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Pixar Animation Studios Pixar Animation Studios (commonly known as Pixar () and stylized as P I X A R) is an American computer animation studio known for its critically and commercially successful computer animated feature films. It is based in Emeryville, Californ ...

. This includes past Pixar employees, as well as those who served as its primary directors and creative executives.

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Ash Brannon Ashton Brannon (born October 31, 1969) is an American Emmy Award-winning writer, director, visual artist, animator, and producer. He was a story artist and directing animator on ''Toy Story'' and co-director of ''Toy Story 2''. He also directed a ...

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Alan Barillaro Nicolas Alan Barillaro is a Canadian director, animator and writer at Pixar best known for his work on the animated short film ''Piper'', that earned him widespread acclaim and an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film which he shared with th ...

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Andrew Coats Andrew Justin Stewart Coats (born 1 February 1958) is an Australian–British academic cardiologist who has particular interest in the management of heart failure. His research suggested exercise training (rather than bed rest) as a more effe ...

* AJ: Andrew Jimenez * AM:

Angus MacLane Angus MacLane (born April 13, 1975) is an American animator, storyboard artist, character designer, screenwriter, film director, and voice actor currently working at Pixar. He co-directed the film ''Finding Dory'' (2016) and made his solo feature ...

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Adrian Molina Adrian Molina (born August 23, 1985) is an American animator, storyboard artist, screenwriter, director, and lyricist. He has been at Pixar since 2007, where he started as a 2D animator on ''Ratatouille''. He later moved on to be a storyboard a ...

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Austin Madison Austin Madison (born 1984) is an American animator, artist, story artist, and voice actor who works at Pixar Animation Studios. Early life After graduating from Sheldon High School in 2002, he attended the character animation program at the ...

* AJR: A. J. Riebli * ARS: Alvy Ray Smith * AS:

Andrew Stanton Andrew Ayers Stanton (born December 3, 1965) is an American filmmaker and voice actor based at Pixar, which he joined in 1990. His film work includes co-writing and co-directing Pixar's ''A Bug's Life'' (1998), directing '' Finding Nemo'' (2003) ...

* AW: Andrea Warren * BA:

Bonnie Arnold Bonnie Arnold is an American film producer and executive who has worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios, Walt Disney Feature Animation, Pixar Animation Studios and DreamWorks Animation. Arnold was born in Atlanta, Georgia and rose to prominence ...

* BAR: Bobby Alcid Rubio * BB:

Brad Bird Phillip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American film director, animator, screenwriter, producer, and voice actor. He has had a career spanning forty years in both animation and live-action. Bird was born in Montana and grew up i ...

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Ben Burtt Benjamin Burtt Jr. (born July 12, 1948) is an American sound designer, film director and editor, screenwriter, and voice actor. As a sound designer, his credits include the ''Star Wars'' and ''Indiana Jones'' film series, ''Invasion of the Body ...

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Brenda Chapman Brenda Chapman (born November 1, 1962) is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist, and director. In 1998, she became the first woman to direct an animated feature from a major studio, DreamWorks Animation's ''The Prince of Egypt' ...

* BF: Brian Fee * BL:

Bud Luckey William Everett Luckey (July 28, 1934 – February 24, 2018) was an American animator, artist, cartoonist, composer, illustrator, musician, singer and voice actor. He worked at the animation studio Pixar, where he worked as a character designer ...

* BnL: Brian Larsen * BrL:

Brad Lewis Bradford Clark Lewis (born April 29, 1958) is an American film producer, animation director, and politician. He produced ''Antz'', the Oscar-winning ''Ratatouille,'' and '' How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World''. He also co-directed ''Cars ...

* BP: Bob Peterson * BoP: Bob Pauley * BW: Brad West * CK:

Craig Kellman Craig Kellman (born September 28, 1971) is an American animator, character designer and director. He is best known for his work on ''Madagascar'' (2005), ''Hotel Transylvania'' (2012), ''Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2'' (2013), '' Trolls'' ( ...

