FrameThrower · Actors · Chris Miller
Chris Miller
3 films · 320 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2001–2014
Born 20 January 1968 · Washington, D.C., USA
Christopher Matthew Miller is an American animator, director, and voice actor employed by Paramount Animation and formerly DreamWorks Animation. He is best known for directing Shrek the Third and Puss in Boots (for which he received his first Academy Award nomination) and for voicing The Magic Mirror from the Shrek film series and Kowalski the Penguin in the Madagascar film series.
Miller was born on January 20, 1968, in Washington, D.C. He studied animation at the California Institute of Arts.
In an interview with Robert K. Elder for The Film That Changed My Life, Miller attributes his success in film to Sleeper.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 320 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Chris takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 57% natural — the look of the work Chris takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
Often with
Shared films in this library, not a full filmography.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 320 frames from Chris Miller's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.