Chan is best known for his work in several LucasArts adventure games, including Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, and Grim Fandango.
While in grade school, Peter Chan was inspired by a Star Wars magazine to pursue a career in concept art for films.
[2] Chan's first major role was with Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, where he developed the art assets based on the pre-defined character designs.
[2] This was Chan's first opportunity to develop assets from scratch, and worked with Ahern to craft Looney Tunes-inspired characters and backgrounds, emulating those of Chuck Jones and Maurice Noble.
[9] Chan's first feature film as a concept artist was Antz, and worked as visual concept and storyboard artists for several other films, including Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Rio, and Monsters University.