Pierre Coffin is a French

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 animator and director. He was trained at the Gobelins

Gobelins (school of image)

Gobelins L'Ecole de L'Image or Goblins School of the Image is a Parisian school, located near the Latin Quartier, dedicated to the visual arts. A consular school funded by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris, it provides training in various formats at a variety of different costs...

 in Paris and started to work at Amblimation

Amblimation

Amblimation was the animation production arm of Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and was active from 1989 until about 1997.The feature animation studio was located in London, England, UK...

, the 2D London based facility, where he worked on the Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg

Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...

-executive-produced We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story is a 1987 children's book drawn and written by Hudson Talbott, and published by Dragonfly Books. A Tyrannosaurus rex named Rex is the main character and narrator...

. He then started as a freelance animator in the French CGI studio Ex Machina where he worked as animator, animation supervisor, and eventually director. Afterwards, he started to collaborate with Passion Pictures Paris

Passion Pictures

Passion Pictures is a film and animation production company based in Rathbone Place, off Oxford Street in London's West End. They have been responsible for much of the production of the visual element of the animated rock band Gorillaz....

 and Mac Guff

Mac Guff

Mac Guff is a French visual effects company based in both Los Angeles, USA and Paris, France, where it is headquartered. Mac Guff specializes in the creation of computer-generated imagery for commercials, music videos and feature films. 270 graphic artists, vfx supervisors and producers, computer...

 where in 2010 he completed, with Chris Renaud

Chris Renaud (animator)

Chris Renaud is an American illustrator and film-maker. He was nominated for an Academy Award for the 2006 animated short No Time for Nuts, which featured the character Scrat from the computer animated Ice Age films. Most recently, he directed Despicable Me, starring the voice of Steve Carell,...

, the feature CGI animated movie Despicable Me

Despicable Me

Despicable Me is a 2010 American computer-animated 3D comedy film from Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment that was released on July 9, 2010 in the United States. The film features the voices of Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Will Arnett, Kristen Wiig, and...

for Universal. He also provided voices for a few of the minor characters. Pierre Coffin has created animations named Pings (animations of penguins being hurt or killed).

Coffin is currently developing Flanimals (an adaptation of the children's book series

Flanimals

Flanimals is a children's book series written by comedian Ricky Gervais. The book, illustrated by Rob Steen, depicts a list of seemingly useless or inadequate animals, and their behaviour.The cover Flanimal is the Grundit...

) and Bones.

Feature film

• Flanimals (TBA) : Director
• Despicable Me
  Despicable Me
  Despicable Me is a 2010 American computer-animated 3D comedy film from Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment that was released on July 9, 2010 in the United States. The film features the voices of Steve Carell, Jason Segel, Russell Brand, Julie Andrews, Will Arnett, Kristen Wiig, and...
  
  (2010) : Director / voice of Minions
• We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
  We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
  We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story is a 1987 children's book drawn and written by Hudson Talbott, and published by Dragonfly Books. A Tyrannosaurus rex named Rex is the main character and narrator...
  
  (1993) : Inbetween Artist

Short films

• Banana (2010) : Writer / Executive Producer / Voice Actor (short film)
• Home Makeover (2010) : Executive Producer / voice of Minions and Social Worker (short film)
• Orientation Day (2010): voice of Minions (short film)
• Gary's Day (2003) : Director (short film)

External links

• Coffin's Site