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John Christian "Chris" Wedge (Mar. 20, 1957 Binghamton, NY) is an American film director, best known for the film series Ice Age and Robots and provides the voice of Scrat, Dab, Wonderbot and Phone Booth.
Education and career
Chris Wedge attended Fayetteville-Manlius High School, graduating in 1975. [1] He received his BFA in Film from State University of New York at Purchase in Purchase, New York in 1981, and subsequently earned his MA in computer graphics and art education at the Ohio State University. [2] He has taught animation at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Wedge is co-founder and Vice President of Creative Development at Blue Sky Studios, one of the premier computer animation studios and producer of Wedge's films.
Major credits
In 1982 Wedge worked for MAGI/SynthaVision, where he was a principal animator on the Disney film Tron, credited as an image choreographer. Some of his other works include Where the Wild Things Are (1983), Dinosaur Bob, George Shrinks, and Santa Calls. In 1998 he won an Academy Award for the short animated film, Bunny. He is the voice of Wonderbot and Phone Booth in the 2005 movie Robots and Scrat in the Ice Age film series, performing the character's "squeaks and squeals". [3]
Wedge directed the animated film Epic for Blue Sky Studios, which is based on a William Joyce book. [4]
See also
References
External links
- Chris Wedge at the Internet Movie Database
- BBC interview
| Ice Age Cast |
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| Ray Romano • John Leguizamo • Denis Leary • Queen Latifah • Seann William Scott • Josh Peck • Keke Palmer • Ciara Bravo • Simon Pegg • Chris Wedge • Karen Disher • Goran Višnjić • Jack Black • Alan Tudyk • Diedrich Bader • Billy Gardell • T. J. Miller • Peter Dinklage • Jennifer Lopez • Wanda Sykes • Drake |
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