---
name: "Michael Kurinsky"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-kurinsky"
fi1m_id: "michael-kurinsky"
imdb_id: "nm2116142"
tmdb_id: 968411
wikidata_id: "Q28942632"
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 64
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T13:42:23.286843+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."
---

# Michael Kurinsky

## Identity

Michael Kurinsky

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-kurinsky
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-kurinsky
- **IMDb ID:** nm2116142
- **TMDB ID:** 968411
- **Wikidata ID:** Q28942632
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28942632, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2116142/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/968411

Production designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Active:** 2009–2015
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 75 (1), 2010s 52 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28942632, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2116142/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/968411

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Hotel Transylvania 2*](https://film.one/film/hotel-transylvania-2.md) (52)

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

## Biography

Michael Kurinsky is a production designer and art director in feature animation. He studied fine arts at the University of Arizona and began his career painting backgrounds for television commercials before joining Walt Disney Feature Animation.

At Disney he worked on hand-painted backgrounds for *Beauty and the Beast* (1991), *Hercules* (1997), *Atlantis: The Lost Empire* (2001), *Fantasia 2000* (1999) and *Home on the Range* (2004). After nearly ten years there he moved to Sony Pictures Animation, where he served as visual development artist on *Open Season* (2006), art director on *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs* (2009) and production designer on *Hotel Transylvania 2* (2015).

In late 2017 he joined Warner Animation Group as production designer on *Scoob!* (2020), in which he also voiced a character. He has contributed visual development work to later films including *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* (2018) and *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (2023).

*Sources: imdb.com, mkurinsky.artstation.com, cartoonbrew.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Hotel Transylvania 2* (2015), Fi1m 52, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/hotel-transylvania-2.md)
- *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs* (2009), Fi1m 75, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *KPop Demon Hunters* (2025), as Visual Development — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/kpop-demon-hunters.md)
- *Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse* (2023), as Visual Development — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse.md)
- *Scoob!* (2020), as Samuel Colton (voice) · Production Design
- *Hotel Transylvania 2* (2015), Production Design — Fi1m 52, [page](https://film.one/film/hotel-transylvania-2.md)
- *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2* (2013), as Visual Development
- *Arthur Christmas* (2011), Key Animation — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/arthur-christmas.md)
- *Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs* (2009), as Art Direction — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs.md)
- *Home on the Range* (2004), Background Designer
- *Beauty and the Beast* (1991), Background Designer — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/beauty-and-the-beast.md)

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