Which director of Zootopia also directed Wreck-It Ralph?

Rich Moore is the Zootopia director who also directed Wreck-It Ralph.

Moore directed Wreck-It Ralph, Disney’s 2012 comedy about an arcade-game villain who wants to become a hero. He later joined Byron Howard and Jared Bush as a director of Zootopia, released in 2016. That makes him the shared director linking the two films.

Moore’s animation background stretches beyond feature films. He worked on influential television productions including The Simpsons, The Critic, and Futurama before moving into Disney feature animation. His experience with fast comedy, eccentric characters, and detailed fictional worlds suited both the video-game setting of Wreck-It Ralph and Zootopia’s animal metropolis.

The wording can cause confusion because Zootopia has three credited directors, not one: Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Jared Bush. Howard and Bush did not direct Wreck-It Ralph. Moore also returned to the arcade-inspired world with Ralph Breaks the Internet, the 2018 sequel, which he co-directed with Phil Johnston.