Paul Downs is a writer and animator with over twenty years of experience spanning film, TV, and commercial production. Paul has written and developed projects for Apple TV+, 20th Century Fox, Blue Sky Studios, Janet Yang Productions, Cartoon Network, Humanoids Publishing and Smart Entertainment. Paul's animation credits include "Robots", the "Ice Age" franchise, "Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who", "Rio", "Epic", "Free Birds", "Spies in Disguise", the 2017 Oscar® nominated film "Ferdinand" as well as the two short films "Surviving Sid" and the Oscar® nominated, "No Time for Nuts."