Justin was born in Brooklyn, New York, where he was raised on a healthy diet of television and movies. After studying art and film at the University of Arizona in Tucson he moved to the Bay Area to pursue a career as as a museum curator. The next three years were spent developing film programs and large scale multimedia exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. When an opportunity came up to work at Lucasfilm’s Skywalker Ranch during Star Wars: Episode I, his inner geek could not resist. Justin has been working on feature films ever since. He has been a computer graphics artist at Industrial Light & Magic, Weta and Tippett Studio.

In 2011 he was invited to join Laika as the Paint/Roto Lead on their second feature, Paranorman. He has been happily residing in Portland, Oregon with his wife Pam ever since. While becoming a Unity certified developer and building VR apps, he supervised a team of 20 artists on Laika’s fifth feature Missing Link. For the last few years he has been the on-set VFX Lead and Paint/Roto Supervisor on Henry Selick and Jordan Peele’s Wendell & Wild. 

Get in touch at justin@justingraham.com