Peter de Sève

{{short description|American artist}}

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| name = Peter de Sève

| image = Peter de Seve.jpg

| caption = Peter de Sève at San Diego Comic Con 2009

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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1958}}{{cite web|title=Peter deSeve - 2006|url=http://art.uga.edu/index.php?pt=1&id=299|work=Lamar Dodd School of Art|publisher=The University of Georgia|access-date=February 12, 2012}}

| birth_place = New York City, U.S.

| alma_mater = Parsons The New School for Design

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| occupation = {{hlist|Illustrator|character designer}}

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| spouse = Randall{{cite web|last=de Sève|first=Peter|title=Biography|url=http://www.peterdeseve.com/bio.php|work=Peter de Sève|access-date=February 4, 2012}}

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| website = {{URL|peterdeseve.com}}

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Peter de Sève is an American{{Cite web |title=Peter de Sève - Illustration History |url=https://www.illustrationhistory.org/artists/peter-de-seve |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=www.illustrationhistory.org}} artist who has worked in the illustration and animation fields. He has drawn many covers for the magazine The New Yorker. As a character designer, he worked on the characters of A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo, Robots, the Ice Age franchise, and on the main animal character E.B. (voiced by Russell Brand) in the 2011 Easter-themed comedy film Hop.{{cite news|last=Lesnick|first=Silas|title=Hop's Rabbit Designed by Peter DeSéve|url=http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=67354|access-date=February 4, 2012|newspaper=ComingSoon.net|date=June 26, 2010|archive-date=June 30, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100630075454/http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=67354|url-status=dead}} Most recently, he designed the characters for Arthur Christmas,{{cite news|last=de Sève|first=Peter|title=Arthur Christmas|url=http://peterdeseve.blogspot.com/2011/11/arthur-christmas.html|access-date=February 4, 2012|newspaper=A SKETCHY PAST, THE ART OF PETER DE SÈVE|date=November 10, 2011}} for which he was nominated for Annie Award.{{cite news|last=DeMott|first=Rick|title=39th Annie Award Nominations Announced|url=http://www.awn.com/news/people/39th-annie-award-nominations-announced/page/3%2C1|access-date=February 4, 2012|newspaper=Animation World Network|date=December 5, 2011}} He received the National Cartoonists Society Magazine Illustration Award for 2000.{{cite web|title=NCS Awards - Magazine Feature & Magazine Illustration|url=http://www.reuben.org/ncs/archive/divisions/magazine.asp|publisher=National Cartoonists Society|access-date=April 3, 2012}} He is also a recipient of the Hamilton King Award from the Society of Illustrators, a Clio Award for a Nike television commercial, and a Visual Effects Society Award nomination for outstanding animated character design for Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Peter was honored with an Emmy Award for Outstanding Character design for his work on Sesame Street's Abby Cadabby's Flying Fairy School.{{Cite web |title=Peter de Sève |url=http://www.peterdeseve.com/bio.php |access-date=2022-03-24 |website=www.peterdeseve.com}} He is part of the Directors Collective Hornet Incorporated company.{{cite web|title=PETER DE SEVE|url=http://www.hornetinc.com/site/director.php?id_director=11|publisher=Hornet|access-date=April 3, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127160701/http://hornetinc.com/site/director.php?id_director=11|archive-date=January 27, 2012}}