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Patrick Lin
Chinese林敬雄
Patrick Lin in 2016

Patrick Lin ( Chinese: 林敬雄) [1] is a Hong Kong–born cinematographer and layout artist who works for Pixar. He was the director of photography on The Incredibles (2004), Up (2009), Inside Out (2015) and Toy Story 4 (2019).

Early life

Lin was born and raised in British Hong Kong, where he attended St. Paul's Co-educational College. [2] He moved to Canada at the age of 15, and later moved again to San Francisco to attend the California College of Arts, where he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in film and video. [3]

Career

Lin's first credited job in the film industry was as a camera and lighting assistant on James and the Giant Peach (1996). He later worked as a motion control photographer on Wag the Dog (1997), The Truman Show (1998) and X-Men (2000). [4] He also worked as a location manager for Radio Television Hong Kong, assisting the company with filming in the United States. [2]

Lin has worked at Pixar since he first joined in September 1997 as a layout artist on A Bug's Life (1998). [4] He was the director of photography on The Incredibles (2004) and Up (2009), and a lead layout artist on Monsters, Inc. (2001) and Ratatouille (2007). He was also a contributing layout artist on Brave (2012) and Monsters University (2013). [3] In 2015, Lin was the cinematographer on Pixar's Inside Out; his full credited title was "director of photography – camera and staging". [5] On Inside Out, he pioneered Pixar's first use of a virtual camera lens based on an actual camera lens, so that the animation appears to be filmed on an actual camera. [4] He later served as a layout artist on The Good Dinosaur (2015) [6] and director of photography on Toy Story 4 (2019). In total, he has worked on over twenty Pixar projects, including feature films and short films. [3]

References

  1. ^ "林敬雄自爆似「阿驚」". Oriental Daily News. 17 July 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  2. ^ a b Poon, Alessio (18 July 2015). "Patrick Lin and his 18-year journey at Pixar". EJ Insight. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  3. ^ a b c "Public Lecture by Patrick Lin - Director of Photography, Pixar Animation Studios". Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  4. ^ a b c "How this CCA film major landed his Pixar dream job". California College of the Arts. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  5. ^ Barraclough, Leo (21 November 2015). "Camerimage: Pixar's Patrick Lin on the Cinematography of 'Inside Out'". Variety. Retrieved 5 October 2019.
  6. ^ Nemiroff, Perri (28 June 2015). "INSIDE OUT: Patrick Lin Explains What it Means to DOP an Animated Movie". Collider. Retrieved 5 October 2019.

External links

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