Biography
Yarrow Cheney is an American production designer, animator and director. He attended the California Institute of the Arts from 1992 to 1995 and began his career as a character animator on films including Cats Don't Dance (1997), Quest for Camelot (1998) and The Iron Giant (1999).
He worked as production designer on the short The ChubbChubbs! (2002) and the feature Curious George (2006). At Illumination he served as production designer on Despicable Me (2010), The Lorax (2012) and Despicable Me 2 (2013). He later co-directed The Secret Life of Pets (2016) with Chris Renaud and directed The Grinch (2018) with Scott Mosier.
Cheney received Annie Award nominations for production design on Despicable Me and character design on The Lorax, and shared a Primetime Emmy Award for main title design on the series Dilbert (1999) with his wife, Carrie Cheney.
