Summary

Senior Creative at Wētā Workshop
Supervisor at Wētā Workshop School at Massey University

For the last nineteen years Paul has been employed at Wētā Workshop, an award-winning concept design and manufacturing facility located in Wellington, New Zealand.

He has worked as an Art Director and Senior Concept Artist on film, television and game projects notably; Peter Jackson’s and Guillermo del Toro’s “The Hobbit Trilogy”, James Cameron’s “Avatar” (and sequels), Andrew Adamson’s “Chronicles of Narnia”, Blade Runner 2049, “Ghost in the Shell”, “The Expanse”, Activision’s “Call of Duty:Vanguard” and Monolith’s “Shadow of Mordor”. Paul was also a senior creative on the award winning exhibition “Gallipoli: Scale of Our War”.
An avid artist from a young age, much of Paul’s early life was spent creating imaginary worlds, playing Dungeons & Dragons and dreaming of working for George Lucas and Jim Henson. After failing to gain entrance into art school, Paul pursued his continuing interest in history and language studying a Bachelor of Arts at Victoria University. The next four years saw Paul embark on an overseas adventure, exploring many of the ancient locations and cultures he had studied and working part-time on archaeological excavations.
Returning to Wellington to find “The Lord of the Rings” in production, Paul's passion for film was reignited, leading him to complete a Degree in Design at Massey University. His first connection with Wētā was as an extra being dressed in Gondorian armour on “Return of the King” and not long after that he started his Concept Artist career at Wētā Workshop on “The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe”.
Outside of Wētā, Paul is involved with a number of on-going creative projects. He founded New Zealand’s first science fiction and fantasy art-book anthology White Cloud Worlds (2010). This led to the creation of the entertainment convention Industry of Imagination (2016-17). Most recently Paul has returned to his gaming roots and co-founded a board game company called Arkus Games (2019).
http://www.paultobinart.com/
https://arkusgames.com/
https://www.whitecloudworlds.com/

Skills

Software proficiency

Photoshop

InDesign

Illustrator

ZBrush

DAZ Studio