Arnie Watkins was born in South Carolina and lived in a small lake town until moving to Los Angeles at the age of 19 when he also started regularly traveling to remote destinations to surf, work, and create. He's found that his favorite place is in nature and in the hot sun as that’s where he’s been able to produce his best work. Most of Arnie’s work is still location-based and healthy life-oriented.

Since his beginnings in advertising and action sports, he works closely with his own production company Pacific Interlude mainly as a creative director.