History Creator / ChrisSanders

** He created, written, and directed ''Lilo & Stitch'', but the franchise that his 2002 film spawned had no creative input from him aside from his voice acting as Stitch, [[OneShotCharacter 627, and Leroy]], and the franchise itself moved on without him after he left Disney. He even had to mention that he did not create Tantalog (the experiments' native language); it was the guys behind ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series'' who turned Stitch's alien gibberish into the Tantalog language we know today, and that Stitch's infamous "[[PardonMyKlingon Meega, nala kweesta!]]" was really meant to be [[{{Applicability}} whatever offensive phrase the viewer wants it to be]], ''not'' a vulgar way of saying, "I want to destroy." Creator/JessWinfield of the TV shows is the closest person the franchise has to a curator.

Christopher Michael Sanders (born March 12, 1962) is an American film 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 UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation, and achieved success with directing partner Creator/DeanDeBlois on his brainchild, ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', and has also been [[DescendedCreator the voice of]] [[Franchise/LiloAndStitch every appearance of Stitch]] (except in [[Anime/{{Stitch}} East]] [[Animation/StitchAndAi Asia]]). In 2006, however, he left the company after being removed as the director of ''American Dog'' (which would later become ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'') and went to work with Disney's greatest rival--[=DreamWorks=]--teaming up once again with [=DeBlois=] to work on ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', his biggest financial and critical success to date. After writing and directing ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'' with Kirk [=DeMicco=] and later having its sequel's production cancelled (only to be later revived without either man as directors), Sanders went on to work on his first solo and [[RogerRabbitEffect live-action/CGI-animated]] project, an adaptation of ''Film/{{The Call of the Wild|2020}}'', which is produced by Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios (the first film under that banner after Disney dropped "Fox" from "20th Century Fox") and 3 Arts Entertainment. Due to Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox on March 20, 2019, this film also marked Sanders's return to Disney (outside of voice acting as Stitch) after having left the company 13 years prior.[[note]]Although, even with Creator/JohnLasseter--the man who took Sanders off ''American Dog'' in the first place, which in turn led to Sanders' falling out with Disney--now out of Disney altogether, and the expected live-action remake of ''Lilo & Stitch'', don't expect Sanders to actually ''stay'' with Disney again. Sanders always had issues with Disney and the way it manages things going all the way back to the 80s; in some ways, ''Lilo & Stitch'' wouldn't have been made if Disney did not let Sanders make his film with such little executive oversight.[[/note]]

** He created, written, and directed ''Lilo & Stitch'', but the franchise that his 2002 film spawned had no creative input from him aside from his voice acting as Stitch, [[OneShotCharacter 627, and Leroy]], and the franchise itself moved on without him after he left Disney. He even had to mention that he did not create Tantalog (the experiments' native language); it was the guys behind ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series'' who turned Stitch's alien gibberish into the Tantalog language we know today, and that Stitch's infamous "[[PardonMyKlingon Meega, nala kweesta!]]" was really meant to be [[{{Applicability}} whatever offensive meaning the viewer wants it to be]], ''not'' a vulgar way of saying, "I want to destroy." Creator/JessWinfield of the TV shows is the closest person the franchise has to a curator.

You can visit his blog [[http://www.chrissandersart.com/ here,]] his respective former and current Website/{{Twitter}} accounts [[https://twitter.com/Chris_Sanders_ here]] and [[https://twitter.com/chrissandersart here,]] Website/DeviantArt account [[https://www.deviantart.com/alohalilo here,]] Website/{{Facebook}} account [[https://www.facebook.com/chrissandersart here,]] and his [=TikTok=] account [[https://www.tiktok.com/@chrissandersart here.]] Or just go [[https://linktr.ee/chrissandersart here]] to see his all his personal links.

** He created, written, and directed ''Lilo & Stitch'', but the franchise that his 2002 film spawned had no creative input from him aside from his voice acting as Stitch, [[OneShotCharacter 627, and Leroy]], and the franchise itself moved on without him after he left Disney. Creator/JessWinfield of the TV shows is the closest person the franchise has to a curator.

You can visit his blog [[http://www.chrissandersart.com/ here,]] his respective former and current Website/{{Twitter}} accounts [[https://twitter.com/Chris_Sanders_ here]] and [[https://twitter.com/chrissandersart here,]] Website/DeviantArt account [[https://www.deviantart.com/alohalilo here,]] and Website/{{Facebook}} account [[https://www.facebook.com/chrissandersart here.]] Or just go [[https://linktr.ee/chrissandersart here]] to see his all his personal links.

