Early life
Shawn P. Krause was born to Ron Krause and Jacqueline Laverne Krause (née Kissel). [2] Ron was a previous and second-generation manager of “Krause Key & Lock”, a prominent key store and locksmith service in St. Louis, and was a business that has been established in 1947 by Shawn’s paternal grandfather, William Krause. The store itself also made its appearance during one of the montages in the end credits of Inside Out, a film in which Shawn worked as a supervising animator. [3] [4] He had an older brother named Eric Krause, who is a current and the third-generation manager of the said store and a sister, Candace “Candy” Gehricke (née Krause). [3] [5] His maternal aunt who was his mother’s older sister, Audrey Susan Lafser (née Kissel), who was known as Audrey Kissel was an infielder who played for Minneapolis Millerettes team in the 1944 season of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. [6] He became interested in animation since his mother took him to watched one of the re-releases of a Disney animated feature, Pinocchio and he also spent his childhood making flip books. He also cited prominent Disney veteran animators, Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston as his influence, in which he owned and read the famous book they have created, The Illusion of Life and he also watched the both said animators when they appeared as guest stars at one of the episodes of The Tonight Show, a show he used to watch. [7] He also used to watch animated shorts by Warner Bros. Cartoons, such as Looney Tunes with his father. [8] As a native of Mehlville, he attended the schools of Mehlville School District, such as Margaret Buerkle Middle School and Mehlville High School. [5] [9] After he graduated from the said high school 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. [5] A year later, he attended the California Institute of the Arts, where among his teachers including a veteran animator, Larry White who showed him some of early animated short films made by Pixar such as The Adventures of André & Wally B. , and Luxo Jr. that made him become interest in computer animation and his teacher in character design, is a prominent Disney veteran artist, Sue C. Nichols. [10] Some of his classmates were later become fellow animators who also worked at Pixar with him including Sanjay Patel, Mark Walsh, Stephen Gregory, Tasha Wedeen, and Bobby Podesta. [7] 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. [11] During his second semester, his sessions at that college were temporarily halted due to the 1994 Northridge earthquake. At this time, he never earned a degree of this college due to never finished all the semesters, in which according to one of his interviews, he expressed regret. [7]
Career
After that in 1994, he started his animation career when he was hired at Creative Capers Entertainment to briefly worked on PC games based on Disney films, which he was credited for making clean up on animations on a Disney's Animated Storybook game based on The Lion King and a Disney's Activity Center game based on Aladdin that were both released in the same year. [7] He later got contacted by Pixar, in which he was later hired during the studio itself in 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. [7] After worked at commercials, he alongside fellow animator Bob Peterson who also had previously storyboarded Chips Ahoy! commercials with him got an offer from the studio itself in which he eventually started worked as an animator on the studio's first feature, Toy Story as his first credited work at the studio and afterwards, worked on numerous Pixar projects. [7] 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 . [12] In 2016, he became a member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [13] In August 2020, he become Creative Director of Animation and Story at Spire Animation Studios and returned to Pixar in May 2023. [11] 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. [11]
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