Pierre-Louis Padang Coffin (born 15 March 1967) is a French voice actor, animator, film director best known for co-directing, with Chris Renaud, the films in the Despicable Me franchise and as the voice of the Minions, which won him the Kids Family Award at the 10th Seiyu Awards.
Video Pierre Coffin
Life and career
Coffin was born in France, to Yves Coffin, a French diplomat, and Nh. Dini (Nurhayati Srihardini Siti Nukatin), an Indonesian writer and feminist. He was trained at the Gobelins animation school in Paris and started to work at Amblimation, the 2D London-based facility, where he worked on the Steven Spielberg-executive-produced We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story. He then started as a freelance animator in the French CGI studio Ex Machina where he worked as an animator and eventually animation supervisor. Pierre Coffin's directorial career began with a short named Pings in 1997. He then started to collaborate by doing commercials with Passion Pictures Paris and Mac Guff. He created the characters Pat & Stan for a TF1 TV series. In 2010 he completed, with Chris Renaud, the feature CGI animated movie Despicable Me for Universal.
Coffin directed Despicable Me (2010) and Despicable Me 2 (2013), with Renaud, and the Despicable Me spin-off, Minions (2015) and Despicable Me 3 (2017), with Kyle Balda.
Maps Pierre Coffin
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
- Pierre Coffin on IMDb
Source of the article : Wikipedia
0 Comments