History Creator / ChrisSanders

* ''Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch'' (2005): Voice of Stitch

* TsurimeEyes: Post-Lilo and Stitch, where 90% of the characters were of Polynesian descent, he's kept that particular feature in all of his drawings.

* ''ComicBook/GarfieldHisNineLives'' (1988): Styling -- "Diana's Piano" segment

* ''WesternAnimation/LeroyAndStitch'' (2006): Voice of Stitch and Leroy

* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' (2003--2006): Voice of Stitch

!!! Television:

!!! Video Games (all as the voice of Stitch):

Christopher Michael "Chris" Sanders (born March 12, 1962) is an animation director, story artist, comic strip artist, illustrator and voice actor, noted for his distinctive art style and managing to earn massive success with two of the biggest animation companies today: Creator/{{Disney}} and Creator/DreamworksAnimation. He worked extensively with the former during TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation, and achieved success with directing partner Dean [=DeBlois=] on his brainchild, ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'', and has also been the voice of most every appearance of Stitch. In 2006 however, he left the company after being removed as the director of ''American Dog'' (which would later become ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'') and went to work with Disney's greatest rival--[=DreamWorks=].

!! Films he's worked on:
* ''Disney/TheRescuersDownUnder'': Character designer, storyboard artist
* ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'': visual development and story artist.
* ''Disney/TheLionKing'': story artist, production designer
* ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'': screenwriter, voice of Little Brother
* ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'': Director, writer, character designer, voice of Stitch
* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'': Director, screenwriter, teaming up once again with [=DeBlois=]. His biggest financial and critical success to date.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'': Director, screenwriter, voice of Belt.

** He used to have problems with [[OnlySixFaces making most females and general background characters unique]]. The practice on drawing different faces really shows almost immediately, and now, all of his works are more of less [[CastOfSnowflakes cast full of snowflakes-territory]].

Chris Sanders (born March 12, 1962) is an animation director, story artist, comic strip artist, illustrator and voice actor, noted for his distinctive art style and managing to earn massive success with two of the biggest animation companies today: Creator/{{Disney}} and Creator/DreamworksAnimation. He worked extensively with the former during TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation, and achieved success with directing partner Dean [=DeBlois=] on his brainchild, ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'', and has also been the voice of most every appearance of Stitch. In 2006 however, he left the company after being removed as the director of ''American Dog'' (which would later become ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'') and went to work with Disney's greatest rival--[=DreamWorks=].

* ArtEvolution: Compare ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' to his more recent works, or even Kiskaloo. His proportions have become a lot more cartoony, and it's somehow become [[PuniPlush easier to count the straight lines in his work]]. His general skill has also improved greatly, and he has posted a very long tutorial on dA about how he made one drawing.
** He used to have problems with [[OnlySixFaces making most females and general background characters unique]]. The practise on drawing different faces really shows almost immediately, and now, all of his works are more of less [[CastOfSnowflakes cast full of snowflakes-territory]].
* AwesomeArt: To put it simply, he's a really really good artist. Then again, drawing for 40 or so years [[ArtEvolution probably has a part to play]].
* BleachedUnderpants: You'd be suprised; then again, some of his characters, [[ShesGotLegs female]] or [[WalkingShirtlessScene male]] are all pretty good examples of [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar being fanservicey in kids' movies]].
* {{Fanservice}}: Half of his [=dA=] gallery has a "mature content" block over it. The other half is composed of his slightly more SFW drawings of women.

* OrphanedSeries: His webcomic Kiskaloo hasn't been updated since 2008.
** Not neccesarily; while it hasn't updated in several years, Sanders often makes posts about it, and Volume #2 is being worked on. Then again, working on two movies consecutively drained him. Long story short, he said he's been ready to draw again since December of 2013-ish, and that he has been working on it; he also posts character concepts on his facebook.

* PuniPlush: His primary art style. Over the years, it's gather somes traits of [[{{Animesque}} anime-influences]], likely because of his occasional trips to Japan. Stitch is basically Japan's Mickey Mouse.

* TsurimeEyes: Post-Lilo and Stitch, where 90% of the characters were of polynesian descent, he's kept that particular feature in all of his drawings.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: He posts many of these things on his blog. For example, a cut scene from The Croods, the storyboards depicted Eep and Guy on a date. They just watched things sinking in the tar; it was not going well. Or a scrapped - and second variation - of a sequence from Lilo and Stitch composed of several hundred drawings; enough to sit on, and cover an entire room with. And this was cut... and it was the second attempt. In other words, there's a storyboard of another few thousand drawings out there.

Chris Sanders is an animation director, story artist, comic strip artist, illustrator and voice actor (born on March 12, 1962), noted for his distinctive art style and managing to earn massive success with two of the biggest animation companies today: {{Disney}} and [[DreamworksAnimation [=DreamWorks=] Animation]]. He worked extensively with the former during TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation, and achieved success with directing partner Dean [=DeBlois=] on his brainchild, ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'', and has also been the voice of most every appearance of Stitch. In 2006 however, he left the company after being removed as the director of ''American Dog'' (which would later become ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'') and went to work with Disney's greatest rival-[=DreamWorks=].

You can visit his blog [[http://www.chrissandersart.com/ here]], his Twitter [[https://twitter.com/Chris_Sanders_ here]], and [=deviantArt=] account [[http://alohalilo.deviantart.com/ here]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'': Director, screenwriter.