* GodNeverSaidThat: It is (or was as the years went on) widely believed in the Western ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' fandom that Sanders said in an interview that the ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'' anime, which he did not participate in, is non-canonical to the franchise. No evidence of this supposed interview has ever appeared; it's just something that the Western fanbase (who [[AmericansHateTingle mostly hate the anime]]) falsely spread. In fact, there's nothing on the web that shows that Sanders has ever said ''anything'' about the East Asian ''Stitch'' shows (this anime and ''Animation/StitchAndAi''), let alone even being aware of them. Not only that, Sanders really only uses his social media accounts for self-promotional purposes, so don't even expect to hear from him about his own opinion on them anytime soon.

* HartmanHips: A lot of his drawings have women with curvy, sexy legs. Their upper bodies are more akin to stick bugs. Also tend to dip into [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure bustiness being thrown into the mix]].
* MistakenForGay: People in the animation industry prior to ''Lilo & Stitch'' knew that either Sanders or his screenwriting and directing partner Dean [=DeBlois=] (but not both men) was gay, but assumed it was the heterosexual (and married to a woman) Sanders who was the gay one because of Sanders's quirkiness compared to the openly homosexual [=DeBlois=]'s calmer demeanor.

** He posts many of these things on his blog. For example, a cut scene from ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'', 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 ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' 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.
** There's also ''American Dog'' and ''The Croods 2'', both of which had supposedly {{Troubled Production}}s; the former film he got removed as director after he refused to listen to Creator/JohnLasseter's suggestions (and thus it got retooled as ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}''), which prompted him to leave Disney, and the latter film got cancelled after several delays, although it recently got back in production as ''The Croods: A New Age'' for release in 2020... without Sanders involved as director anymore.

* ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'' (2008--2015): Credited for creating the ''Lilo & Stitch'' characters; otherwise, he has no involvement with this series whatsoever.
* ''Animation/StitchAndAi'' (2017): Credited for creating the ''Lilo & Stitch'' characters; same ordeal as the ''Stitch!'' anime above.

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Stitch is but one example. His favorite things to draw are; cartoons, voluptuous women, and incredibly cute creatures, really defining the term "pwescious"

** There's also ''American Dog'' and ''The Croods 2'', both of which had supposedly {{Troubled Production}}s; the former film he got removed as director after he refused to listen to [[Creator/PixarRegulars John Lasseter]]'s suggestions (and thus it got retooled as ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}''), which prompted him to leave Disney, and the latter film got cancelled after several delays, although it recently got back in production as ''The Croods: A New Age'' for release in 2020... without Sanders involved as director anymore.

* BleachedUnderpants: You'd be surprised; then again, some of his characters, [[ShesGotLegs female]] or [[WalkingShirtlessScene male]] are all pretty good examples of [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar being fanservicey in kids' movies]].

* MistakenForGay: People in the animation industry prior to ''Lilo & Stitch'' knew that either Sanders or his partner Dean [=DeBlois=] (but not both men) was gay, but assumed it was the heterosexual (and married to a woman) Sanders who was the gay one because of Sanders's quirkiness compared to the openly homosexual [=DeBlois=]'s calmer demeanor.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheCroodsANewAge'' (2020): Voice of Belt[[note]]Sanders was also going to direct the film prior to its initial cancellation.[[/note]]

* PigeonHoledVoiceActor: He usually plays a cute, fuzzy animal.

!! Tropes in his work:

** There's also ''American Dog'' and ''The Croods 2'', both of which had supposedly {{Troubled Production}}s; the former film he got removed as director after he refused to listen to [[Creator/PixarRegulars John Lasseter]]'s suggestions (and thus it got retooled as ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}''), which prompted him to leave Disney, and the latter film got cancelled after several delays, although it recently got back in production for release in 2020... without Sanders involved as director anymore.

* ''VideoGame/DisneyInfinity: 2.0'' (2014; dialogue reused in 2015's ''3.0'')

