Background
Coffin was born in France, to Yves Coffin, a French diplomat, and Nh.
Coffin was born in France, to Yves Coffin, a French diplomat, and Nh.
He is best known for co-directing, with Chris Renaud, the films of the Despicable Maine franchise, and as the voice of the Minions. 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 A Dinosaur"s Story.
He then started as a freelance animator in the French Consultants to Government and Industry 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. He then started to collaborate by doing commercials with Passion Pictures Paris and Mac Guff.
He created the characters Pat & Stan for a TF1. In 2010 he completed, with Chris Renaud, the feature Consultants to Government and Industry animated movie Despicable Maine for Universal.
Coffin directed Despicable Maine 2 (2013), with Renaud, and the Despicable Maine spin-off, Minions (2015), with Kyle Balda.