Who was the production designer for Pixar’s Coco?

Harley Jessup was the production designer for Pixar’s Coco.

The production designer helped shape the film’s visual world, including Santa Cecilia, the Rivera family home, the marigold bridge, and the expansive Land of the Dead. Coco contrasts the warm, recognizable textures of a Mexican town with a fantastical afterlife filled with layered architecture and glowing color.

Harley Jessup is a Pixar production designer and visual artist whose credits include other major animated features. Production design is different from directing or character animation: it establishes the overall environments, visual organization, and design language of a film.

Coco’s visual research drew on Mexican architecture, crafts, celebrations, and art. The result supports the story’s themes while making the living world and the Land of the Dead visually distinct.