Jerome Ranft
Jerome E. Ranft is a character sculptor for Pixar Animation Studios. He is the brother of deceased Pixar story artist Joe Ranft.[1]
Ranft joined Pixar in 1997 working as a character sculptor on the short film Geri's Game (1997) and later on Pixar's second movie A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003), Cars (2006), Ratatouille (2007), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Brave (2012). He stated in an interview that he doesn't fall in love with just one sculpture he made but all of them and that for the character of Sulley he created over 30 different sculptures. He also provided the voice of the character Gamma in Up (2009) and the short film Dug's Special Mission and Red in Cars Toons: Tales from Radiator Springs, as well as the voice of the Mover in Henry Selick's Coraline. Before joining Pixar, Jerome served as a character sculptor for Disney's James and the Giant Peach (1996).
References
- ↑ "'Finding Dory' release date: Sequel swimming into our hearts June 2016". MNR Daily. July 22, 2015. Retrieved February 2, 2016.
