Nik Ranieri

Nik Ranieri

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Character layout artist Birth date: August 23, 1961 (1961-08-23) Status: Active Number of episodes: 52 Seasons active: Season 29 - Present First episode: "King Leer" Most recent episode: "The Very Hungry Caterpillars"

Nik Ranieri (born August 23, 1961) is an American animator. He currently serves as a character layout artist for The Simpsons.

Awards

Award Year Episode Result Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation 2021 "Wad Goals" Won

Credits

Character layout

Episode – "King Leer" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIX" Episode – "Krusty the Clown" Episode – "Mad About the Toy" Episode – "The Clown Stays in the Picture" Episode – "E My Sports" Episode – "Girl's in the Band" Episode – "D'oh Canada" Episode – "Woo-hoo Dunnit?" Episode – "Marge the Lumberjill" Episode – "Better Off Ned" Episode – "Highway to Well" Episode – "I, Carumbus" Episode – "The Road to Cincinnati" Episode – "Panic on the Streets of Springfield" Episode – "The Man from G.R.A.M.P.A." Episode – "The Last Barfighter" Episode – "Pixelated and Afraid" Episode – "You Won't Believe What This Episode Is About – Act Three Will Shock You!" Episode – "Pretty Whittle Liar" Episode – "Poorhouse Rock" Episode – "Lisa the Boy Scout" Episode – "When Nelson Met Lisa" Episode – "My Life as a Vlog" Episode – "Carl Carlson Rides Again"

Lead character layout

Episode – "Flanders' Ladder" Episode – "From Russia Without Love" Episode – "I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can" Episode – "Go Big or Go Homer" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXX" Episode – "Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?" Episode – "The Miseducation of Lisa Simpson" Episode – "The Way of the Dog" Episode – "Now Museum, Now You Don't" Episode – "A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas" Episode – "Wad Goals" Episode – "Uncut Femmes" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXXII" Episode – "The Wayz We Were" Episode – "A Serious Flanders (Part 2)" Episode – "A Made Maggie" Episode – "The Longest Marge" Episode – "Girls Just Shauna Have Fun" Episode – "Meat Is Murder" Episode – "Habeas Tortoise" Episode – "One Angry Lisa" Episode – "Step Brother from the Same Planet" Episode – "Game Done Changed" Episode – "Bartless" Episode – "Fan-ily Feud" Episode – "Write Off This Episode" Episode – "The Very Hungry Caterpillars"

