John Kahrs

John Kahrs is an American animator and film director.

Kahrs attended NSCAD University, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1990.[2]  He began his career at Blue Sky Studios in New York, where he worked as an animator between 1990 and 1997.[3]  He later moved to Pixar, where he worked on such films as A Bug's Life, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille. After ten years at Pixar,[3]  he moved over to Disney, where he animated on Bolt, Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen, and was an animation supervisor on Tangled.[4]

In 2013, he won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for his 2012 short film, Paperman.[5]

In August 2013, he left Walt Disney Animation Studios to develop his own projects.[6]  In January 2014, it was reported that he will direct for Paramount Animation an animated film Shedd.[7]

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