Harley Jessup

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American production designer and visual effects art director, who won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects in 1988 for Innerspace (1987). He was nominated for the same Academy Award for his work on Hook (1991) and The Hunt for Red October (1990, with Steve Beck). In 1985, Jessup won an Emmy Award for Best Visual Effects for the 1984 series The Ewok Adventure, produced by Lucasfilm, Ltd. for ABC Television. Currently working at Pixar Animation Studios, Jessup has served as production designer for Monsters, Inc. (with Bob Pauley), Ratatouille, Cars 2, Presto, The Good Dinosaur and Pixar's latest animated feature, Coco. Before coming to Pixar, Jessup was 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. From 1991 to 1994 he served as ILM art department creative director. Jessup's other visual effects art direction credits include Ghostbusters II, Joe Versus the Volcano and Fire in the Sky. 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's Alice Up to? and Grandma Summer for Viking Children's Books and Welcome to Monstropolis for Disney/Egmont. Link to Wikipedia biography