External links

• Nik Ranieri at the Internet Movie Database
• Nik Ranieri at Wikipedia

Character layout artists

Current character layout artists Jung A Anderson • Michael E. Atniel • Norman P. Auble • Jody Brooks • Oscar Cervantes • Greg Checketts • Joung Kyu Choi • Caroline Cruikshank • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Manny DeGuzman • Lejon Douroux • Adam Dykstra • Jeanne Erickson • Luis Escobar • Natalie J. Fosdick • Yelena Geodakyan • Steven Pierre Gordon • Matthew Herbert • Daniela Hoyos • Alexander Jenson • Jeff Johnson • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Eric Koenig • Lance Kramer • Tina Kügler • Christianna Lang Daley • Eric Lara • Davy Lauterbach • Ely Lester • Michael Ludy • Tom Madrid, Jr. • Debbie Mahan • Tanja Majerus • Drew McPhail • Tuan Nguyen • Rob Oliver • Mary Orario-Natale • Oscar Pangestu • Lena Podesta • Silvia Pompei • Alex Que • Arlyne Ramirez • Nik Ranieri • Thomas E. Richner • Ryan Rivette • Jeremy Robinson • Dustin Romero • Dane Romley • Rick Salonga • Herman Sharaf • Jiyoon Shin • Kamoon Song • Ralph Sosa • Shane K. Sowell • Debbie J. Spafford • Toni Tysen • Paul Wee • Kathy Zielinski Former character layout artists Brad Ableson • John Achenbach • Albert Acosta • Edwin E. Aguilar • Victor E. Almaguer • Bob Anderson • Mike B. Anderson • Tony Anselmo • John Aoshima • Martin Archer • Craig Armstrong • Stephanie Arnett • Marcos Asprec • Orlando Baeza • Timothy Bailey • Brenda Banks • Tibor Belay • Anthony Bell • John Berado • Sue Bielenberg • Mark Borok • Jeannette Bose • Scott Brutz • Tricia Buchanan-Benson • Rufino Camacho • Nathan Cash • Shaun Cashman • Kendis Chase • Shavonne Cherry • Moon Choi • Utit Choomuang • Craig Clark • Jeff Clark • Chris Clements • Liz Climo • Casey Coffey • Mark Colangelo • Pam Cooke • Tom Coppola • Noel Cox • Kirin Daughtery • Tim Decker • Gavin Dell • Susie Dietter • Francis Dinglasan • Orlando Distor • Arthur Ebuen • Ernesto Elicanal • Mark Ervin • Jess Espanola • Dante Fabiero • Matthew Faughnan • Istvan Fellner • Bonnie Fishbon • Julia "Fitzy" Fitzmaurice • Hunilla Fodor • Mike Fontanelli • Julie Forte • Sandra Frame • Bryan Francis • Cynthia French • Adriana Galvez • Philip Garcia • Raul Garcia • Tricia Garcia • Frederick J. Gardner III • Jonathan Gebhart • Brett Gehrs • Ed Ghertner • Neal Goldstein • Pete "Kid Flash" Gomez • Roger Gonzales • Joshua David Gorczyca • Gordon Stanfield Animation • Lucas Gray • Orlando Gumatay • Ted Hanik • Mary Hanley • Joe Healy • Lynne Healy • Colin Heck • Krystal Hernandez • Seth Hippen • Bill Ho • Jennie Hoffer • James Huang • Chris Huicochea • Brian Iles • Kelly Spencer James • Geoffrey Johnson • Ray Johnson, Jr. • Jen Kamerman • Mark Kausler • Seth Kearsley • Ernest Keen • Dean Kelly • Celia Kendrick • Eric S. Keyes • Andy Kim • S.J. Kim • Sooan Kim • Andi Klein • Bert Klein • Julianna Korsborn • Nancy Kruse • Jeff LaFlamme • Ben Lane • Phil Langone • Boowan Lee • Grant Lee • Ashley Lenz • Bob Logan • Jon Lopez • Miguel Lopez • Chris Loudon • Greg Lovell • Matt Luhn • Jeffrey Lynch • Jason Magness • Istvan Majoros • Maryann Malcomb • Anna Maltese • Richard Manginsay • Tammy Manis • Matt Mantel • Michael Marcantel • James Marquez • John Mathot • Ted Mathot • Linda McCall • Gary McCarver • Maeve McGrath • Steve Mealue • Andre Medina • Emily Michels • Pete Michels • Noah Miller • Chris Moeller • Jennifer Moeller • Leo Moran • Jeanette Moreno • Mike Morris • Sarge Morton • Erik Moxcey • Jeff Myers • Kimberly Narsete • Matthew Nastuk • Joey Nilges • James O'Brien • Shannon O'Connor • Eduardo Olivares • Eric Oliver • Kenji Ono • Tyler Pagan • Howy Parkins • Sanjay Patel • John Pearson • Jack Perkins • Raymond S. Persi • Jeff Pidgeon • Dominic Polcino • Mike Frank Polcino • Michael Polvani • Teresa Potter-Heimark • Dan Povenmire • Julius Preite • Natasha Presler-Wicke • James Purdum • Chance Raspberry • Bill Recinos • Dexter Reed • Jordan Reichek • Stephen Reis • Jay Robinson • Art Roman • Christian Roman • Eddie Rosas • Sondra Roy • Aaron Rozenfeld • Alex Ruiz • Fill Marc Sagadraca • David Salvador • Alberto Santiago • Sydney Sata • Matthew Schofield • Andy Schuhler • Melody Severns • Peter Shin • Tony Siruno • Kevin M. Smith • Steve Smith • Ethan Spaulding • Julie Spencer • Eric Stefani • Aimee Steinberger • Jennifer Stillwell • Charlotte Stout • Josh Taback • Betty Tang • Cyndi Tang • Lewis Tate • Noel Taylor • Tommy Tejeda • Gary Terry • Erick T. Tran • Elan Trinidad • Tuck Tucker • Bob Tyler • Brad Vandergrift • Gregg Vanzo • Viorel Voronca • Dusty Wakefield • Jason D. Warnesky • Mark Watts • JC Wegman • Brian Wells • Tom Winkler • Byun Kwang Won • Anthony Wong • Thomas Woodall • Glen Wuthrich • Tomihiro Yamaguchi • Gary Yap • Jung-A Yoo • Young Yoo • Jordan Young One time character layout artists Scott Alberts • Charles Alleneck • Ed Bell • Brad Bird • Clint Bond • Ian Chen • Kevin Davis • Eric Elder • Marvin Ervin • Brad Forbush • Steve Garcia • Klay Hall • Sam Ho • Jeff Howard • Chris Hubbard • Nora Johnson • Jason Katz • Jang Woo Lee • Derek Lestrange • Jeff "Swampy" Marsh • Bob Miller • Chris Mitchell • Angel Pastrana • Charles Ragins • Marc Ratner • Christopher Reccardi • Domingo Rivera • Stephen Robertson • Amy Rychlick • Ericka Schwartz • Elaina Scott • Alan Smart • Chad Stewart • Matt Sullivan • Eric Thomas • Janice Tolentino • Arthur Valencia • Jim Van der Keyl • Barry Vodos • Dave Warren • Celia Weiss Other character layout artists Ivaylo Anguelov • David Au • Abe Audish • Matthias Bauer • Wayne Carlisi • Roberto Casale • Kathi Castillo • Rick Farmiloe • Mike Girard • Rick Hoppe • Jay Jackson • Cathy Jones • Megan Kelly • Craig Kemplin • Jiwook Kim • Erik Kuska • Lois Lee • Joseph Lowe • Carlos Lutterbach • Leonardo Matsuda • Frank Molieri • Steven Muller • David Nam • Phillip Pignotti • Chris Rutkowski • David Silverman • Chris Minki Song • Mike Swofford • Derek Thompson • Kurt Vanzo • Franz Vischer • William Waldman