---
name: "Colin Stimpson"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/colin-stimpson"
fi1m_id: "colin-stimpson"
imdb_id: "nm0830384"
tmdb_id: 986240
wikidata_id: "Q28912524"
roles: ["Character designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 69
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-05T15:15:08.164495+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Colin Stimpson

## Identity

Colin Stimpson

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/colin-stimpson
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** colin-stimpson
- **IMDb ID:** nm0830384
- **TMDB ID:** 986240
- **Wikidata ID:** Q28912524
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28912524, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0830384/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/986240

Character designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Character designer
- **Active:** 2000–2019
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 80 (1), 2010s 65 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 69 to 65 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Animation 4, Comedy 4, Family 4, Adventure 2, Fantasy 2, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,123m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28912524, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0830384/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/986240

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Secret Life of Pets 2*](https://film.one/film/the-secret-life-of-pets-2.md) (62)

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## Biography

Colin Stimpson is a British production designer and art director in the animation industry. He has worked for over twenty-five years at studios including Walt Disney Feature Animation and Illumination Entertainment.

His credits include art direction on *The Emperor's New Groove* (2000) and *The Secret Life of Pets* (2016), and production design on *Kronk's New Groove* (2005), *The Secret Life of Pets 2* (2019) and *Migration* (2023). He has also contributed as a background designer and character designer on films such as *Hercules* (1997) and *The Lorax* (2012).

Stimpson has received Annie Award nominations for production design on *The Emperor's New Groove* and character design on *The Lorax*, and an Art Directors Guild nomination for *The Grinch* (2018).

*Sources: imdb.com, colinstimpson.com, m.the-numbers.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *The Secret Life of Pets 2* (2019), Fi1m 62, Character Designer, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/the-secret-life-of-pets-2.md)
- *The Grinch* (2018), Fi1m 62, Character Designer, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/the-grinch.md)
- *Despicable Me 2* (2013), Fi1m 71, Color Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/despicable-me-2.md)
- *The Emperor's New Groove* (2000), Fi1m 80, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/the-emperors-new-groove.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Migration* (2023), Production Design
- *The Secret Life of Pets 2* (2019), Production Design, Character Designer — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/the-secret-life-of-pets-2.md)
- *The Grinch* (2018), as Art Direction · Character Designer — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/the-grinch.md)
- *The Secret Life of Pets* (2016), as Art Direction
- *Despicable Me 2* (2013), Color Designer — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/despicable-me-2.md)
- *The Lorax* (2012), Character Designer
- *Kronk's New Groove* (2005), Production Design
- *The Emperor's New Groove* (2000), as Art Direction — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-emperors-new-groove.md)
- *Balto* (1995), Background Designer
- *An American Tail: Fievel Goes West* (1991), Background Designer

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