Christopher Michael Sanders (born March 12, 1962) is a film 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 UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation, and achieved success with directing partner Creator/DeanDeBlois on his brainchild, ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', and has also been [[DescendedCreator the voice of]] [[Franchise/LiloAndStitch every appearance of Stitch]] (except in [[Anime/{{Stitch}} East]] [[Animation/StitchAndAi Asia]]). In 2006, however, he left the company after being removed as the director of ''American Dog'' (which would later become ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'') and went to work with Disney's greatest rival--[=DreamWorks=]--teaming up once again with [=DeBlois=] to work on ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', his biggest financial and critical success to date. After writing and directing ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'' with Kirk [=DeMicco=] and later having its sequel's production cancelled (only to be later revived without either man as directors), Sanders went on to work on his first solo and [[RogerRabbitEffect live-action/CGI-animated]] project, an adaptation of ''Film/{{The Call of the Wild|2020}}'', which is produced by Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios (the first film under that banner after Disney dropped "Fox" from "20th Century Fox") and 3 Arts Entertainment. Due to Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox on March 20, 2019, this film also marked Sanders's return to Disney (outside of voice acting as Stitch) after having left the company 13 years prior.[[note]]Although, even with Creator/JohnLasseter--the man who took Sanders off ''American Dog'' in the first place, which in turn led to Sanders' falling out with Disney--now out of Disney altogether, and the expected live-action remake of ''Lilo & Stitch'', don't expect Sanders to actually ''stay'' with Disney again. Sanders always had issues with Disney and the way it manages things going all the way back to the 80s; in some ways, ''Lilo & Stitch'' wouldn't have been made if Disney did not let Sanders make his film with such little executive oversight.[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/DisneyInfinity: Marvel Super Heroes'' (a.k.a. ''Disney Infinity: 2.0 Edition'') (2014; dialogue reused in 2015's ''3.0'')

Christopher Michael Sanders (born March 12, 1962 in Colorado Springs, Colorado) is a film 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 UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation, and achieved success with directing partner Creator/DeanDeBlois on his brainchild, ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', and has also been [[DescendedCreator the voice of]] [[Franchise/LiloAndStitch every appearance of Stitch]] (except in [[Anime/{{Stitch}} East]] [[Animation/StitchAndAi Asia]]). In 2006, however, he left the company after being removed as the director of ''American Dog'' (which would later become ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'') and went to work with Disney's greatest rival--[=DreamWorks=]--teaming up once again with [=DeBlois=] to work on ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', his biggest financial and critical success to date. After writing and directing ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'' with Kirk [=DeMicco=] and later having its sequel's production cancelled (only to be later revived without either man as directors), Sanders went on to work on his first solo and [[RogerRabbitEffect live-action/CGI-animated]] project, an adaptation of ''Film/{{The Call of the Wild|2020}}'', which is produced by Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios (the first film under that banner after Disney dropped "Fox" from "20th Century Fox") and 3 Arts Entertainment. Due to Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox on March 20, 2019, this film also marked Sanders's return to Disney (outside of voice acting as Stitch) after having left the company 13 years prior.[[note]]Although, even with Creator/JohnLasseter--the man who took Sanders off ''American Dog'' in the first place, which in turn led to Sanders' falling out with Disney--now out of Disney altogether, and the expected live-action remake of ''Lilo & Stitch'', don't expect Sanders to actually ''stay'' with Disney again. Sanders always had issues with Disney and the way it manages things going all the way back to the 80s; in some ways, ''Lilo & Stitch'' wouldn't have been made if Disney did not let Sanders make his film with such little executive oversight.[[/note]]

Christopher Michael Sanders (born March 12, 1962) is a film 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 UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation, and achieved success with directing partner Creator/DeanDeBlois on his brainchild, ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', and has also been [[DescendedCreator the voice of]] [[Franchise/LiloAndStitch every appearance of Stitch]] (except in [[Anime/{{Stitch}} East]] [[Animation/StitchAndAi Asia]]). In 2006, however, he left the company after being removed as the director of ''American Dog'' (which would later become ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'') and went to work with Disney's greatest rival--[=DreamWorks=]--teaming up once again with [=DeBlois=] to work on ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', his biggest financial and critical success to date. After writing and directing ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'' with Kirk [=DeMicco=] and later having its sequel's production cancelled (only to be later revived without either man as directors), Sanders went on to work on his first solo and [[RogerRabbitEffect live-action/CGI-animated]] project, an adaptation of ''Film/{{The Call of the Wild|2020}}'', which is produced by Creator/TwentiethCenturyStudios (the first film under that banner after Disney dropped "Fox" from "20th Century Fox") and 3 Arts Entertainment. Due to Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox on March 20, 2019, this film also marked Sanders's return to Disney (outside of voice acting as Stitch) after having left the company 13 years prior.[[note]]Although, even with Creator/JohnLasseter--the man who took Sanders off ''American Dog'' in the first place, which in turn led to Sanders' falling out with Disney--now out of Disney altogether, and the expected live-action remake of ''Lilo & Stitch'', don't expect Sanders to actually ''stay'' with Disney again. Sanders always had issues with Disney and the way it manages things going all the way back to the 80s; in some ways, ''Lilo & Stitch'' wouldn't have been made if Disney did not let Sanders make his film with such little executive oversight.[[/note]]

You can visit his blog [[http://www.chrissandersart.com/ here,]] his respective former and current Website/{{Twitter}} accounts [[https://twitter.com/Chris_Sanders_ here]] and [[https://twitter.com/chrissandersart here,]] and Website/DeviantArt account [[https://www.deviantart.com/alohalilo here.]] Or just go [[https://linktr.ee/chrissandersart here]] to see his all his personal links.

