Harley Jessup
- Known for
- Art
- Born
- February 12, 1954
- Birthplace
- Corvallis, Oregon, USA
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.
Filmography
Shrinkage: The Making of Innerspace 2026
as Self
Elio 2025
Production Design
Il était une fois Disney & la France 2023
as Self
Coco 2017
Production Design
The Good Dinosaur 2015
Production Design
Cars 2 2011
Production Design
Up 2009
Lighting Director
Presto 2008
Production Design
Ratatouille 2007
Production Design
Monsters, Inc. 2001
Production Design
Toy Story 2 1999
Visual Development
James and the Giant Peach 1996
Production Design
Fire in the Sky 1993
Visual Effects Art Director
Hook 1991
Visual Effects Art Director
The Hunt for Red October 1990
Visual Effects Art Director
Ghostbusters II 1989
Visual Effects Art Director
Innerspace 1987
Visual Effects Art Director
Howard the Duck 1986
Assistant Production Design
Return to Oz 1985
Storyboard
The Ewok Adventure 1984
Art Direction
Twice Upon a Time 1983
Character Designer, Art Direction
A Christmas Without Snow 1980
Title Designer
Credits from TMDB.