---
name: "Ian Gooding"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ian-gooding"
fi1m_id: "ian-gooding"
imdb_id: "nm0328951"
tmdb_id: 61420
wikidata_id: "Q27915869"
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 7
average_fi1m_score: 69
average_over: 7
updated: "2026-10-05T03:47:41.389810+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."
---

# Ian Gooding

## Identity

Ian Gooding

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ian-gooding
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ian-gooding
- **IMDb ID:** nm0328951
- **TMDB ID:** 61420
- **Wikidata ID:** Q27915869
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27915869, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0328951/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/61420

Production designer. Born in St. Andrew, Jamaica.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 1992–present
- **Frequently works with:** [Jared Bush](https://film.one/person/jared-bush.md), [Auliʻi Cravalho](https://film.one/person/aulii-cravalho.md), [Dwayne Johnson](https://film.one/person/dwayne-johnson.md), [Yvett Merino](https://film.one/person/yvett-merino.md)
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 82 (1), 2000s 57 (2), 2010s 76 (2), 2020s 68 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 69 to 67 across 7 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 2 under 60
- **Genres:** Animation 7, Family 7, Comedy 5, Adventure 4, Fantasy 4, Romance 2
- **Screen time:** 11 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $3,572m across 7 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27915869, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0328951/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/61420

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Moana*](https://film.one/film/moana.md) (82), [*Encanto*](https://film.one/film/encanto.md) (80), [*Moana 2*](https://film.one/film/moana-2.md) (55)

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

## Biography

Ian Gooding is a production designer and art director at Walt Disney Animation Studios. He joined the studio in 1990 as an effects in-betweener on the short film *The Prince and the Pauper* and later moved into visual development and art direction.

Gooding’s credits as art director include *Chicken Little* (2005), *The Princess and the Frog* (2009) and co-art director on *Wreck-It Ralph* (2012). He served as production designer on *Moana* (2016), *Encanto* (2021) and *Moana 2* (2024). He was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica.

*Sources: imdb.com, jamaicans.com, moviefone.com, insidethemagic.net.*

## On Fi1m (7)

- *Moana 2* (2024), Fi1m 55, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/moana-2.md)
- *Encanto* (2021), Fi1m 80, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/encanto.md)
- *Moana* (2016), Fi1m 82, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/moana.md)
- *Wreck-It Ralph* (2012), Fi1m 70, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/wreck-it-ralph.md)
- *The Princess and the Frog* (2009), Fi1m 72, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/the-princess-and-the-frog.md)
- *Chicken Little* (2005), Fi1m 42, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/chicken-little.md)
- *Aladdin* (1992), Fi1m 82, Background Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/aladdin.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *Moana 2* (2024), Production Design — Fi1m 55, [page](https://film.one/film/moana-2.md)
- *Strange World* (2022), as Art Direction
- *Encanto* (2021), Production Design — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/encanto.md)
- *Gone Fishing* (2017), Production Design
- *Moana* (2016), Production Design — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/moana.md)
- *Wreck-It Ralph* (2012), as Art Direction — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/wreck-it-ralph.md)
- *The Princess and the Frog* (2009), as Art Direction — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-princess-and-the-frog.md)
- *How to Hook Up Your Home Theater* (2007), as Art Direction
- *Chicken Little* (2005), as Art Direction — Fi1m 42, [page](https://film.one/film/chicken-little.md)
- *Treasure Planet* (2002), as Other
- *Runaway Brain* (1995), as Art Direction
- *Aladdin* (1992), Background Designer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/aladdin.md)

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