Ranft attended
Fullerton College and the
California College of the Arts. He graduated in 1991. His first job out of school was on the
Tim Burton-produced classic
The Nightmare Before Christmas. Ranft joined Pixar in 1997, working as a character sculptor on ''
Geri's Game'' (1997) and later on Pixar's second film ''
A Bug's Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), Monsters, Inc. (2001), Finding Nemo (2003), Cars (2006), Ratatouille (2007), WALL-E (2008), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Brave (2012). He stated in an interview that he does not intend to like 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 Dug's Special Mission, Red in Cars Toons: Tales from Radiator Springs
and Cars 3'', the Mover in Henry Selick's
Coraline, as well as Jacques in
Finding Dory (2016), the sequel to
Finding Nemo (2003), in which his older brother Joe voiced the same character. Before joining Pixar, Jerome served as a character sculptor for Disney's
James and the Giant Peach (1996). ==References==