session at that college was halted due to the 1994 Northridge earthquake. He never earned a degree of this college due to never finished all the semesters. [6] [8]
Career
After that in 1994, he started his animation career when he was hired at Creative Capers Entertainment to worked on PC games based on Disney films [5] , followed by his early career at Pixar in which he was hired during the studio’s hiatus. He started worked there on commercials such as storyboarded Chips Ahoy! commercials. By Darla K. Anderson, he offered a role to directed commercials in which he co directed a Twizzlers commercial (with Jan Pinkava as a director), and directed a commercial of Levi's. [5] After worked at commercials, he alongside fellow animator Bob Peterson get an offer which he eventually started worked as animator on the studio's first film, Toy Story and afterwards, worked on numerous Pixar projects. [5] His contributions including led the animation teams for three Pixar features such as, Up, Cars 2 and Inside Out . As one of supervising animators of Inside Out, he won on 14th VES Awards in a category of Outstanding Animated Performance in an Animated Feature for animating the feature's main character, Joy . [9] In 2016, he became a member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [10] In August 2020, he become Creative Director of Animation and Story at Spire Animation Studios and returned to Pixar in May 2023. [8] Aside from his career from Pixar, he also experienced volunteership in Verde Valley School, where he has been a guest instructor since June 2013, in which he led a week-long filmmaking class for select student’s end-of-year called 'Project Period' and became a member of Board of Trustees in January 2017. [8]
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