Phil.
Shoebottom

I’m a lighting artist and creative technologist with over 20 years of experience bringing stories to life through light.

My path began in boutique CG studios creating game cinematics and product visualisation, before moving to Pixar, where I spent more than a decade contributing to films including Toy Story 4, Cars 3 and Inside Out. I received a VES Award for Outstanding Created Environment for the Antiques Mall sequence in Toy Story 4.

More recently, I’ve collaborated with Walt Disney Animation Studios and taken on creative and technical consulting roles that bridge design, technology and storytelling.

Outside film, I’m a photographer and visual creative exploring how light, colour and composition shape the way we experience the world.