- Paul Griffin was born on August 18, 1960 in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. He is a producer and director, known for Deep Blue Sea (1999), Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) and Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002). He has been married to Laurie Doughty since August 15, 1981. They have three children.
- SpouseLaurie Doughty(August 15, 1981 - present) (3 children)
- Both grandfathers, father and brother are all Pentecostal ministers. He grew up experiencing the kind of energetic preaching that can be seen in the 1997 film, "The Apostle" starring Robert Duvall.
- Directed animation for the first computer animated characters seen in first run syndication on the weekly television series, "Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future" in 1985.
- His first job after college was with a division of Synthavision, the pioneering computer graphics company that contributed to "Tron". Synthavision modeled Boolean objects without polygons, animated those objects and rendered them using a text based language known as "Director's Language", often requiring thousands of lines of code to animate a single scene.
- He is the father of animators Bradley and Kristen Griffin, as well as Tiffany Rich who is a former digital compositor.
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