* DF: Danielle Feinberg * DG:

Dan Gerson Daniel Robert Gerson (August 1, 1966 – February 6, 2016) was an American screenwriter and voice actor, best known for his work with Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He co-wrote the screenplays of '' Monsters, Inc.'', ' ...

* DH: Darren Holmes * DKA:

Darla K. Anderson Darla Kay Anderson (born October 22, 1968) is an American film producer who formerly worked at Pixar Animation Studios. She sits on the national board of directors for the Producers Guild of America. Life and career She produced the 2010 film ' ...

* DL: Dan Lee * DLM: Daniel López Muñoz * DM: Dave Mullins * DaM:

Dana Murray Dana Leigh Murray is an American animator and film producer, best known for being the producer on the 2020 Pixar film ''Soul (2020 film), Soul'', for which she has won an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Academy Award for Best Animat ...

* DR: Denise Ream * DS:

Dan Scanlon Dan Scanlon (born June 21, 1976) is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, and screenwriter, working for Pixar, for whom he has directed ''Monsters University'' and '' Onward''. Early life Scanlon grew up in Clawson, Michigan. When ...

* DoS: Doug Sweetland * DmS: Domee Shi * DvS: David Silverman * DT: David Torres * EC:

Edwin Catmull Edwin Earl "Ed" Catmull (born March 31, 1945) is an American computer scientist who is the co-founder of Pixar and was the President of Walt Disney Animation Studios. He has been honored for his contributions to 3D computer graphics, including th ...

* EdC: Edwing Chang * ErC:

Enrico Casarosa Enrico Casarosa (born November 20, 1971) is an Italian-American storyboard artist, film director, and writer who works at Pixar. In 2012, he was nominated for an Academy Award for the animated short film ''La Luna (2011 film), La Luna''. In 2022, ...

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Eben Fiske Ostby Eben Fiske Ostby (born February 24, 1955) is a pioneer computer graphics software developer, animator, and technical director for motion pictures. Ostby was born in Hampton, Connecticut, United States. He graduated from Pomfret School and Vassar ...

* EK: Edgar Karapetyan * ElK:

Elissa Knight Elissa Knight (born April 15, 1975) is an American employee at Pixar and voice actress. As a voice actress, her first major role was in the 2006 film ''Cars'' as one of the twins known as Tia and as Eve in ''WALL-E'' 2008. Biography Knight wa ...

* EM: Erica Milsom * GM: Glenn McQueen * GQ:

Guido Quaroni solidThinking is a software company developing Evolve, a 3D modeling and rendering software and Inspire, a concept generation tool. History Brothers Alex Mazzardo and Mario Mazzardo started the solidThinking project in 1991 with Guido Quaroni ...

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Gary Rydstrom Gary Roger Rydstrom (born June 29, 1959) is an American sound designer and film director. He has been nominated for 20 Academy Awards for his work in sound for movies, winning 7. Life and career Rydstrom was born in Chicago. He graduated from t ...

* GS: Galyn Susman * GCS:

Gini Cruz Santos Gini Cruz Santos is a Filipina animator at Pixar studios based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She worked on numerous Pixar animation films including ''Toy Story 2'',Nov 17, 2004, Levent Ozler, DexignerGini Cruz Santos: An Incredible Pinay Animato ...

* GW: Graham Walters * HJ: Harley Jessup * IN: Irsan Nurwan * JC: Jim Capobianco * JsC:

Josh Cooley Joshua Cooley (born May 23, 1979) is an American animator, screenwriter, director and voice actor. He is best known for directing the 2019 film ''Toy Story 4'', the fourth film of the Toy Story (franchise), ''Toy Story'' franchise, for which he ...

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John Kahrs John Kahrs (born 1967/1968) is an American actor, animator and film director. Kahrs attended NSCAD University, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1990. He began his career at Blue Sky Studios in New York, where he worked as an ...

* JCK: Jean-Claude Kalache * JaK: Jason Katz * JoK:

Jorgen Klubien Jørgen Klubien (born May 20, 1958) is a Danish animator, storyboard artist, and writer. He is known for working on many Disney films, like ''The Nightmare Before Christmas'' (1993), ''The Lion King'' (1994), ''A Bug's Life'' (1998), ''Cars'' ( ...