* ''Disney/{{Mulan}}'': screenwriter
* ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'': Director, writer, character designer.

Chris Sanders is an animation director, comic strip artist, illustrator and voice actor (born on March 12, 1962), noted for his distinctive art style and managing to earn massive success with two of the biggest animation companies today: {{Disney}} and [[DreamworksAnimation [=DreamWorks=] Animation]]. He worked extensively with the former during TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation, and achieved success with directing partner Dean [=DeBlois=] on his brainchild, ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'', and has also been the voice of most every appearance of Stitch. In 2006 however, he left the company after being removed as the director of ''American Dog'' (which would later become ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'') and went to work with Disney's greatest rival-[=DreamWorks=].

* ''TheCroods'': Director, screenwriter.

* ''Film/HowToTrainYourDragon'': Director, screenwriter, teaming up once again with [=DeBlois=]. His biggest financial and critical success to date.

Chris Sanders is an animation director and voice actor (born on March 12, 1962), noted for his distinctive art style and managing to earn massive success with two of the biggest animation companies today: {{Disney}} and [[DreamworksAnimation [=DreamWorks=] Animation]]. He worked extensively with the former during TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation, and achieved success with directing partner Dean [=DeBlois=] on his brainchild, ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'', and has also been the voice of most every appearance of Stitch. In 2006 however, he left the company after being removed as the director of ''American Dog'' (which would later become ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'') and went to work with Disney's greatest rival-[=DreamWorks=].

Chris Sanders is an animation director and voice actor (born on March 12, 1962), noted for his distinctive art style and managing to earn massive success with two of the biggest animation companies today: {{Disney}} and [[DreamworksAnimation [=DreamWorks=] Animation]]. He worked extensively with the former during TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation, and achieved success with directing partner Dean [=DeBlois=] on his brainchild, ''LiloAndStitch'', and has also been the voice of most every appearance of Stitch. In 2006 however, he left the company after being removed as the director of ''American Dog'' (which would later become ''Disney/{{Bolt}}'') and went to work with Disney's greatest rival-[=DreamWorks=].

* ''LiloAndStitch'': Director, writer, character designer.

* ArtEvolution: Compare ''Main/LiloAndStitch'' to his more recent works, or even Kiskaloo. His proportions have become a lot more cartoony, and it's somehow become [[PuniPlush easier to count the straight lines in his work]]. His general skill has also improved greatly, and he has posted a very long tutorial on dA about how he made one drawing.

* BigBeautifulWoman: Most of his female character designs are chubby, and he puts particular attention into making the legs long and luscious.

* GagBoobs: Of the gravity defying variety!

* PuniPlush: His primary art style. Over the years, it's gather somes traits of [[Animesque anime-influences]], likely because of his occasional trips to Japan. Stitch is basically Japan's Mickey Mouse.

* ShowDontTell: Unlike most Western animated fare for children, his films include some remarkably subtle scenes where characters can just act without talking more than a handful of lines, if at all. Used to great effect in ''Film/HowToTrainYourDragon''.

* AuthorAppeal: Curved lines, Hawaiian themes, long-legged and busty women, men with a nice set of pecs, huge alien spaceships, cute animals (whom he more often or not voices), long, flowing hair, and coffee, to name a few things that he really likes, and often appear in his works.

* ArtEvolution: Compare ''Main/LiloAndStitch'' to his more recent works, or even Kiskaloo. His proportions have become a lot more cartoony, and it's somehow become [[PuniPlush easier to count the straight lines in his work]]. His general skill has also improved greatly, and he has posted a very long tutorial on dA.
* AwesomeArt: To put it simply, he's a really really good artist. Then again, drawing for 40 or so years [[ArtEvolution probably had an effect]].

* ShowDontTell: Unlike most Western animated fare for children, his films include some remarkably subtle scenes where characters can just act without talking more than a handful of lines, if at all. Used to great effect in ''Film/HowToTrainYourDragon''.

** Often manages to make its way into his works. [[Disney/LiloAndStitch Nani and David]], [[Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast the bimbettes]], [[TheCroods Eep and Guy]] [[AuthorAppeal are all examples]].

** Often manages to make its way into his works. [[LiloAndStitch Nani and David]], [[BeautyAndTheBeast the bimbettes]], [[TheCroods Eep and Guy]] [[AuthorAppeal are all examples]].

* ArtEvolution: Compare ''Main/LiloAndStitch'' to his more recent works, or even Kiskaloo. His proportions have become a lot more cartoony, and it's somehow become ''PuniPlush easier to count the straight lines in his work]].

** And cute and fluffy animals.

Chris Sanders is an animation director and voice actor (born on March 12, 1962), noted for his distinctive art style and managing to earn massive success with two of the biggest animation companies today: {{Disney}} and [[DreamworksAnimation [=DreamWorks=] Animation]]. He worked extensively with the former during TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation, and achieved success with directing partner Dean [=DeBlois=] on his brainchild, ''LiloAndStitch'', and has also been the voice of most every appearance of Stitch. In 2006 however, he left the company after being removed as the director of ''American Dog'' (which would later become ''{{Bolt}}'') and went to work with Disney's greatest rival-[=DreamWorks=].