The animation company Pixar, indeed the whole industry, is mourning the loss of one of the artists behind Pixar's magic. Animator Joe Ranft died Tuesday in a car accident. He was 45. Charles Solomon ...

Joe Ranft, story supervisor at Pixar Animation Studios for more than a decade and an Oscar-nommed co-writer of “Toy Story” as well as “A Bug’s Life,” died Aug. 16 in a car accident in Mendocino County ...

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

Ed is a many-year veteran of the writing and editing world who enjoys taking sentences apart and putting them back together. He also likes making them from scratch. For more than a quarter of a ...

Pixar suffered a HUGE loss last year when their lead animator, Joe Ranft, died in a car crash. The storyboard for Cars was mostly finished by then, so Cars was largely unaffected, but I wonder how ...

Somehow I missed this, as it apparently happened over a month ago, but I saw no mention of it here and a search for the name turns up nothing.<BR><BR>He's not really a household name, but I'm sure ...