KRATTER Tia

As a seasoned artist in the CG and traditional animation world, Tia Kratter brings artistic strengths and collaborative team-building to create beautiful imagery. Currently she is working as a Visual Development artist at Walt Disney Feature Animation. She completed work on Wish in 2023 and is now working on Zootopia 2, due to be released in Fall of 2025.​

Tia Kratter joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1993 as a Digital Painter during the production of the studio’s first feature film, Toy Story. She has subsequently held the Shader Art Director role on five other films, including Pixar’s "Monster’s Inc.", "A Bugs Life", “Brave", and others. As a Texture Art Director at Pixar, Tia Kratter was responsible for specifying the color and texture of every object modeled for a film.

Prior to Pixar, she was a background painter at Disney Feature Animation from 1980 to 1994, where she worked on a variety of acclaimed animated films including "The Little Mermaid", “Aladdin", and "Beauty and the Beast" and others. Her paintings for films have been in exhibits around the world: MoMA, Japan, England, and beautiful Oakland, California, among other exotic locations.