Meeting Speaker for November 17, 2015

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on Nov 04, 2015

Tia Kratter

Tia joined Pixar Animation Studios in 1993 as a Digital Painter during production of the studio’s first feature film, Toy Story. She has subsequently held the Shader Art Director role on five other films; specifying the textures and colors of everything modeled in a film.

As Pixar’s Artist in Residence, Tia teaches Pixar employees a wide variety of art classes from Drawing to Painting to Photoshop, with the goal to enhance the eye in order to produce more beautiful films.

As a Shader Art Director at Pixar, Tia was responsible for specifying the color and texture of every object modeled for a film.

Prior to Pixar, Tia 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, Tron, and others.

Tia is a graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She currently resides in Moraga, California with her husband Paul and her Corgi, Zipper.