Joe Ranft
Moby ID: 120160
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Born in Pasadena in 1960, Joe Ranft was raised in Whittier, California, where as a child he developed a fondness for performing magic tricks. He was a classmate of Pixar's John Lasseter at the California Institute of the Arts in the 1970s.
After two years at CalArts, Ranft joined Disney in 1980. In 1992, he reunited with Lasseter at Pixar, where his early work included pitching and storyboarding the first sequence for "Toy Story," the Green Army Men sketch.
Mr. Ranft, Pixar Animation Studios' head of story for more than a decade and a cornerstone of the company's creative team, died August 16, 2005 when the car he was riding in plunged into the ocean after running off the road in Mendocino County, California. He was 45.
Credited on 17 games
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| Disney•Pixar Cars: Race-O-Rama (2009, Xbox 360) | Co-Director |
| Disney•Pixar Cars: Race-O-Rama (2009, Nintendo DS) | Co-Director |
| Disney•Pixar Cars: Mater-National Championship (2007, Windows) | Featuring the Voice Talents of |
| Disney•Pixar Cars: Mater-National Championship (2007, Nintendo DS) | Co-Director |
| Disney•Pixar Cars: Mater-National Championship (2007, Game Boy Advance) | Co-Director |
| Disney•Pixar Cars (2006, Game Boy Advance) | Co-Director |
| Disney•Pixar Cars (2006, PlayStation 2) | Co-Director |
| Disney Presents a Pixar Film: Cars (2006, PSP) | Co-Director |
| Disney Presents a Pixar Film: Cars (2006, Nintendo DS) | Co‑Director |
| Disney•Pixar Cars: Radiator Springs Adventures (2006, Windows) | Co-Director |
| Disney's Extreme Skate Adventure (2003, PlayStation 2) | Featuring the Voice Talents of |
| Disney•Pixar Finding Nemo (2003, PlayStation 2) | Featuring the Voice Talents of |
| Disney•Pixar Monsters, Inc.: Scream Arena (2002, GameCube) | Featuring the Voice Talents of |
| Disney's Activity Centre: Disney•Pixar A Bug's Life (1999, Windows) | With the voice talents of |
| Disney•Pixar A Bug's Life (1999, Windows) | With the Voice Talents of |
| Disney's Animated Storybook: Toy Story (1996, Windows 3.x) | Additional Story and Writing |
| Disney's Toy Story Activity Center (1996, Windows) | Special Thanks |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 15 games with John Lasseter
- 14 games with Bob Pauley
- 13 games with Ben Butcher
- 12 games with Darla K. Anderson
- 11 games with Liz Pieri
- 11 games with Renée Johnson
- 11 games with William Cone
- 10 games with Ian Curran
- 10 games with Kristina Kirk
- 10 games with Saaren Ghazi
Companies
- 12 games with THQ Inc.
- 6 games with Disney Interactive Studios, Inc.
- 5 games with Rainbow Studios
- 4 games with THQ Entertainment GmbH
- 3 games with Incinerator Studios LLC
- 3 games with Tantalus Media Pty Ltd.
- 3 games with CDP Sp. z o.o.
- 3 games with Pixar Animation Studios
- 2 games with TT Games Studios Ltd.
- 2 games with Helixe
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