Chris Buck

DOB- 1958-02-24

Ort des Bratens- Wichita, Kansas, USA

Chris Buck is a film director known for directing Tarzan and Surf's Up. He also worked as supervising animator on Home on the Range and Chicken Little. Buck's other credits at Disney include the 1995 animated feature Pocahontas, where he oversaw the animation of three central characters: Percy, Grandmother Willow and Wiggins. Buck also helped design characters for the 1989 animated blockbuster The Little Mermaid, performed experimental animation for The Rescuers Down Under and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and was an animator on The Fox and the Hound. Buck helped develop several films at Hyperion Pictures and served as a directing animator on the feature Bebe's Kids. He storyboarded director Tim Burton's live-action featurette Frankenweenie and worked with Burton again as directing animator on the Brad Bird-directed "Family Dog" episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories and as director of the subsequent primetime animated series. Buck's credits include a number of animated commercials (including some with the Keebler Elves) for such Los Angeles-based production entities as FilmFair, Kurtz & Friends, and Duck Soup. A native of Wichita, Kansas, Buck studied character animation for two years at CalArts, where he also taught from 1988–1993.

Atemberaubend schwingt sich Tarzan wie ein Affe von Liane zu Liane und surft in rasantem Tempo durch die Baumwipfel. Seine lustigen Freunde, das freche Gorillamädchen Terk und der hyperängstliche Elefant Tantor eilen stets zu Hilfe, wenn Tarzan mal wieder in der Patsche sitzt, und dann gehts erst richtig rund! Denn Tarzan muss viele Abenteuer bestehen, bevor... Mehr lesen

Übrigens: Surfen wurde einst von den Pinguinen erfunden. Also kein Wunder, wenn die Vögel untereinander ihre eigenen Surf-Weltmeisterschaften abhalten. Grund genug für den Heißsporn Cody Maverick, von der Antarktis den nächstbesten Wal in Richtung Südsee zu nehmen, wo er dem scheinbar übermächtigen Konkurrenten Tank den Titel abnehmen will, nachdem sein Idol... Mehr lesen