Harley Jessup

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Art

Gender

Male

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Place of Birth

Corvallis, Oregon, USA

Harley Jessup

Biography

Harley Jessup (born 1954) is an American production designer and visual effects art director nominated for two Visual Effects Academy Awards, winning once. At Pixar Animation Studios, Jessup has been a production designer for Monsters, Inc.(with Bob Pauley), Ratatouille, Cars 2, Presto, The Good Dinosaur and Pixar's animated feature, Coco. Before coming to Pixar, Jessup was a production designer on Walt Disney Pictures' James and the Giant Peach. Jessup was a visual effects art director at Industrial Light & Magic from 1987 to 1994 and served as the ILM art department creative director from 1991 to 1994. His visual effects art direction cred...

Production

2001

Monsters, Inc.

as Production Design

1984

The Ewok Adventure

as Art Direction

2007

Ratatouille

as Production Design

2011

Cars 2

as Production Design

1983

Twice Upon a Time

as Character Designer

1991

Hook

as Visual Effects Art Director

1983

Twice Upon a Time

as Art Direction

2008

Presto

as Production Design

1996

James and the Giant Peach

as Production Design

1985

Return to Oz

as Storyboard

2009

Up

as Lighting Director

1999

Toy Story 2

as Visual Development

1980

A Christmas Without Snow

as Title Designer

2017

Coco

as Production Design

2025

Elio

as Production Design

1993

Fire in the Sky

as Visual Effects Art Director

2015

The Good Dinosaur

as Production Design

1986

Howard the Duck

as Assistant Production Design

1990

The Hunt for Red October

as Visual Effects Art Director

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