Paul Topolos grew up in Northern California and studied fine art in the US and UK. His lifelong interest in movies led him into the entertainment industry where he began work as a storyboard artist for the video game division of his childhood hero, George Lucas.

After learning many skills and working on several well received projects he went on to Lucasfilm where he briefly storyboarded on Star Wars Episode I and later was a pre-visualization matte painter on Star Wars Episode II.

In 2002, Topolos came to Pixar Animation Studios. He has worked on almost every Pixar films such as The Incredibles, Cars, Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, Wall-E and more, doing landscapes, concept paintings, colour studies, photographic paintings, storyboards and model paintings. His recent works include additional production art work for Toy Story 3.

He has also spoken and taught around the world and is currently using his time outside of work to complete his first children's book.

Animation, Architecture, Illustration, Creativity, Disney, Pixar, Storytelling, Design, Innovation, Artists, Film Industry Filmmaking, Television & Film,