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John Lasseter John Alan Lasseter (; born January 12, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, voice actor, and the head of animation at Skydance Animation. He was previously the chief creative officer of Pixar Animation Studios ...

* JaL: Janet Lucroy * JeL: Jeremy Lasky * JM:

Jim Morris James Samuel Morris Jr. (born January 19, 1964) is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for two seasons with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. Although brief, Morris' career is noted for making hi ...

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James Ford Murphy James Ford Murphy is an American animator. He is the head of animation at Pixar Animation Studios. He directed the 2014 short film ''Lava''. Filmography Feature films * ''A Bug's Life'' – additional character designer, animator * ''Toy Story ...

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Jan Pinkava Jan Jaroslav Pinkava (born 21 June 1963, in Prague) is a Czech-British-American producer, director, writer, and animator. He directed the Pixar short film ''Geri's Game'' and served as co-director and co-wrote the story for ''Ratatouille'', bot ...

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Jeff Pidgeon Jeff Pidgeon is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist, and voice actor at Pixar. Early life Influenced by Charles M. Schulz's comic strip ''Peanuts'', Jeff Pidgeon dreamed of becoming a newspaper cartoonist. He studied and gra ...

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John Ratzenberger John Dezso Ratzenberger (born April 6, 1947)About John
from Ratzenberger's official website is an Americ ...

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Joe Ranft Joseph Henry Ranft (March 13, 1960 – August 16, 2005) was an American screenwriter, animator, storyboard artist and voice actor. He worked for Pixar Animation Studios and Disney at Walt Disney Animation Studios and Disney Television Animation ...

* JoR: Jonas Rivera * JS: Jay Shuster * JW: John Walker * KB:

Kyle Balda Kyle Balda (born March 9, 1971) is an American animator and film director, best known for co-directing the Illumination films ''The Lorax'' (2012), with Chris Renaud; '' Minions'' (2015), with Pierre Coffin; and '' Minions: The Rise of Gru'' ( ...

* KOB: Kevin O'Brien * KL: Kristen Lester * KM: Kelsey Mann * KeR: Kevin Reher * KoR: Kori Rae * KS: Katherine Sarafian * KeS:

Ken Schretzmann Ken Schretzmann is an American film editor known for animated features such as ''Cars'' (2006), ''Toy Story 3'' (2010), '' The Lorax'' (2012), and ''The Secret Life of Pets'' (2016) as well as ''The Willoughbys'' (2020) and ''Pinocchio'' (2022). ...

* KW: Kim White * LC:

Loren Carpenter Loren C. Carpenter (born February 7, 1947) is a computer graphics researcher and developer. Biography He was a co-founder and chief scientist of Pixar Animation Studios. He is the co-inventor of the Reyes rendering algorithm and is one of the ...

* LiC: Lindsey Collins * LR:

Lou Romano Lou Romano (born April 15, 1972) is an American animator and voice actor. He did design work on '' Monsters, Inc.'' and ''The Incredibles'', and he provided the voices of Bernie Kropp in ''The Incredibles'', Snot Rod in ''Cars'' and Alfredo Ling ...

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Lee Unkrich Lee Edward Unkrich (born August 8, 1967) is an American film director, film editor, screenwriter, and animator. He was a longtime member of the creative team at Pixar, where he started in 1994 as a film editor. He later began directing, first as ...

* MA: Mark Andrews * MaA: Mahyar Abousaeedi * MiA:

Michael Arndt Michael Arndt is an American screenwriter. He is best known as the writer of the films ''Little Miss Sunshine'' (2006), ''Toy Story 3'' (2010), and '' Star Wars: The Force Awakens'' (2015). Arndt won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenpl ...

* MtA: Matt Aspbury * MJ: Mike Jones * ML:

Matthew Luhn Matthew Luhn is an American writer, story consultant, animator, director, creative writing instructor and keynote speaker known for creating stories and characters, most notably at Pixar and The Simpsons. Career Luhn attended the character animat ...

