FrameThrower · Actors · Chris Sanders
Chris Sanders
2 films · 97 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2002–2013
Born 12 March 1962 · Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Christopher Michael Sanders is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. His credits include Lilo & Stitch (2002) and its live-action adaptation and How to Train Your Dragon (2010), both of which he co-wrote and directed with Dean DeBlois; The Croods (2013) with Kirk DeMicco; and The Wild Robot (2024), receiving nominations for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for all of them. In 2020, he made his live-action directorial debut with the adventure drama The Call of the Wild. He created the character Stitch in 1985, wrote the film's story, and voiced Stitch in almost all his media appearances.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 97 frames · top-billed in 1 · 2002–2013
- Annie Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 97 frames from the 2 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 2 films we hold, 54% of their frames are day, 65% natural — the look of the work Chris takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 97 frames from Chris Sanders's 2 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.