Tia Wallace Kratter is a long-time Pixar employee. She started at Pixar in 1993 and worked on Pixar's first feature film, Toy Story. Kratter has worked on almost every other Pixar film including Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc. and Cars. She was also the art director of Brave.
Filmography[]
- Toy Story (1995): lead CG painter
- A Bug's Life (1998): art director, shading designer
- Toy Story 2 (1999): additional art, technical consultant
- Monsters, Inc. (2001): art director
- Boundin' (2003): art direction consultant
- Cars (2006): shading art director
- Ratatouille (2007): Pixar studio team: Pixar Productions
- Brave (2012): shading art director
- Inside Out (2015): Pixar studio team: Pixar University & Archives
- The Good Dinosaur (2015): Pixar studio team: Pixar University & Archives
- Finding Dory (2016): additional artist
- Cars 3 - Soul (2017 - 2020): Pixar studio team: Pixar University & Archives
- Turning Red (2022): shading designer
Trivia[]
- Kratter is known for "quitting" as an April Fools' joke. The story of her April Fools antics were turned into a Pixar Studios Story.
- On the back of the Pizza Planet Truck, there is a sticker saying KRAT FM. This is a reference to Kratter.
- Before Pixar, she worked at Disney, including work on TRON, the movie which inspired John Lasseter to make Toy Story.
- She was also a guest judge on an episode of Cupcake Wars Champions, because the theme for the episode was the movie Brave.