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Meg LeFauve Meg LeFauve is an American screenwriter and film producer. Early life LeFauve was raised in Warren, Ohio, and attended Syracuse University. Career LeFauve began her film career as a producer and President of Egg Pictures, Jodie Foster's fi ...

* MO: Michael K. O'Brien * MN: Mark Nielsen * MS: Michael Silvers * MaS: Marc Sondheimer * MdS: Madeline Sharafian * MiS: Michael Sparber * MW: Mark Walsh * MaW: Magnus Wrenninge * NPG: Nicole Paradis Grindle * NP:

Nick Pitera Nicholas Joseph Pitera (born March 7, 1986) is an American singer, animator and YouTuber. , Pitera worked as a 3D Modeler at Pixar Studios. Pitera sung the Triple Dent Gum jingle in Pixar's ''Inside Out''. He was also known as the singing voice ...

* NCS: Nicolas C. Smith * NS: Nick Sung * OS:

Osnat Shurer Osnat Shurer is the producer of the 2021 Academy Award®-nominated Disney animated feature RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON, as well as the 2016 Academy Award®-nominated musical MOANA. Shurer first joined Disney Animation Studios in 2012 as VP of Deve ...

* PD: Pete Docter * PL: Patrick Lin * PS:

Peter Sohn Peter Sohn (born October 18, 1977) is an American animator, voice actor, storyboard artist, and film director. He is known for his work at Pixar Animation Studios as the director of 2015's ''The Good Dinosaur''. He has also been the voice of Emil ...

* RA: Robert Anderson * RLB: Robert L. Baird * RC:

Robert L. Cook Robert L. Cook (December 10, 1952) is a computer graphics researcher and developer, and the co-creator of the RenderMan rendering software. His contributions are considered to be highly influential in the field of animated arts. In 2009, Cook ...

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Ronnie Del Carmen Ronnie del Carmen (born December 31, 1959) is a Filipino animation writer, director, story artist, story supervisor and production designer. He co-directed and was one of the story writers for the 2015 Pixar film '' Inside Out'', for which he ...

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Ralph Eggleston Ralph Eggleston (October 18, 1965 – August 28, 2022). was an American animator, art director, storyboard artist, and production designer at Pixar Animation Studios. He won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for '' For the Birds''. ...

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Ralph Guggenheim Ralph Guggenheim (born June 6, 1951) is an American video graphics designer and film producer. He won a Producers Guild of America Award in 1995 for his contributions to the film ''Toy Story''. Biography He was born in New Rochelle, New York to ...

* RLG: Roger L. Gould * RoG: Rob Gibbs * RK: Robert Kondo * RN: Ricky Nierva * RQ: Rich Quade * RS:

Rosana Sullivan Rosana Sullivan is an American director, storyboard artist, writer, and executive producer. Since 2011, she has worked for Pixar Animation Studios. In 2019 she wrote and directed her first animated short film, ''Kitbull'', for which she received ...

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Randy Thom David Randall Thom (born August 21, 1951) is an American sound designer and the current director of sound design at Skywalker Sound. Career Randy Thom began working at FM radio station WYSO at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio as a volunte ...

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Sharon Calahan Sharon Calahan is an American cinematographer who was director of photography on the Pixar films ''A Bug's Life'' (1998), ''Toy Story 2'' (1999), and ''Finding Nemo'' (2003), and was lighting director for ''Ratatouille'' (2007), ''Cars 2'' (2011 ...

* SCH: Steven Clay Hunter * SJ: Steve Jobs * SjP:

Sanjay Patel Sanjay Patel is an American animator and illustrator who has worked in the animation department of various projects, most of them animated films released by Pixar. Background Born in London, United Kingdom to Gujarati Indian parents, Pate ...

* SPR: Stevey Pilcher * SPL: Steve Purcell * SS: Stephen Schaffer * SU: Saschka Unseld * TD:

Tom Duff Tom or TOM may refer to: * Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name) Characters * Tom Anderson, a character in '' Beavis and Butt-Head'' * Tom Beck, a character ...

* TM: Tom Myers * TN: Teddy Newton * TP: Tom Porter * WC: William Cone * WR: William Reeves

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