The Color Of Pixar

About The Color Of Pixar

Bold and beautiful, this volume presents hundreds of film stills from the Pixar archives in a glorious spectrum of color. Starting with bright white images and seamlessly flowing through the colors of the rainbow, it becomes crystal clear how each frame tells a story. Bound into a gorgeous volume, The Color of Pixar encapsulates everything there is to love about the studio: the attention to detail, the playful characters, and the sheer scope of their work in over 20 years of iconic feature films.

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About Tia Kratter

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.​

She 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 was responsible for specifying the color and texture of every object modeled for a film.

Prior to Pixar, Tia Kratter 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: from the Museum of Modern Art in New York to Oakland, as well as in cities in Japan and England.

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