Shawn P. Krause

Early life and education Shawn Krause was born in Mehlville, St. Louis County, Missouri, as a middle and a second child, as well the second son of Ronald "Ron" Krause and Jacqueline Laverne "Jackie" Krause (née Kissel). Ron was a previous and the second-generation manager of Krause Key & Lock, a prominent key store and locksmith service in St. Louis, that has been established in 1947 by Shawn's paternal grandfather as well the store’s first-generation manager, William "Bill" Krause. He had an older brother, Eric Krause, who is a current and the third-generation manager of the said store, and a younger sister, Candace "Candy" Gehricke (née Krause), who worked as an art teacher in St. Charles.

He became interested in animation since his mother took him to watched the re-release of a Disney animated feature, Pinocchio and he also spent his childhood making flip books especially during his elementary school days in the fifth-grade. He also used to watch classic movies on TV, as well compilations of animated shorts by Warner Bros. Cartoons, such as Looney Tunes with his father who was also being a fan of shorts featuring Bugs Bunny via The Bugs Bunny Show.

As a native of Mehlville and also grew up there, he attended the schools of Mehlville School District, such as Margaret Buerkle Middle School and Mehlville High School. After he graduated from the said high school in 1987, he attended the University of Missouri and graduated with Bachelor's Degree of Fine Art with a Minor in Art History and Archaeology in 1992. Some of his classmates were later become fellow animators who also worked at Pixar with him including Ricky Nierva, Sanjay Patel, Mark Walsh, Stephen Gregory, Tasha Wedeen, and Bobby Podesta, also a non-Pixar-related professional character designer, Joe Moshier.

After worked at commercials, he alongside fellow animator Bob Peterson who also had previously storyboarded Chips Ahoy! commercials with him got an offer from the studio itself in which both eventually started worked on the studio's first feature, Toy Story, in which eventually became Shawn's first credited work at the studio as an animator. In 2016, he became a member of Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. In Cars 2, his own car version as well his in-universe counterpart existed in purpose to honored his role as one of the film’s supervising animators with the name Shawn Krash, who briefly appeared as one of the film’s background characters, and his name confirmed on his own die-cast licensed by Mattel, in which all the names of die-cast toys of some of background characters of its franchise were decided by the franchise's creative director, Jay Ward. In August 2020, he left Pixar to Spire Animation Studios where he once hold the title of Creative Director of Animation and Story, and eventually returned to his previous workplace in May 2023. Aside from his career at Pixar, he also experienced volunteership in Verde Valley School, where he has been a guest instructor since June 2013, in which he led a week-long filmmaking class for select student’s end-of-year called "Project Period" and became a member of Board of Trustees in January 2017.

As of today, he currently resided in San Francisco Bay Area, California. (uncredited) Let Me In (brand : Twizzlers) (1996) : co-director

Video games Disney’s Animated Storybook (1994) : The Lion King (Windows, Macintosh) (1994) : animator, animation clean-up Disney’s Activity Center (1994) : Aladdin (Windows, Macintosh) (1994) : animation clean-up Cars Race-O-Rama (PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable) (2009) : special thanks Cars 2: The Video Game (PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows, Wii, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS, PlayStation Portable, OS X, iOS) (2011) : supervising animator

Theme parks It's Tough to Be a Bug! (Disney's Animal Kingdom, Disney California Adventure) (1998-2025) : directing animator