Ralph Eggleston, Academy Award-winning Pixar animator behind many outstanding films, has passed away at age 56. He passed away on August 29th after a lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer.
Eggleston won the animated short film Oscar for writing and directing the 2001 Pixar film “For the Birds.” He worked as an art director on A Bug’s Life (1998), Toy Story 2 (1999), The Incredibles (2004), Cars (2006) and Up (2009). He was a storywriter and visual developer on Monsters, Inc. (2001), a production designer on Finding Nemo (2003) and WALL-E (2008) and a character designer on Ratatouille (2007).
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Eggleston was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in 1965. He attended Sam Houston High School in Lake Charles. He began his animation career at Bill Kroyer’s Kroyer Films working on projects such as the TV pilot Computer Warriors (1990) and the feature FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992).
Eggleston was hired by Pixar in 1992 during the development of the first computer-animated feature that was to become Toy Story, beginning what was to become a long and hugely successful career at the animation studio. He worked as an art director on Toy Story, which was released to universal acclaim and great box office success in 1995. Eggleston went on to win his first Annie Award, for best art direction for his work on the film. His final credited Pixar work was on 2020’s Soul, where he served as a development artist.
Outside of Pixar, Eggleston worked on several Disney animation classics including Aladdin(1992), The Lion King (1994) and Pocahontas(1995).
We give our condolences to the family and friends of Ralph Eggleston.
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