Jay Shuster grew up in the automotive design and engineering circles of Detroit graduating from the industrial design program at College for Creative Studies in 1993. He worked on early revs of digital drawing and painting software at Alias/ Autodesk in Toronto before moving to California to work on The Star Wars Prequels where he designed ships, hardware and environments. He’s been at Pixar the last 21 years designing characters and environments for the Cars franchise, Wall-E, Toy Story, shorts dept, The Blue Umbrella, Cars streaming and, most recently, working on projects in Pixar's Development dept.