
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 A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2. She was also the shading art director of Monsters, Inc., Cars, and Brave.
Filmography[]
- Toy Story (1995): lead CG painter
- A Bug's Life (1998): shading art director, shading designer
- Toy Story 2 (1999): additional art consultant
- Monsters, Inc. (2001): shading art director
- Boundin' (2003): art direction consultant
- Cars (2006): shading art director
- Mater and the Ghostlight (2006): shading art director
- Ratatouille (2007): Pixar Studio Team - Pixar Productions
- Mater's Tall Tales (2008-2012):
- Rescue Squad Mater (2008): additional production support
- Mater the Greater (2008): additional production support
- El Materdor (2008): additional production support
- 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 (2017): Pixar Studio Team - Pixar University & Archives
- Coco (2017): Pixar Studio Team - Pixar University & Archives
- Incredibles 2 (2018): Pixar Studio Team - Pixar University & Archives
- Kitbull (2019): additional artist
- Toy Story 4 (2019): Pixar Studio Team - Pixar University & Archives
- Onward (2020): Pixar Studio Team - Pixar University & Archives
- Soul (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.