Peter de Sève is an American 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 four '' Ice Age '' films ( including Scrat ) , and on the main animal character E.B. ( voiced by Russell Brand ) in the 2011 Easter themed comedy film '' Hop '' . Most recently , he designed the characters for '' Arthur Christmas '' , for which he was nominated for Annie Award . He received the National Cartoonists Society Magazine Illustration Award for 2000 . He is part of the Directors Collective Hornet Incorporated company
Annie Award
39th Annie Awards
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