Visual Effects
John Kahrs
September 18, 1967Cornwall, New York, USA
John Kahrs (born September 18, 1967) is an American actor, animator and film director. Kahrs attended NSCAD University, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1990. He began his career at Blue Sky Studios in New York, where he worked as an animator between 1990 and 1997. 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, he moved over to Disney, where he animated on Bolt, Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen, and was an animation supervisor on Tangled. In 2013, he won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for his 2012 short film, Paperman.
