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name: "Mingjue Helen Chen"
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fi1m_id: "mingjue-helen-chen"
imdb_id: "nm5451270"
tmdb_id: 2495190
roles: ["Production designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T14:37:51.108684+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."
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# Mingjue Helen Chen

## Identity

Mingjue Helen Chen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mingjue-helen-chen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mingjue-helen-chen
- **IMDb ID:** nm5451270
- **TMDB ID:** 2495190
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5451270/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2495190

Production designer. Born in Beijing.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Also known as:** Helen Mingjue Chen
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5451270/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2495190

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*KPop Demon Hunters*](https://film.one/film/kpop-demon-hunters.md) (76)

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

## Biography

Mingjue Helen Chen, also credited as Helen Mingjue Chen, is a production designer and visual development artist working in animation. She is a first-generation Chinese American born in Beijing and raised in Minnesota. She studied traditional Chinese watercolour painting and calligraphy before graduating from the Academy of Art University in 2010.

Chen began her animation career as an illustrator on *Frankenweenie* (2012). She spent nearly ten years at Walt Disney Animation Studios, contributing to *Wreck-It Ralph* (2012), *Big Hero 6* (2014) and *Ralph Breaks the Internet* (2018), and serving as production designer on *Raya and the Last Dragon* (2021). She has also worked as art director on *Wonder Park* (2019) and as production designer on *KPop Demon Hunters* (2025) for Sony Pictures Animation.

She has received an Annie Award for her work on *KPop Demon Hunters* and has contributed to comics and publishing projects for DC Comics, Marvel and Boom Studios.

*Sources: imdb.com, capeusa.org, community.wacom.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *KPop Demon Hunters* (2025), Fi1m 76, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/kpop-demon-hunters.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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

- *KPop Demon Hunters* (2025), Production Design — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/kpop-demon-hunters.md)
- *Raya and the Last Dragon* (2021), Production Design
- *Wonder Park* (2019), as Art Direction
- *Ralph Breaks the Internet* (2018), Production Design
- *Wreck-It Ralph* (2012), as Visual Development — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/wreck-it-ralph.md)

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