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* GodNeverSaidThat: It is widely believed in the Western ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'' fandom that Sanders said in an interview that the ''Anime/{{Stitch}}'' anime, which he did not participate in, is non-canonical to the franchise. No evidence of this supposed interview has ever appeared; it's just something that the Western fanbase (who [[AmericansHateTingle mostly hate the anime]]) falsely spread. In fact, there's nothing on the web that shows that Sanders has ever said ''anything'' about the East Asian ''Stitch'' shows (this anime and ''Animation/StitchAndAi''), let alone even being aware of them. Not only that, Sanders really only uses his social media accounts for self-promotional purposes, so don't even expect to hear from him about his own opinion on them anytime soon.

** He created, written, and directed ''Lilo & Stitch'', but the franchise that his 2002 film spawned had no creative input from him aside from his voice acting as Stitch, [[OneShotCharacter 627, and Leroy]], and the franchise itself moved on without him after he left Disney. Creator/JessWinfield of the TV shows is the closest thing the franchise has to a curator.

Christopher Michael Sanders (born March 12, 1962) is a film 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 UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation, and achieved success with directing partner Creator/DeanDeBlois on his brainchild, ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', and has also been [[DescendedCreator the voice of]] [[Franchise/LiloAndStitch every appearance of Stitch]] (except in [[Anime/{{Stitch}} East]] [[Animation/StitchAndAi Asia]]). In 2006, however, he left the company after being removed as the director of ''American Dog'' (which would later become ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'') and went to work with Disney's greatest rival--[=DreamWorks=]--teaming up once again with [=DeBlois=] to work on ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', his biggest financial and critical success to date. After writing and directing ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'' with Kirk [=DeMicco=] and later having its sequel's production cancelled (only to be later revived without either man as directors), Sanders went on to work on his first solo and [[RogerRabbitEffect live-action/CGI-animated]] project, an adaptation of ''Film/{{The Call of the Wild|2020}}'', which is produced by [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox 20th Century Studios]] (the first film under that banner after Disney dropped "Fox" from 20th Century Fox) and 3 Arts Entertainment. Due to Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox on March 20, 2019, this film also marked Sanders's return to Disney (outside of voice acting as Stitch) after having left the company 13 years prior.[[note]]Although, even with Creator/JohnLasseter--the man who took Sanders off ''American Dog'' in the first place, which in turn led to Sanders' falling out with Disney--now out of Disney altogether, and the expected live-action remake of ''Lilo & Stitch'', don't expect Sanders to actually ''stay'' with Disney again. Sanders always had issues with Disney and the way it manages things going all the way back to the 80s; in some ways, ''Lilo & Stitch'' wouldn't have been made if Disney did not let Sanders make his film with such little executive oversight.[[/note]]

Christopher Michael Sanders (born March 12, 1962) is a film 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 UsefulNotes/TheRenaissanceAgeOfAnimation, and achieved success with directing partner Creator/DeanDeBlois on his brainchild, ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', and has also been [[DescendedCreator the voice of]] [[Franchise/LiloAndStitch every appearance of Stitch]] (except in [[Anime/{{Stitch}} East]] [[Animation/StitchAndAi Asia]]). In 2006, however, he left the company after being removed as the director of ''American Dog'' (which would later become ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'') and went to work with Disney's greatest rival--[=DreamWorks=]--teaming up once again with [=DeBlois=] to work on ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'', his biggest financial and critical success to date. After writing and directing ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'' with Kirk [=DeMicco=] and later having its sequel's production cancelled (only to be later revived without either man as directors), Sanders went on to work on his first solo and [[RogerRabbitEffect live-action/CGI-animated]] project, an adaptation of ''Film/{{The Call of the Wild|2020}}'', which is produced by [[Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox 20th Century Studios]] (the first film under that banner after Disney dropped "Fox" from 20th Century Fox) and 3 Arts Entertainment. Due to Disney's acquisition of 21st Century Fox on March 20, 2019, this film will also mark Sanders's return to Disney (outside of voice acting as Stitch) after having left the company 13 years prior.[[note]]Although, even with Creator/JohnLasseter--the man who took Sanders off ''American Dog'' in the first place, which in turn led to Sanders' falling out with Disney--now out of Disney altogether, don't expect Sanders to actually ''stay'' with Disney again. Sanders always had issues with Disney and the way it manages things going all the way back to the 80s; in some ways, ''Lilo & Stitch'' wouldn't have been made if Disney did not let Sanders make his film with such little executive oversight.[[/note]]

* ''Lilo & Stitch'' (live-action remake; TBA): Voice of Stitch