---
name: "Eric Guillon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/eric-guillon"
fi1m_id: "eric-guillon"
imdb_id: "nm3210494"
tmdb_id: 998570
wikidata_id: "Q30729270"
roles: ["Character designer"]
born: "1 December 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-09-24T03:19:50.137658+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."
---

# Eric Guillon

## Identity

Eric Guillon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/eric-guillon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** eric-guillon
- **IMDb ID:** nm3210494
- **TMDB ID:** 998570
- **Wikidata ID:** Q30729270
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30729270, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3210494/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/998570

Character designer. Born 1 December 1966 in Nice, France.

## Details

- **Work:** Character designer
- **Born:** 1 December 1966, Nice, France
- **Active:** 2016–present
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 70 (1), 2020s 63 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 64 to 64 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Animation 4, Comedy 4, Family 4, Music 2, Action 1, Adventure 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,520m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30729270, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3210494/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/998570

## Coming up

- *Not Alone* (2027-03-18), Director

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Sing*](https://film.one/film/sing.md) (70)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Eric Guillon is a French character designer and production designer. He began his career in the 1990s at Fantôme Animation, working on the series *Insektors*, before joining Illumination Entertainment around 2010.

Guillon contributed to the *Despicable Me* franchise as art director and character designer on the first film (2010) and as co-director on *Despicable Me 3* (2017). He has served as production designer on *Minions* (2015), *The Secret Life of Pets* (2016) and *Sing* (2016). He is scheduled to direct the original film *Not Alone* (2027).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Minions & Monsters* (2026), Fi1m 70, Character Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/minions-and-monsters.md)
- *Despicable Me 4* (2024), Fi1m 55, Character Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/despicable-me-4.md)
- *Sing 2* (2021), Fi1m 63, Character Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/sing-2.md)
- *Sing* (2016), Fi1m 70, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/sing.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

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

- *Not Alone* (2027), Director
- *Minions & Monsters* (2026), Character Designer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/minions-and-monsters.md)
- *Despicable Me 4* (2024), Character Designer — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/despicable-me-4.md)
- *Minions: The Rise of Gru* (2022), Character Designer
- *Sing 2* (2021), Character Designer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/sing-2.md)
- *The Secret Life of Pets 2* (2019), Character Designer
- *The Grinch* (2018), Character Designer
- *Despicable Me 3* (2017), Co-Director, Character Designer
- *Sing* (2016), Production Design, Character Designer — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/sing.md)
- *The Secret Life of Pets* (2016), Production Design, Character Designer
- *Minions* (2015), Production Design, Character Designer
- *Despicable Me 2* (2013), as Art Direction · Production Design, Character Designer
- *The Lorax* (2012), Character Designer, Art Direction
- *Brad & Gary* (2011), Production Design
- *Despicable Me* (2010), as Art Direction · Character Designer

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