Biography
Patrick Lin is a Hong Kong-born cinematographer and layout artist who has worked at Pixar Animation Studios since 1997. He trained at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where he completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in film and video.
Lin joined Pixar as a layout artist on A Bug's Life (1998) and later served as director of photography on The Incredibles (2004), Up (2009), Inside Out (2015) and Toy Story 4 (2019). He has also contributed layout work to films including Monsters, Inc. (2001), Ratatouille (2007) and Monsters University (2013), and camera supervision on shorts such as The Blue Umbrella (2013) and Bao (2018). On Inside Out, he introduced Pixar's first virtual camera lens modelled on a real lens.
