Person
Harley Jessup
Art · Corvallis, Oregon, USA
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 credits include Innerspace(for which he won an Academy Award), Hook (nominated for an Academy Award), The Hunt for Red October (with Steve Beck), Ghostbusters II, Joe Versus the Volcano, and Fire in the Sky. In 1985, Jessup won an Emmy Award for best visual effects for The Ewok Adventure, produced by Lucasfilm, Ltd. for ABC Television. Harley Jessup began his career at Korty Films, designing animated short films for Sesame Street, including The Adventures of Thelma Thumb. He served as art director on John Korty's animated feature Twice Upon a Time. Jessup has written and illustrated three children's books, What Alice Up to? and Grandma Summer for Viking Children's Books and Welcome to Monstropolis for Disney/Egmont. He studied graphic design at Oregon State University (BFA) and Stanford University (MFA). Description above from the Wikipedia article Harley Jessup, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Toy Story 2
Visual Development
Monsters, Inc.
Production Design
Coco
Production Design
Ratatouille
Production Design
Cars 2
Production Design
Up
Lighting Director
The Good Dinosaur
Production Design
Elio
Production Design
Hook
Visual Effects Art Director
Ghostbusters II
Visual Effects Art Director
Filmography
- 2026Shrinkage: The Making of InnerspaceSelf
- 2025ElioProduction Design
- 2023Il était une fois Disney & la FranceSelf
- 2017CocoProduction Design
- 2015The Good DinosaurProduction Design
- 2011Cars 2Production Design
- 2009UpLighting Director
- 2008PrestoProduction Design
- 2007RatatouilleProduction Design
- 2001Monsters, Inc.Production Design
- 1999Toy Story 2Visual Development
- 1996James and the Giant PeachProduction Design
- 1993Fire in the SkyVisual Effects Art Director
- 1991HookVisual Effects Art Director
- 1990The Hunt for Red OctoberVisual Effects Art Director
- 1989Ghostbusters IIVisual Effects Art Director
- 1987InnerspaceVisual Effects Art Director
- 1986Howard the DuckAssistant Production Design
- 1985Return to OzStoryboard
- 1984The Ewok AdventureArt Direction
- 1983Twice Upon a TimeCharacter Designer
- 1980A Christmas Without SnowTitle Designer
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