About Patrick Lin
Patrick Lin was a cinematographer.
Patrick Lin is a Hong Kong–born cinematographer and layout artist who works for Pixar. He was the director of photography on The Incredibles, 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. 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.
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). He also worked as a location manager for Radio Television Hong Kong, assisting the company with filming in the United States. 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. 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.
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