Pierre Coffin
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Coffin at the 2015 Annecy International Animated Film Festival
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| Born | Pierre-Louis Padang Coffin 16 March 1967 [1] France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation | Animator, film director, voice actor |
| Notable work | Despicable Me Despicable Me 2 Minions |
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Pierre-Louis Padang Coffin (born 16 March 1967) is a French animator, film director, and voice actor. He is best known for co-directing, with Chris Renaud, the films of the Despicable Me franchise, and as the voice of the Minions.
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Life and career
Coffin was born in France, to Yves Coffin, a French diplomat, and Nh. Dini (Nurhayati Srihardini Siti Nukatin), an Indonesian writer. He was trained at the Gobelins animations 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 animator and eventually animation supervisor. Pierre Coffin's directorial career began with a short named Pings in 1997.[2] 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 2 (2013), with Renaud, and the Despicable Me spin-off, Minions (2015), with Kyle Balda.[3]
Filmography
Feature film
- Flanimals (TBA): Director[4]
- Minions (2015): Director, voice of Minions[3][5]
- Despicable Me 2 (2013): Director, voice of Minions
- Despicable Me (2010): Director, voice of Minions
- We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993): Inbetween Artist
- Despicable Me 3 (2017): Director, voice of Minions
Short films
- Brad & Gary (2011): Director, voice of Brad[6][7]
- Banana (2010): Writer, Executive producer, voice actor
- Home Makeover (2010): Executive producer, voice of Minions and Social Worker
- Orientation Day (2010): Voice of Minions
- Gary's Day (2003): Director
- Pings: Realization/Animation for ExMachina
TV series
- Pat & Stan (2003–2009) : Creator, Episode Director
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