Robert Desue

About Robert Desue

Production Designer and Art Director in the stop motion animation and live action film industry. Skilled in Visual Development, world building, team building, Photography, Film, Animation, Creative Direction and team management. Official Bio:Robert DeSue has a feature film resumé spanning over 25 years. His stop-motion career began in 1998 at LAIKA\'s predecessor, Will Vinton Studios where he contributed to both Emmy award winning stop motion television series, The P.J.\'s and Gary and Mike. Currently he serves as Creative Director and Production Designer at ShadowMachine.In 2022, Rob wrapped duties as Art Director on the Academy Award®, BAFTA and Golden Globe award winning Guillermo del Toro\'s Pinocchio for Netflix. Previously, Rob has played an instrumental part in all five of LAIKA\'s award-winning stop motion, feature films, beginning with Academy Award® nominated Coraline (2009), the BAFTA award winning Kubo and the Two Strings and more recently as Art Director on the 2019 Golden Globe Award® winning Missing Link. Rob shares an Art Director\'s Guild® award for Excellence in Production Design for an Animated Film with Curt Enderle and Guy Davis for GDT\'s Pinocchio. In addition he has two nominations for Visual Effects Society awards in the category of Outstanding Created Environment for an Animated Feature. In 2025 Rob accepted an invitation to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, in their Animation branch.

Experience

1. Production Designer

   Shadowmachine

   Jan 2023 — Present

Education

• Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava

  Fine and Studio Arts

  1994 — 1994

• Slippery Rock University

  Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Fine and Studio Arts

  1992 — 1995